Let's solve another riddle of Internet slang - why Lenin is a mushroom. Everything is simple here. During the years of perestroika, the TV program "The Fifth Wheel" was broadcast. And in the plot of May 17, 1991, musician Sergei Kuryokhin and journalist Sergei Sholokhov tried to prove to everyone that Lenin is really a mushroom. Of course, it was satire, but how skillfully they instilled their myth into viewers! A quote from Lenin's letter was quoted: “Yesterday I ate mushrooms, I felt amazing,” it was said that “ninel” (Lenin on the contrary) is a French mushroom dish, images of an armored car and Lenin were compared with images of mycelium and fly agaric. Most importantly, the style of presentation was confusing, confused, and consisted of complex scientific formulations. Such manipulations helped create a sense of believability.
This story showed how great the influence of the media and television in particular on people. Indeed, after the skillful satire of Kuryokhin and Sholokhov, some people believed and tried to find other evidence that Lenin was a mushroom.
TV program "The Fifth Wheel", May 17, 1991, hosted by Sergey Sholokhov.
Sholokhov: Good evening. Today we are opening the "Wheel" with a new heading, it is called "Sensations and Hypotheses". We will continue to conduct it with Sergei Kurekhin, a famous politician and film actor. We will have different characters to participate in our program - actors, musicians, composers, deputies and …
Kuryokhin: Scientists.
Sholokhov: … scientists, magicians, wizards, well, in general, everyone will entertain us. AND…
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Kuryokhin: And the purpose of this column is a completely new approach to the well-known historical events of our country and the whole world in general and well-known facts.
Sholokhov: Here is one of these facts, which sheds light on one of the secrets of the October Revolution, and served as a pretext for our today's program. Sergei Kuryokhin, a well-known politician, has these facts, and I remind you of this with great pleasure …
Kuryokhin: Thank you.
Sholokhov: … who recently returned from Mexico.
Kuryokhin: First of all, I would like to say first of all that this is not one of the secrets of the October Revolution. And what I will talk about today is simply the main secret of the October Revolution. Because not everything is so simple in the revolution, and I was always surprised by something in it, and some kind of mystery still remained a mystery. In recent years, I have practically only dealt with this topic, that is, I have dealt only with the secret October Revolution. And my paths led me to Mexico, from where I recently returned and brought back absolutely fantastic materials that, in my opinion, deserve publication and general review.
The fact is that while in one of the main Mexican temples, I looked at the frescoes for a long time and found that most of the frescoes are dedicated to some event in the history of Mexico, and which painfully reminded me of our October Revolution. The same emaciated people, armed with primitive tools of labor, who overthrow some kind of government - it's all very similar, you know?
And here is such a similarity - it somehow engendered some doubts in me. I presented this wonderful October Revolution, which I love very much and to which I am in awe. This is a truly grandiose event, because … since I am closely associated with cinema, I imagine that it was not in vain that it inspired many filmmakers, many generations of filmmakers, it was not for nothing that they constantly turned to the topic of revolution, because this is a grandiose spectacle, fantastic, not so many books were written in vain. This is a great event.
And these frescoes here - they were simply identical to what I dreamed in my dreams. And in general - what I was thinking about when these people, exhausted by overwork, driven to despair, armed with sticks, primitive tools of labor, rushed and seized the Winter Palace. And then for the first time I had the idea that this spectacle, such a grandiose - it was so easy to do it was impossible. You see, it had to be seen beforehand. That is, a person, some kind of genius mind, I would even say - a super-genius mind, he saw these pictures in front of him and then he tried to materialize them.
While still a student at the Institute of Culture at one time, I was very fond of the works of the American-Mexican philosopher and writer, also still little known in our country - Carlos Castaneda - about the way of learning the Navajo Indians. This is a special way of knowing, these are the Indians who accepted certain things. In this case, it is a certain cactus and a certain type of mushroom. And they took a certain path, the path of life …
Sholokhov: Did this potion coincide?
Kuryokhin: One minute. Now I will tell you what, in fact, this potion is. This is a Mexican cactus, its Latin name is "Lophophora Williamsi". It contains some hallucinogenic drugs that cause strong hallucinations, and thanks to which a person can see absolutely incredible pictures, very vividly and colorfully. These paintings are usually very massive and very global.
