What Do You Think Happened To This Witchdoctor Who Walked Across Siberia To Expel Putin's Demon Spirit From The Kremlin?
It’s Russia, he got fucking arrested. If you didn’t know the answer to that then you’re dumber than this Shaman.
(source)–A wandering shaman on a quest to “drive the evil spirit of [Vladimir] Putin from the Kremlin” has been arrested in Siberia by armed police.
Alexander Gabyshev had walked an estimated 1,700 miles from the remote city of Yakutsk towards Moscow, attracting an eccentric group of acolytes and appearing at rare protests in regional Russian cities, before his arrest on Thursday.
Police in Yakutia confirmed the arrest but did not say why he had been detained. Supporters believed he may face charges for his calls to overthrow the government.
Gabyshev’s march across the country became a viral online curiosity as anger over flawed elections triggered the largest protests in Russia’s capital for years. The arrest of his driver in the city of Ulan-Ude helped spark a demonstration by hundreds of people there, and hundreds more came to hear him speak in the city of Chita.
Fucking Putin man. No threat too small to lock someone up in the Gulags. This fucking Shaman had walked 1700 miles across Siberia. That’s the same as walking from Chicago all the way to Phoenix, Arizona on a whim and he wasn’t even close to done.
That was the full route. A starting point so far North that Greenland is included in the screen grab and so far East that Sarah Palin could see him from her backyard. A walk that would be almost a 3rd of the way across the entire planet. All because you think Putin has an evil demon spirit. Even if this guy can perform an exorcism on Putin, you can’t go on tour announcing that you’re walking to Moscow to perform said exorcism. I mean Putin is an evil guy. He’s had this evil demon spirit for a while now. He clearly likes it. He’s not going to let some witch from over by Alaska come and just take it from him. You gotta be a sneaky witch to get at Putin. Something I would expect a wise old witchdoctor to know.
What surprised me was Putin’s response. Not that he had him eliminated, but that it was a public arrest. You’re Vladimir Putin. The baddest dictator in the game. Say one bad word about him and you’re arrested. Two bad words and you’re assassinated. Yet he just tells the world he arrested some silly Shaman from East bumfuck Asia? Why? He’s walking across Siberia. Make that guy “disappear” and tell people a “bear ate him” since he’s walking across Siberia, wink wink. Avoid the out and out blatant backlash that comes along with arresting a nobody for nothing and throw your hands up and act surprised and saddened that a guy who wants to do an exorcism on the Kremlin vanished somehow on his patriotic journey. I can’t tell if this means that Putin has the country more under his thumb or if he’s slipping. Either way, RIP to the modern Rasputin. A true patriot who was willing to walk across the continent like a Russian Forest Gump.