The Bulgarian mystic’s doomy predictions continue to grab headlines in Albania and elsewhere – even though many seem fabricated and sometimes appear to serve Russian geopolitical narratives.
It also spreads beyond the Balkans, but it does follow a political agenda.
@mapto@feddit.bg@balkanika “I checked it out in the same way as I did with Uncle Vanya, only I couldn’t go myself, so I asked two journalists (they asked not to be named) to do it. One of them asked his acquaintances to introduce him to Vanga. A Bulgarian fellow journalist, clearly connected to the authorities, questioned his new friend and went with him to the bathhouse, then took him to Vanga. And she gave him the whole set of stories she had prepared.” 4/5
@mapto@feddit.bg@balkanika "The only thing she guessed correctly was that he had a scar on his scrotum. The journalist was stunned at first, but then he understood why his colleague had invited him to the bathhouse…
As for predictions, everyone remembers the ones that came true. But even more did not come true! For example, Vanga predicted to Alexander Bovin that the USSR would send troops to Chile. Obviously, the Bulgarian secret services made a mistake in their international forecasts…" 5/5
@mapto@feddit.bg @balkanika “I checked it out in the same way as I did with Uncle Vanya, only I couldn’t go myself, so I asked two journalists (they asked not to be named) to do it. One of them asked his acquaintances to introduce him to Vanga. A Bulgarian fellow journalist, clearly connected to the authorities, questioned his new friend and went with him to the bathhouse, then took him to Vanga. And she gave him the whole set of stories she had prepared.” 4/5
@mapto@feddit.bg @balkanika "The only thing she guessed correctly was that he had a scar on his scrotum. The journalist was stunned at first, but then he understood why his colleague had invited him to the bathhouse…
As for predictions, everyone remembers the ones that came true. But even more did not come true! For example, Vanga predicted to Alexander Bovin that the USSR would send troops to Chile. Obviously, the Bulgarian secret services made a mistake in their international forecasts…" 5/5