Sholokhov: Spectacular.
Kuryokhin: And very spectacular, that's right. There are several types of cacti. The closest thing to Lophophora Williamsi is Turbinikarpus. This is a species that also has narcotic properties, intoxicating properties, but there was some oddity in the fact that "Lophophora" and "Turbinikarpus" are things that did not have cephalic. Only melocactus, a certain type of melocactus, and some types of discocactus could have cephaly. Then, then …
I’ll explain it now to make it clearer for you. Here, pay attention: here is a photograph of Lenin in his study. Look here. See? None of the researchers paid attention to the strange object that was next to the inkwell. Here he is, you see, on top he has such a tip …
Sholokhov: Reminds us of a small flying saucer.
Kuryokhin: Well, roughly speaking, in general, yes. But it is striking that Lenin, the man to whom millions of monographs are devoted, is studied every day of his life, of work, and all scientists, researchers, ignored this very strange subject. He is in almost all the photographs where Lenin is in his study. Look - next to the inkwell.
Sholokhov: Here, exactly the same there.
Kuryokhin: Yes. I want to tell you what it is. It reminds … More precisely, at first it seemed to me that it reminds melocactus, which I spoke about, with a cephalic on top. The formation of cephaly in melocactus is still a mysterious thing, due to its incomprehensible function. This is when, for no reason at all, a felt hat begins to grow on top of a cactus, which slowly closes it. So, Lophophora Williamsi, which we talked about, does not have this felt slipper. But "Turbinikarpus" - this is an intermediate stage between "Lophophora" and melocactus - already has the rudiments of the appearance of cephaly. Do you understand, yes? And this cactus about which … (the phone rings) now, wait a second, sorry …
(into telephone receiver) Be kind, later. There is very little time now, sorry.
What is on Lenin's desk very well resembles "Turbinikarpus" in the form in which it manifests narcotic properties. Farther…
Sholokhov: That is, the thought arises that it was not in vain that Lenin kept it on his desk …
Kuryokhin: Yes. That is, it is something …
Sholokhov: Narcotic properties.
Kuryokhin: No, not narcotic properties. This is some kind of model of something that we do not yet know about, and which I will talk about a little further. Farther. While reading the huge correspondence of Vladimir Ilyich, absolutely gigantic, with different people, I once came across a phrase from Lenin's letter to Plekhanov. The phrase sounds like this: "Yesterday I ate mushrooms, I felt amazing."
Do you understand what's the matter?
Sholokhov: Not very good yet.
Kuryokhin: The fact is that, in addition to cacti, Castaneda also has permanently functioning mushrooms, special mushrooms that have the same properties as Lophophora Williamsi. That is, purely hallucinogenic properties that can cause a person's reaction, which I told you about. That is, gigantic scenes begin to sweep before his eyes - scenes of greatness, scenes of revolution, scenes of everything … Do you understand? And then a suspicion arose in me that Lenin had already seen the October Revolution before.
We have certain plants in the middle lane that are the equivalents of the Mexican "Lophophora Williamsi" and the Mexican mushrooms. These are the well-known fly agarics. So, I want to tell you … In general, mushrooms are one of the most mysterious things, and it's not for nothing that all mythology is - it is always replete with a huge number of references, references to mushrooms, their symbolic meaning, and different interpretations of what mushrooms are. Indeed, in mythology it is still … at that time, especially …
Sholokhov: But the mushroom is still mysterious …
Kuryokhin: Absolutely.
Sholokhov: … this is not a plant, yes, and not an animal …
Kuryokhin: Until now, the debate is that … what is a mushroom - is it a plant, and is it an animal, do you understand? Because there were different interpretations. For example, we look at the interpretation of Toporov, which is published in "Myths of the Nations of the World", in the first volume, where he, referring to the Ket myth, says that mushrooms are phalluses that have decayed in the forest. But I cannot agree with this, with such an interpretation. This, in my opinion, is from a completely different area. But the fact that mushrooms are a mysterious thing is beyond doubt. And now, while at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a famous institution funded by both public and private companies, which is engaged in research in the field of advanced technology, I was shown one laboratory that studies the acoustic properties of mushrooms. And it turned outthat the mushroom gives the same acoustic properties as the radio wave gives. Do you understand? It's totally incredible. That is, the mushroom gives the same properties that the intangible radio wave gives. That is, a mushroom, in general, speaking roughly, in an understandable language, a mushroom is a radio wave. This is not a phallus decayed in the forest, it is not a plant, it is not an animal, it is a radio wave. Do you understand, yes?
