Sergey Kuryokhin: Lenin was a mushroom / С.Курехин: Ленин был грибом, part 1
Why Hacker News recommends it
Shared as a delightful example of a famous media hoax.
What it is
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.
Recommended by 2 HN commenters across 2 different months, 2016 to 2018.
What Hacker News said
Recommends maheart · 2016-06 · on “Lenin was a mushroom”
Haha, hilarious, thanks for sharing. I had to see this for myself. Source: Video, part1: [this video] Video, part2: [LINK] The "revelation" occurs at 2m36s: [LINK]
Recommends yesenadam · 2018-11 · on “How Vladimir Lenin Became a Mushroom (2017)”
Haha that's awesome! Part I: [this 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 fac
Cites wimagguc · 2017-12 · on “How Vladimir Lenin Became a Mushroom”
I learned about this video from HN last year or so. The relevant discussion is here: [LINK] ...and the Youtube links still work too! [this video] [LINK]