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The Soviet Union's desperate efforts at mind control

7 mins | Mar 27, 2022
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Perhaps not surprisingly, they didn't work as planned. In October 1989, as the Cold War was ending, television viewers in the Soviet Union tuned in to the first of a series of very unusual broadcasts. Wladimir Velminski tells us the fascinating story behind Anatoly Mikhailovich Kashpirovsky's six infamous 'healing' transmissions, a peculiar effort to reignite communism in the last days of the Soviet Union.

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