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Sergey Kuryokhin: Lenin was a mushroom / С.Курехин: Ленин был грибом, part 1
Part one of Sergey Kuryokhin's 1991 live Soviet TV hoax in which he claimed that Lenin was a mushroom. With subtitles, it shows how a surreal absurd theory can be made to seem proven on live television.
Why HN readers recommended it
Shared as a delightful example of a famous media hoax.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- xox
- Topic
- soviet tv hoax
- Format
- comedy
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 3
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2016–2018
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From the original HN conversations
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Haha, hilarious, thanks for sharing. I had to see this for myself. Source: Video, part1: [VIDEO] Video, part2: [LINK] The "revelation" occurs at 2m36s: [LINK]
maheart on Hacker News · 2016-06
In Lenin was a mushroomHaha that's awesome! Part I: [VIDEO] As a kid I read a book which seriously made the case that Jesus was a magic mushroom - the English archaeologist and Dead Sea Scrolls scholar John M Allegro's The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross (1970) "Allegro's book …
yesenadam on Hacker News · 2018-11
In How Vladimir Lenin Became a Mushroom (2017)
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