When individuals heard on the TV that Vladimir Lenin's relations with mushrooms were more confounded than everybody thought, the Soviet group of onlookers was stunned.
In the mid 1990s, a strange TV fabrication separated late-Soviet society.
Izarraetoile History - In 1991, only months previously the fall of the USSR, Soviet groups of onlookers saw a stunning scene on TV program Pyatoe Koleso (The Fifth Wheel). Two genuine looking men – Sergey Sholokhov, the host and his visitor, an underground performer and essayist presented as "government official and on-screen character" Sergey Kurekhin were sitting in a studio talking about the October upheaval of 1917. All of a sudden, Kurekhin offered an extremely intriguing theory – that Vladimir Lenin, the Bolshevik pioneer, was not an individual but rather a mushroom.Mushroom identity
Sergey Kurekhin (1954 - 1996): an artist, a craftsman and the man who made the Lenin Was A Mushroom trick.
"Aside from desert plants, Castaneda portrays mushrooms as unique items with a stimulating impact," Kurekhin proceeded and after that cited Lenin's letter to driving Marxist Georgi Plekhanov: "Yesterday I ate numerous mushrooms and felt sublimely well". Taking note of that Russia's fly-agaric mushroom has stimulating impacts, Kurekhin accepted that Lenin was expending these sorts of mushrooms and had some sort of hallucinogenic, personality modifying knowledge.
It was Lenin who fiddled with so much growths, as well as different Bolsheviks too, Kurekhin guaranteed. "The October transformation was made by individuals who had been devouring psychedelic mushrooms for quite a long time," he said with a poker confront. "Also, Lenin's identity was supplanted with that of a mushroom since fly-agaric character is far more grounded than a human one." Therefore, he finished up, Lenin turned into a mushroom himself.
Trick that went too far
After that shocking articulation, the program continued for an additional 20 minutes, with Kurekhin and Sholokhov refering to perpetual "proof" of Lenin's fondness for mushrooms, beginning from his enthusiasm for gathering organisms and venturing to such an extreme as to think about a photograph of a defensively covered vehicle Lenin once presented on to contagious mycelium.
Sooner or later, both really wanted to chuckle in the wake of expressing that the Soviet mallet and a sickle image was, truth be told, blend of a mushroom and a mushroom picker's blade. Be that as it may, even the chuckling didn't keep a great many individuals from considering the program important.
Dash from the blue
"Had Kurekhin been talking about any other individual, his words would effectively have been expelled as a joke. In any case, Lenin! How might one joke about Lenin? Particularly on Soviet TV," Russian anthropologist Alexei Yurchak said to clarify the artlessness of numerous Soviet watchers.. He underlined that watchers didn't really trust that Lenin was a mushroom – yet they regarded Kurekhin as a genuine specialist, calling the TV and composing letters requesting that the station affirm or disprove the possibility of the Bolshevik pioneer being an organism.
Sergei Sholokhov, who made the program together with Kurekhin, later stated: "The day after the show publicized, a designation of old Bolsheviks went to our neighborhood Communist gathering supervisor who was accountable for philosophy and requested an answer – was Lenin a mushroom or not. She replied with a furious 'No!' asserting that 'a well evolved creature can't be a plant'."
Both himself and Kurekhin were very stunned by such an answer, Sholokhov notes. Then again, Sholokhov may have influenced the story to up – simply like he and Kurekhin (who kicked the bucket in 1996) did with the TV appear.
Soviet absurdism
It was Kurekhin, an amusing hoaxer who thought of the thought. In the late 1980s and mid 1990s the universe of Soviet media was changing, and as columnists appreciated more opportunity, some of them were rambling.
As Kurekhin's dowager Anastasia reviewed, "When we saw a TV appear on the passing of Sergey Yesenin (the Russian artist who submitted suicide in 1925). The host manufactured his "confirmation" that Yesenin had really been executed on completely silly contentions. They indicated photographs of the artist's burial service and stated: "Look, this man is looking along these lines and that man is looking the other way, so it implies that Yesenin was murdered." Kurekhin saw it and said to Anastasia: "You know, you can demonstrate anything utilizing such "proof". Thus he did.
Alexei Yurchak clarifies that the scam and individuals' responses to it was a decent representation of how individuals, regardless of where they live, tend to confide in the media without checking actualities. "In the event that there's something in the media, there must be something to it," Yurchak composed. Kurekhin's incitement was a funny method to demonstrate that it is so natural to encourage individuals with the most odd gibberish on the off chance that you sound sufficiently certain.
Genuine Lenin wasn't exhausting at all too. Perhaps Kurekhin overstated his reverence towards mushrooms however he without a doubt had interests. For example, read an article on his adoration triangle with his better half and courtesan (them two were committed Bolsheviks, coincidentally).
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