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Celerity

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Thu Oct 2, 2025, 02:06 PM Oct 2025

Putin scientist claims West will use a virus to kill most humans



It’s all part of an LGBT conspiracy to depopulate the planet, according to a friend of the president

https://www.thetimes.com/world/europe/article/russia-conspiracy-theory-putin-science-s05n6j85p

https://archive.ph/Fjjpn


Mikhail Kovalchuk, described as a close friend of President Putin, claimed robots would be able to do most work better than people

A Russian scientist who is close to President Putin has told a forum of schoolteachers in Moscow that the West is planning to exterminate the majority of the Earth’s population, leaving a tiny elite whose needs will be serviced by robots. The comments by Mikhail Kovalchuk, the head of Russia’s Kurchatov nuclear research institute, highlight the type of extreme conspiracy theories that critics say influence Kremlin policy.

Kovalchuk, 77, alleged that western countries were plotting to unleash a deadly virus to reduce the number of people on Earth. He also claimed the West was using LGBT and child-free ideologies to cut populations because robots would soon be able to work better and more effectively.



“The West … understands that a huge number of people are becoming unnecessary. They have begun to prepare for a population reduction,” he told the Forum of Class Teachers, a Kremlin-backed organisation. “They introduced the LGBT agenda and for those who didn’t go along with it, they offered a second option — the child-free family. It’s working brilliantly. In a generation or two, there’ll be no continuation of their bloodlines. Only a small elite, the ones they actually need, will remain.”

“As for the rest — the people they don’t even see as human — they’ll be eliminated with biological weapons. A virus or something like that with a 90 per cent mortality rate will come along and mow them down,” he said. The Kremlin has outlawed both the promotion of LGBT rights and any depiction of the upside of not having children, deeming them threats to Russia’s future. It recently designated the non-existent “international Satanism movement” as a terrorist organisation.

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Putin scientist claims West will use a virus to kill most humans (Original Post) Celerity Oct 2025 OP
And with the geniuses that trump employs Turbineguy Oct 2025 #1
Sounds like the ideas of miller, theal, vouht, muck........ Clouds Passing Oct 2025 #2
It's a theory popular in maga since Covid, usually blaming WEF and Soros Bernardo de La Paz Oct 2025 #3
Putin could be somewhat right for once ShadesOfBlue Oct 2025 #4
Officially, there are two countries... ret5hd Oct 2025 #5

Bernardo de La Paz

(60,320 posts)
3. It's a theory popular in maga since Covid, usually blaming WEF and Soros
Thu Oct 2, 2025, 02:42 PM
Oct 2025

WEF = World Economic Forum, the Davros gathering of the elites.

ShadesOfBlue

(101 posts)
4. Putin could be somewhat right for once
Thu Oct 2, 2025, 02:50 PM
Oct 2025

Elon Musk makes a point of displaying his displeasure when he comes across info about how most African nations are part of the few countries whose population growths will explode when most of the nations with people of European and Asian ancestry will decline. He is a bit obsessive and it would not surprise me if he tries to do something about that.

Btw the main reason he hates Bill Gates is because Gates has played a huge hand in helping African nations overcome certain diseases that kept their population numbers more contained so to speak. And Gates has been doing it free of charge. Musk despises any assistance by non-blacks to black people in Sub Saharan Africa.

ret5hd

(22,588 posts)
5. Officially, there are two countries...
Thu Oct 2, 2025, 05:44 PM
Oct 2025

with viable stores of smallpox virus. Those countries are USA and USSR. Unofficially…who knows.

There is a specific variant called hemorrhagic smallpox that is about 100% fatal.

Smallpox is about the most contagious virus there is. An outbreak in the USA would sweep the country in just a couple or three weeks, with nobody born since the late ’70s having any immunity.

I have long feared that USSR uses smallpox against us (and the world).

Very limited vaccines are available in the USA, generally for military, lab workers, etc. But I would bet better than even money there are SOME who can get/already got it (musk, thiel, trump, etc and family)

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