Nikolai Ogolobyak with his Satanist band sacrificed, dismembered, and ate his victims. You need to go to the end of the article to understand what he did in Ukraine.
by Massimo Introvigne
“Bitter Winter” offers apologies when it makes mistakes—even to its worst opponents. Today, we graciously offer an apology to Archpriest Alexander Novopashin, a prominent Russian anti-cultists who heads an organization that was part of the European anti-cult umbrella organization FECRIS until March 2023.
Starting when he was still part of FECRIS, Novopashin offered horrific descriptions of the war and battles in Ukraine, telling us that Satanists fight there and some of them are even cannibals. Novopashin’s stories seemed so extreme that we took the liberty of ridiculing them. Little did we know that they were literally true, and an apology is now in order.
News we received from Russian correspondents and that then surfaced in “The Moscow Times” appeared so strange that we only decided to publish them after they were verified as true by “The Times” of London.
Not that we like it, but we have to accept that Satanist cannibals do fight in the Ukrainian war. A man who not only sacrificed victims to Satan but ritually dismembered, fried, and ate them together with other members of his “cult,” who gathered in his home, fought in an elite battalion for six months. He was seriously wounded and was no longer able to fight, but was pardoned for his bravery in war and is now back home, where he returned this month of November.
His name is Nikolai Ogolobyak. The Satanist cannibal did fight in Ukraine. Novopashin was right—almost. He made only a small mistake. Ogolobyak was recruited in prison as many other criminals were, and served in the notorious Storm Z unit, responsible for some of the most obnoxious crimes against humanity in the war. Storm Z, however, is a Russian, not a Ukrainian unit. It is Putin who massively recruits criminals in jail, promising that in the unlikely case they will survive the war they will be pardoned, no matter what crimes they committed.
Good luck, or perhaps Satan, protected Ogolobyak and he is now a free man, or if you prefer a free Satanist cannibal. Perhaps there are others in the Russian army in Ukraine. We respectfully suggest to Archpriest Novopashin that he should recruit Ogolobyak for his next tour of lectures. He will give the lie to “Bitter Winter” and conclusively prove that there are indeed Satanic cannibals fighting in Ukraine.
Footnote: Although this is admittedly less important than his epoch-making discovery of Satanist cannibals fighting in Ukraine, Novopashin continues to deny he has been to China in 2023 and now claims the letter of invitation published by “Bitter Winter” was not genuine. He also objects that the first picture we published in our article of September 23 did not depict him in China, something the caption did not claim. But he keeps not explaining why, if as he said he has not been to China since 2019, his son Kirill posted on August 17, 2023, on Facebook that “father visited China most recently” (Совсем недавно отец побывал в Китае). “Most recently” cannot be 2019…
Massimo Introvigne (born June 14, 1955 in Rome) is an Italian sociologist of religions. He is the founder and managing director of the Center for Studies on New Religions (CESNUR), an international network of scholars who study new religious movements. Introvigne is the author of some 70 books and more than 100 articles in the field of sociology of religion. He was the main author of the Enciclopedia delle religioni in Italia (Encyclopedia of Religions in Italy). He is a member of the editorial board for the Interdisciplinary Journal of Research on Religion and of the executive board of University of California Press’ Nova Religio. From January 5 to December 31, 2011, he has served as the “Representative on combating racism, xenophobia and discrimination, with a special focus on discrimination against Christians and members of other religions” of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE). From 2012 to 2015 he served as chairperson of the Observatory of Religious Liberty, instituted by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in order to monitor problems of religious liberty on a worldwide scale.
