In that marvellously bonkers publication Pravda, it is being reported that the Ukrainian sports authorities are blaming their lack of medals at a gymnastic event on the fact their Russian rivals brought in people with paranormal abilities to sabotage the Ukrainian competitors.
According to the federation’s governing body, evil-minded Russians hired psychics, people with extrasensory abilities in order to paralyze free will of Ukrainian gymnasts during competitions. Such statement of the federation received wide publicity among Ukrainian media sources, reports PrimaNews.
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The federation also informs that “Russian mobs” brought fifteen paranorms to Kiev, including famous Russian medium Alan Chumak. They were seated in VIP seats on the stadium and somehow paralyzed the will of Ukrainian sportswomen; that is why the latter lost.
To hell with the gymnastics! If they can do such things, then they simply must organise special events in which paranormals compete to see who can paralyse the will of the other first! 
No Officer, I am not drunk, I had my will paralysed by Russian paranormals!
I’m quaking in my boots!
And I thought that chess was the only sport like this.
Proof once again that, no matter how far we go into the 21st century, Russia is and remains a medieval society. Just substitute psychics with witchcraft — same thing.
Makes me wonder how we ever won the 70 yrs war!!
“Makes me wonder how we ever won the 70 yrs war!!”
We didn’t actually, they “paranormalised” us into believing it.
Given that fawning specials about Nostradamus are broadcast on the major “educational” cable channels in the United States and Canada are routinely broadcast. And given the “New Age” religion, or philosophy or whatever the hell it is that is practiced nowadays. Do we in the west really have grounds to criticize Russian mysticism from a position of cultural superiority?
de Havilland’s post hit the right tone, but David Crawford saw fit to use it as a base to criticise Russian mysticism. As Steven pointed out, we’ve got no place to stand.