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Sergey Kuryokhin: Lenin was a mushroom / С.Курехин: Ленин был грибом, part 1

xox · 62.7K views · 2010-05-17 · 8:03

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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.

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Shared as a delightful example of a famous media hoax.

Recommended by 2 HN people across 2 months · HN mentions 2016–2018

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yesenadam · 2018-11 · Recommendation

Haha 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 The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross (1970) argued...that stories of early Christianity originated in an Essene clandestine cult centred around the use of Psilocybin mushroom, and that the New Testament is the coded record of this shamanistic cult. ...that the authors of the Christian gospels did not understand the Essene thought..[that] the Christian tradition is based on a misunderstanding of the scrolls. ...that Jesus in the Gospels was in fact a code for a type of hallucinogen, the Amanita muscaria, and that Christianity was the product of an ancient 'sex-and-mushroom' cult."[0] Well, I learnt since that Santa Claus is a mushroom myth[1], and the soma of the Vedas (the earliest Hindu texts) sure sounds like mushrooms.. edit: Added last paragraph and..Ok downvoter, care to explain? Maybe you have some good reason, but it just makes me dislike HN when people downvote for apparently no reason but..well, who knows. [0] [LINK] [LINK] [1] I read about that in Scientific American 20ish years ago. Some interesting leads here: [LINK]

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maheart · 2016-06 · Recommendation

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]

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wimagguc · 2017-12 · Reference

I learned about this video from HN last year or so. The relevant discussion is here: [LINK] ...and the Youtube links still work too! [VIDEO] [LINK]

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