Personal astrologers and fortune-tellers were kept with them by many prominent politicians and historical figures. Such a sin was noticed at one time for Mao Zedong, Adolf Hitler, Saddam Hussein, Ronald Reagan, Jacques Chirac, etc.
Attachment to occultists also appeared among domestic leaders, starting from the time of Mikhail Gorbachev. According to some testimonies, Boris Yeltsin also often consulted with one person from his entourage who had a talent for looking into the future.
Yeltsin's personal astrologer
General Georgy Rogozin was considered the personal astrologer of the former president. Georgy Georgievich was the deputy head of the presidential security service and a retired FSB officer.
Physicist Eduard Kruglyakov, concurrently chairman of the Commission to Combat Pseudoscience, recalled that during Yeltsin's rule, many psychics and all kinds of visionaries gathered in the highest circles.
Around the first person in the state, various charlatans "fed". Yeltsin was inclined to believe astrologers. The president's patronage is a powerful resource for those who knew how to please him. First on this list was General Rogozin. He himself believed in occult sciences, drew up horoscopes and personally checked all the predictions written for the president. As Rogozin later wrote, he personally did not work with Boris Yeltsin, but influenced what could get to his table.
Yeltsin was rumored to be an unusually superstitious man. Allegedly, horoscopes and astrological tables for him were even made up for guards and drivers. During the exercise of his presidential powers, astrology flourished in the country. There was no shortage of magicians and psychics.
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Yeltsin's personal astrologer was even a member of the committee for the study of paranormal phenomena at the Union of Scientific Societies.
With the help of bioenergy flows, people like Rogozin planned to conduct intelligence activities: to find out the locations of American military bases, "scan" the plans of allies regarding the Russian Federation, etc. General Rogozin also voluntarily included in his list of duties the protection of the president from unsafe bioenergy flows, which it could be directed by the enemies of the state.
Rogozin's fate
In 1996, Georgy Rogozin was relieved of his duties in the Security Service. This happened immediately after his direct boss Alexander Korzhakov fell into disgrace. Korzhakov's opponents contributed to the general's resignation. In civilian life, Rogozin went into business, began to run an investment company and advise the board of SBS-Agro Bank.
The general considered one of his greatest achievements to be the prediction that Putin would soon be president. Former colleagues had different attitudes towards Rogozin's passion for astrology. Many admitted that he was a competent employee, but went overboard with his paranormal hobbies. Others saw him as a calculating businessman who exploited Yeltsin's weaknesses to his advantage.