Farther. A mushroom is a materialized radio wave. And I … doing this, I studied all the time the works of Fedorov, Nikolai Fedorovich Fedorov, and his wonderful book "Philosophy of the Common Cause", where it is constantly written about mushrooms that they have some kind of incomprehensible immateriality. And then this line can be traced in the works of Tsiolkovsky. And, in particular, even Popov drew attention to the fact that mushrooms have a certain … certain radio properties. Popov constantly pursues this idea, but it is simply undeveloped, and all researchers did not pay attention to it. It is not for nothing that they still say that mushrooms attract radioactivity to themselves the most. That is why it is not recommended to pick mushrooms? Because mushrooms, they say, are always radioactive, you don't need to collect them. This is a single property.
Farther. I talked about fly agarics. Amanita as an analogue of the same Mexican mushroom and the same "Lophophora Williamsi". The property of the fly agaric is that if you start to take it, if you take it for a long time, then the person is quietly … the person's personality is gradually being replaced by the personality of the fly agaric. Amanita also has a personality, and two personalities cannot exist within one person. And it has already been proven that the personality of the fly agaric is much stronger than the personality of a person. That is, a person who from childhood takes mushrooms, fly agarics, then they slowly become his own essence and supplant his own personality. That is, a person is slowly turning into a mushroom.
Sholokhov: And into the radio wave.
Kuryokhin: And, accordingly, into the radio wave. That is, a person becomes both a mushroom and a radio wave in a single guise, do you understand? And now I will tell you what is most important, to which I am leading all this. And the fact that I have absolutely irrefutable proof that the entire October Revolution was made by people who consumed the corresponding mushrooms for many years. And the mushrooms, in the process of being consumed by these people, supplanted their personality in these people and the people became mushrooms. That is, I just want to say that Lenin was a mushroom. A mushroom, moreover, he was not only a mushroom, he was also a radio wave besides everything. Do you understand?
Farther. Now I will show you a thing that at first just put me into a state of shock. This is something incredible. Now I will demonstrate to you one of the schemes, and you will understand how important it is … just look, this is an armored car, a well-known armored car in which Vladimir Ilyich spoke. This is a section of the armored car, this is its inner part. Now pay attention - this is a fly agaric, and this is a mycelium. Please note that the mycelium and the armored car are almost identical in their cut, pay attention. Almost everything was built according to …
Sholokhov: Very similar.
Kuryokhin: the principle …
Sholokhov: There is even a door.
Kuryokhin: Well, not a door, these are some specific pores that are appropriate, located in the mycelium, which contain moisture and contain extracts from those minerals that are necessary to feed the fly agaric. Do you understand? Exactly the same thing. I can even assume on this basis that we have no top. The top, this is actually Vladimir Ilyich, here. Identification of Vladimir Ilyich and the fly agaric. That is, if an armored car is a mycelium, then a fly agaric is Lenin.
Farther. Other facts. Until now, all researchers could not come to a consensus about the pseudonym that Vladimir Ilyich took for himself - Lenin. Do you understand? Because there are several points of view why he took such a mysterious pseudonym …
Sholokhov: From the Lena River, it seems, right?
Kuryokhin: From the Lena River … well, there are many. Lena events, whatever. I can definitely say that if you read the name "Lenin" from right to left, you get the word "ninel", or rather "ninel". Do you understand?
Sholokhov: No.
Kuryokhin: No? The thing is, I thought, you know, just ninel is a famous French dish made from …
Sholokhov:… mushrooms.
Kuryokhin: … from mushrooms, Sholokhov: … yes, yes, yes. Something like that, yes.
Kuryokhin: Prepared in a special way. This is ninel. Do you understand? Further, look. Remember the wonderful phrase that Lenin said while listening to the Apassionata. "Divine, inhuman music." In itself, this already speaks of some kind of special perception of music. Divine, inhuman music. If we also take into account that it was written by Beethoven, and Beethoven, as you know, is translated as “mushroom spirit” … “Bet” is a mushroom, “hoven” is a spirit, then a certain connection also arises. You see, everything fits.
