The popular Bulgarian blind seer predicted that Putin would become the “master of the world” in 2025, claims the “Komsomolskaya Pravda.” Only, she didn’t.
March 7, 2025
On February 20, the mass-circulation Russian newspaper “Komsomolskaya Pravda” (which is also distributed through a “European edition” in nearby countries) announced that, “The world-famous Bulgarian clairvoyant [Baba] Vanga predicted what awaits Russia and its leader Vladimir Putin this year.” Alluding to the recent developments after Trump’s election, the newspaper reported that, “The clairvoyant [Vanga] was confident that Russian President Vladimir Putin would become the ‘master of the world’ in the coming year.” “In 2025, according to the clairvoyant,” continued the “Komsomolskaya Pravda”, “the conflict in Europe will destroy the population of the continent… The clairvoyant said that three giants would unite: Russia, India and China. Regarding our country, Vanga noted that Russia would again become a great empire, first of all an empire of the spirit.”
Other Russian media spread Baba Vanga’s alleged glorious predictions for Putin and Russia, referencing the British tabloid “Metro.”
It is not the first time that Baba Vanga is mobilized by Russian propaganda. “Bitter Winter” reported a similar campaign in 2022, and readers may refer to our article published in that year for background information about Baba Vanga.
The blind seer Baba Vanga (1911–1996) was an interesting character, a “Bulgarian Nostradamus” first repressed and then sponsored by the Bulgarian Communist Party.
Bulgarian academic scholars of Baba Vanga such as social anthropologist Galia Valtchinova noted that the more than 7,000 cards preserved in archives in Bulgaria with the seer’s predictions rarely if ever refer to political events.
Most people consulted Vanga about their health and personal issues rather than world politics or future events. They sought short-term predictions, and Vanga obliged while also advising them to see top Bulgarian doctors, some of whom were her friends.
Vanga’s alleged predictions about world events come from a book written by Russian poet and academic Valentin Mitrofanovich Sidorov (1932–1999), whose most popular edition, heavily edited after his death, was published in 2009. Although Sidorov, who derived many of his ideas from Theosophy, was an important figure in Russia’s esoteric milieus, and claimed to have interviewed Vanga, there is a consensus among scholars that the political prophecies he attributed to the Bulgarian seer were in fact a figment of his poetic imagination.
Additionally, not even in Sidorov’s book are Putin or the year 2025 mentioned. The only Vladimir quoted (and not in all editions) is clearly Vladimir the Great, the king who Christianized the Kievan Rus around the year 1000, canonized by the Orthodox Church as a saint. It is also difficult to know what Sidorov really wrote, as his book was reprinted, with changes, several times. We can only say that he attributed to Vanga predictions about a glorious future of Russia, which is not surprising given Sidorov’s own nationalism, and mentioned dates around 2040 for future significant events (but not 2025).
Since Baba Vanga remains popular in many countries, her mobilization by Russian propaganda can be easily explained. But the prophecies are apocryphal and this shameless exploitation is not Baba Vanga’s fault.
Source: bitterwinter.org
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