Anatoly Fomenko is not unique by any means. The boredom, forced bullshit, and strict conformance requirements of the developed socialism phase of USSR gave birt

Anatoly Fomenko is not unique by any means. The boredom, forced bullshit, and strict conformance requirements of the developed socialism phase of USSR gave birth to the Soviet New Age of a sort. Some people invented spiritual practices and started their own cults, others turned to ufology, conspiracy theories and writing "new histories", like Fomenko or Yuri Petukhov, the rather infamous pulp fiction writer and self-described anthropologist who claimed that all people on Earth descended from Ruses and all languages are developed from Russian. It peaked in early 90s in Russia, Ukraine, and other post-Soviet republics, ending up in a massive wave of new-age cults and pulp fiction, but Fomenko has been particularly persistent.