Farther. I want to offer you the famous story of Kharms, which, in general, is also not taken from the ceiling. Here you are. A short story that also practically confirms what I told you. “Lenin was very fond of mushrooms in childhood. Sometimes he would fill a basket, clean it, boil it, and eat it. Yes, he ate so much that Pushkin could not eat so much. But most of all, Lenin loved fly agarics. Big, red ones. As he sees, so immediately the sparkle in his eyes, all not himself. Here you are, Kharms's story.
Take Aksakov's famous book - his "Diary of a Mushroom Picker". Now, just a second, I will find you so that you are fully convinced … the ninety-sixth page … Here you are, the ninety-sixth page, the fourth chapter, the sixteenth line from the top. Get ready, watch closely what I say. Just very carefully, okay?
Eh … I’m talking very fast. It's just that it always captures me so much when I talk about what really excites me and what I have devoted several years …
Sholokhov: No, I will stop if I do not understand something.
Kuryokhin: Do you understand? I'm even worried. I rarely worry, but this is a thing that I have devoted several years, and put it so that everyone understands that this is not a useless job … Here. Let's return to our Aksakov. "Diary of a mushroom picker".
When you enter a pine forest, it is best to pick mushrooms slowly, thoughtfully: take one step forward, look around and take two steps back. Does this remind you of anything?
Sholokhov: Reminds me.
Kuryokhin: What?
Sholokhov: "One step forward, two steps back."
Kuryokhin: Absolutely correct. This is Lenin's famous work "One Step Forward, Two Steps Back."
We turn over just one sheet. Please see: “Small mushroom is better, but good. Less is better. How do you like this phrase? That is, Lenin is good … this book, exactly the same book, is in Lenin's library, like many books that are somehow connected with mushrooms. That is … Lenin was very interested in this issue, and if you look closely at the library, we will find there a lot of wonderful books.
Farther. Let's take … now I will remove Aksakov, one minute … if we take such a photograph - look. Here is Lenin with a group of comrades. Look carefully. You will recognize some people here, but some you do not know. Please note that if we build a certain … (phone rings) now, one second …
(into telephone receiver) Be so kind, in half an hour, please.
Note that if we build a structure … take Ilyich as the top and build five points. This is the high point … the second … the third … the fourth … the fifth. Five points, and if we connect them into a single whole, then what do we get? We get a star …
Sholokhov: Star of David.
Kuryokhin: … elongated … No, not the Star of David - a five-pointed star, elongated … with one elongated link - exactly the same as is found on almost all Mexican temples. Did you know that the Koran permits Jews to eat mushrooms only on one day of the week - on Saturday?
Sholokhov: Until six in the evening.
Kuryokhin: Well, I don't know such subtleties, but it is on Saturday that the Koran allows Jews to eat mushrooms. Mushrooms, do you understand? On Saturday.
Farther. Let us now turn, again, to documentary evidence. So I made an excerpt from Clara Zetkin's letter to Rosa Luxemburg: “Volodya was there yesterday, he was in a hurry, asked for something to eat quickly. I especially wanted mushrooms. How do you like it?
Farther. Did you pay attention to the fact that Lenin spent the period of late August, September, early October - almost always in Finland, in Shushenskoye, in Razliv, again in the same so-called Gorki? Why "in the so-called", I will say a little later. And on top of that, I want to draw your attention to the fact that the theme of bitterness is constantly present in Lenin's works, and even in the titles. "Gorki", "Gorky" are things that are etymologically related - "Gorki" and "Gorky". Do you understand? Also, none of the researchers paid attention, and all experts say that the taste of mescaline, the taste of Lophophora, the taste of mushrooms - it is incredibly bitter, incredibly bitter. And so as not to cause vomiting, it is soaked for a very long time. That is, this is a completely direct connection - the connection between Gorky and the fly agaric.
Farther. I will now ask for fragments of films, documentaries from the film "Living Lenin". And now you will be convinced just from the documentary material that some things are simply interconnected. Please … Please give me a movie.