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Lenin and the deadly mushrooms
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10 minutes
Released:
Mar 12, 2019
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Podcast episode
Description
As communism was crumbling in the early 1990s a spoof made for Soviet TV, persuaded some Russians that Vladimir Lenin's personality had been seriously affected by hallucinogenic mushrooms. The mushrooms in question were the deadly poisonous fly agaric fungi which the programme alleged Lenin had eaten whilst in exile in Siberia. Dina Newman has spoken to journalist Sergei Sholokhov who presented the TV spoof.
Photo: two fly agaric toadstools. Copyright: BBC.
Photo: two fly agaric toadstools. Copyright: BBC.
Released:
Mar 12, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode
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