'Jesus of Siberia' jailed for abusing followers at isolated mountain-top cult
- Posted on July 1, 2025
- By The Daily Star
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'Jesus of Siberia' jailed for abusing followers at isolated mountain-top cult
After losing his job as a traffic officer in 1990, Sergei Torop, 64, claimed to have been reborn as Vissarion and went on to form a cult that replaces Christmas with a feast on his birthday
