PSYCHIATRY in
The FREE ZONE:
Alex's Story

Alex worked the greater part of his life in the film industry, at the studio named after Dovzhenko, and had a great many acquaintances in different layers of society. At the beginning of the 1990s he was very interested in esoteric literature, which flooded the counters of Kiev shops. Having read «Dianetics» in 1993, Alex realized that Dianetics was not simply some esoteric study accessible only to selected people, but that that book could give him real help in life. Using the address at the end of book, Alex went to the Moscow Dianetics center. He discovered there, that a man who organized Dianetics seminars in Kiev was Vyacheslav Shapkarin. Without great reflection, Alex completed his initial Dianetics course in Moscow and got back to Kiev.

At the end of 1993, Alex met Shapkarin. Since that time, his life began to turn unwittingly into a nightmare. His state is described in this story, which I have written in the form of interview.

Alex, tell me about the nightmare. You tried so many times; just now, it is right time to get this sorted out and finalized for your self.

Everything up until that time is clear in my memory. I checked with other people and I have it right. I do not worry, even Shapkarin and other similar to him could brag about what happened before 1993. Perhaps, it is business or a game for them. But everything that happened after this meeting, you will not believe. I cannot believe that it happened to me. And there are not sufficient words with which to communicate my state. I am afraid of these people very much. In spite of the fact, that I threatened to break their legs, I am afraid that they will pursue me. You wanted me to write this history, but I am quivering each time when I try to think about it. I know that they are enormous criminals — Shapkarin, Titarenko, Zemlyakov and all the others who are included in this mafia. Moreover, I want to see them jailed. They had broken me, you understand! I had been broken!

Alex, if you do not tell your story then people will not know the truth. They will think the world to be rosy and fluffy and they will continue to get in networks to these scoundrels.

Well, well. Everything started in that disastrous year of 1997. Shapkarin went to study under Nikita Blikov in Moscow, who was taught by Erica Hauri. They both went — Shapkarin and Titarenko —for study there in Moscow. Yes, it was somewhere in the summer of 1997, when they got back. I do not know who taught them, but it is not important. Titarenko started to work with me, calling everything that he was doing with me an advanced Dianetic auditing. I do not remember what there was in his «auditing». You understand, everything was as if in a terrible sleep and I remember nothing — yet, something gets out sometimes.

All right, let’s take one thing at a time, Alex. What did he do with you? What?

I remember that they used me as a marionette. He pressed on all my buttons [weak points, which when affected cause a man to react, and usually to get sick — author’s comment]. All possible and impossible buttons. At times I was ready to bust this Titarenko, I was ready to break his legs, but he held me, pressing on my buttons stronger and stronger. And I do not remember farther what there was. I was said to have more than twenty hours of this procedure, but I do not remember — I had no time, nothing. However, when I became better, Titarenko was scared of me. You know, I am strong and when I explode with indignation… Well, I understood. So, Titarenko stopped the so-called auditing, and what then?

And then, this psychiatrist Shapkarin came up to me and with a smile on the face said: «Well, I understand you; I do not like Titarenko either. He is somewhat mad. Actually, Alex, you need ARC break auditing. The fact of the matter is that everything that has happened to you, usually takes place in auditing.» They worked as a pair. I was their experimental rabbit, as were hundreds of others who got processing through them. This lasted from 1997 to 1999. Do you understand? Two years of full torture! And Titarenko behaved like a mad man. Once he collected a large seminar, inviting esoteric people, Buddhists there, and declared that he was Buddha. He said that he was in the advanced Scientology organization in England, that he had obtained the state of Clear, and this was the state of Buddha. But a basic muck, which they did with this psychiatrist – controlled people, tormented them and pressed on their buttons. So, those who were stronger and clever left. And those who remained... I was ready to kill this Titarenko, and he knew this.

Alex, what interest did Shapkarin and Titarenko have in you? I understand they experimented, but what else?

At first, they needed my connections. Shapkarin knew about my connections — those connections that I do not have anymore. I had been working my whole life in the film industry. I certainly knew some people. Then, when Shapkarin and Titarenko understood that they could not get anything more from me, they were simply afraid of me. They were afraid of my reaction. Moreover, I told Titarenko that I would break his legs, and he was scared - very scared. Shapkarin tried to calm me and keep me in check, while Titarenko pressed my buttons.

