In 1989, as the USSR was crumbling, he made a series of broadcasts on Soviet television in which he attempted mass hypnosis at the behest of the government in an effort to subdue the populace.

[1] Around 2010 he was again performing mass healing rituals in front of large audiences, although he never returned to his former popularity.

[2] Born in Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine, USSR, Kashpirovsky graduated from the Vinnytsia Medical Institute in 1962.

Among other things, he was shown to allegedly remove the pain of two patients who remained conscious during abdominal surgery by addressing them by teleconferencing.

The sessions also called for a restored faith in the government and Communism, in an effort to hypnotize viewers into rallying behind the Soviet cause.