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Sergey Kuryokhin: Lenin was a mushroom / С.Курехин: Ленин был грибом, part 1
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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.
Shared as a delightful example of a famous media hoax.
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