What else can you remember?

Well, I remember Titarenko’s uncle died in 1998. I know Titarenko worked with him. He said he audited him. Titarenko said that his uncle died from a stroke when he was 54 years old. And the uncle left a house to Titarenko, where he works to this day. At that time, students and preclears as slaves were repairing it. I remember that he compelled them to do it - he could not do it in another way. Around him there must be only slaves, whose will would be under his control. In addition, Titarenko asked Shapkarin to record his testimony that he had abandoned the Church of Scientology. Shapkarin did it, and I was the witness of that. In general, Shapkarin was a complete coward and he was afraid of Titarenko. Titarenko added comments to the tape: Shapkarin was allegedly repressed by the employees of HCH [Humanitarian Centre of Hubbard, which was in Moscow —author’s comment]. Also, Titarenko bragged about his connections. He said his relatives worked in the Special Forces. He wanted everyone to be afraid of him.

And what happened then?

Then a nightmare proceeded. At the end of 1997, when Titarenko already could not confront me and avoided my communication in any way he could (and I was ready to kill him), this psychiatrist Shapkarin came to me and said that all my problems had happened because I did not complete their course, which they called QHS [course «Qualified Hubbard Scientologist» —author’s comment] and if I passed it, everything would be all right and that I needed to be on this course. I said No naturally, but he did something, I do not remember exactly what it was. I remember that he talked: «Alex, you have known me since 1990; I am just a little screw in this giant machine full blast. For my sake — go on this course.» After this, I had the fixed idea: «I must go on this course». And I thought only about it. And most frightful, I went to this course. And when I did it, I found out that it was not two weeks, but one year of permanent torture.

And what, did you simply go to this course?

Yes. Their course cost 250 bucks, but I did not have enough money by that time. You know, I was not rich, but I had been a man of sufficiency. When I left the film industry, I carried on business, and I always had money. However, by that time I had lost everything. Shapkarin persuaded me to come even though I did not have the money, but when I stuck for some time at this course, Titarenko turned me out of his house which is where the course was taught, and I went simply mad— I had the fixed idea I had to complete this course but Titarenko required money for it.

And what happened? What was he doing?

This period of my life is as though it were entirely erased from my memory. So snatches swim out. Titarenko rang me and threatened, pressed on my buttons: «I will destroy you! You will crawl to me on all fours and you will beg pardons!» My wife left me and took a child. You know I am now alone, and my apartment is empty. I know that this somehow concerns Titarenko. My former wife married an American and went to America. And most of all I was crushed when in those days I looked somehow out the window and saw an old schoolmate. I knew he was a drunkard, but I could not even think that it would be so: he was a vagabond, standing near the rubbish chute and staring at me. It seems to me, it also somehow concerns Titarenko and Shapkarin. It was all… because of those things I was finally broken, and this nightmare proceeded to the end of 1999. Later in some strange way, I went to Zemlyakov. Someone said to me that Titarenko was his enemy, and Shapkarin was his friend, and offered to let me do the QSH at Zemlyakov’s organization. Well and there — you remember — we met each other. In 2000 Zemlyakov left Kishinev forever, he had a problem with Titarenko. Anatoly sent me to Kremenchug to a Scientology mission. There I began to do a standard ethics program, and you know, after writing out overts and withholds [one of procedures of spiritual confession in Scientology —author’s comment] Irealized that I was still alive. And I felt enormous relief! I indeed woke up and began to do something. You know, I described only a little part of what really happened. I hope I will remember everything some day, but I am not ready now. And you know, do you remember this child psychiatrist Yuriy Polienko, who worked together with Shapkarin? Two years ago, I met him. He said that the experiments were still going on, and that Shapkarin was still working with Korotkonozkin — his «former» leader at a psychiatric department.

This is quite an interview. It seems to me in the story of Alex that the horror that he had to live through speaks even through the printed word. And how many more people were duped with promises of cheap service by the «Free Zone» organizers?

To understand the magnitude of this fraud, it is necessary to know who the true organizers are. What sort of person would it take to break people, pump them for money and then by any means get rid of their victims?