Putin has ditched his paranoid security chief. Here are 5 of the wackiest things Nikolai Patrushev has said.

It’s not just Russia’s territorial integrity that the West is looking to undermine.

In 2021, Patrushev’s spokesperson informed the press that he would soon be reporting to Putin on Western attacks on Russian moral and spiritual values, as well as attempts to impose “alien ideals and norms” that would undermine social stability.  

Among those are professing LGBT+ values — another attempt by the “golden billion” (see point 2) to rid the world of “superfluous people.”

Using NGOs as agents, the West targeted vulnerable groups in Russia, such as ethnic minorities and religious groups, with the aim of “destabilizing the sociopolitical situation, and discrediting the Russian authorities.”

Another instrument was students, lured to the West with grants and exchange programs. From the United States, “they return as agitators ready to carry out so-called democratic transformations and prepare the ground for the implementation of ‘color revolution’ scenarios,” Patrushev told a security meeting in the Armenian capital Yerevan. 

Earlier, Patrushev warned of attempts to recruit Russian youth by foreign cults professing neo-paganism, occultism and Satanism.