Loser Araysar
Chief Russia Reporter. Stock Pals CEO. Head of AI.
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wow, sounds like your life is out of control. hope you get it together, bro.
I'll tell you anyways. In late 1980s as USSR was collapsing and press/media controls fell apart there was a huge explosion in all kinds of pseudoscientific stuff in print, TV, books, etc. The 3 topics I remember distinctly is UFO stuff (M-triangle, Perm Zone, there was also one called Zona 47 which seems like an obvious ripoff of Area 51 but I cant find any info on it). Second one was poltergeist stuff being real. Third one was paranormal seance stuff where charlatans like Kashpirovsky would do mass audience seances to cure them of various illnesses. There were also lesser known grifters like Chumak and some others. My mom actually took me to a Chumak mass seance in some auditorium hoping it would fix my eyesight. There was tons of NLO (UFO) content everywhere and newly emergent tabloid newspapers like "Sovershenno Sekretno" (Top Secret) peddled UFO content almost weekly.
I remember reading those UFO newspapers and books and thinking about how cool all that shit was.
It is within that information environment, that your 1989 Voronezh UFO story happened. Its a bunch of kids reciting popular motifs from perestroika era pulp tabloids about black triangle UFOs, robots, etc.
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