January 31 marks the 110th anniversary of the birth of the famous Bulgarian seer Vanga. As you know, first President of Kalmykia, sixth President of FIDE Kirsan Ilyumzhinov was personally acquainted with the legendary clairvoyant. He visited her in Bulgaria many times.
Kirsan Ilyumzhinov said that at one of the meetings he asked Vanga to pray for the souls of Kalmyks who did not return to their native land after deportation.
- I remember December 1993, when I came to visit her in Bulgaria. She was standing by the flowers and talking to someone. I went up to her and she said: “How cold they are!"
I asked: "Who are?" She replied: “Your Kalmyk people. What happened to them? I said that exactly 50 years ago, on December 28, 1943, our Kalmyk people were illegally repressed, deported, exiled to Siberia and many did not return home.
She said: "I see them, they are cold, and they want to go home." I asked Baba Vanga to always pray for Kalmyk souls who did not return to their native Kalmyk lands. Therefore, Baba Vanga became an honorary citizen of Kalmykia, - said Kirsan Ilyumzhinov.
He remembered how he decided to move abroad, but before that, he went to Vanga to ask where the business would be better: in the USA or in Switzerland. She told him that he would return to work in his homeland, and foresaw that oil would be found near Kalmykia.