Lenin Was a Mushroom

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It was a highly influential televised spoof by Soviet composer Sergey Kuryukhin and reporter Sergey Sholokhov. It was the first transmission on Leningrad Television on January 17, 1991. The deception took the form of an interview on the Television Program (Pyatoe Koleso). In the interview, Koryukhin, impersonating a historian, described his findings that Vladimir Lenin consumed large amounts of psychedelic mushrooms and finally became a mushroom himself.