Allan Vladimirovich Chumak was a Russian faith healer who came to prominence at the height of Gorbachev's Perestroika. When he appeared on television, his fans would hold jars of water next to their televisions in the hope that the water would be able to cure disease. At the height of his fame, he had a regular early .Oct 10, 2017 Allan Chumak, a self-styled "distance healer" whose televised sessions drew in millions of viewers seeking a cure for their ills in the years before the Soviet collapse, has died in Moscow.
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