Monk burns Lenin portrait in Tbilisi, shaman targets Putin in Moscow
On May 1, 1965, in Tbilisi, monk Gavril Urgebade poured kerosene on and burned a 12-meter portrait of Lenin on the building of the Supreme Soviet of the Georgian SSR.
Consensus
- On May 1, 1965 (1 May 1965), monk Gavriil Urghebadze burned a 12-meter portrait of Lenin.
- The portrait was located on the building of the Supreme Soviet of the Georgian SSR.
- Gavriil Urghebadze was interrogated by the KGB and stated that his only superior was God.
- After three months of investigation, he was sent to a psychiatric hospital and diagnosed with 'psychopathic personality'.
- Nearly fifty years later, the Georgian Orthodox Church canonized him as a saint.
- In spring 2019, shaman Aleksandr Gabyshev began a walking journey from Yakutsk toward Moscow to perform an exorcism against 'the demon in the Kremlin'.
- The state responded with nighttime detentions, OMON operations, criminal cases, and forced psychiatric treatment.
- The practice of using psychiatry against dissenters continued after the Soviet Union.
Points of divergence
- The event is covered in a new episode of the project 'Rhymes of History' with Andrey Filimonov. — tg_severrealii
- The event is covered in a new episode of the program 'Rhymes of History' with Andrey Filimov. — tg_sibrealii
- The shaman's psychiatric treatment continues to the present. — tg_idelrealii
- The shaman's psychiatric treatment continues to the present. — tg_radiosvoboda
Coverage (7 sources)
- On May 1, 1965, in Tbilisi, monk Gavril Urgebade poured kerosene on and burned a 12-meter portrait of Lenin on the building of the Supreme... — Север.Реалии
- On May 1, 1965, in Tbilisi, monk Gavril Urgebade poured kerosene on and burned a 12-meter portrait of Lenin on the building of the Supreme... — Север.Реалии
- On May 1, 1965, Hieromonk Gavril Urgebade publicly burned a 12-meter portrait of Lenin in Tbilisi, and after decades the shaman Alexander Gabyshev went on foot to Moscow to expel Putin. How did Soviet and Russian authorities respond to mystical protests with punitive psychiatry and why history ruled otherwise - in a new episode of the project "Rifms of History" with Andrey Filimonov. — Север.Реалии
- On May 1, 1965, Hieromonk Gavril Urgebade publicly burned a 12-meter portrait of Lenin in Tbilisi, and after decades the shaman Alexander Gabyshev went on foot to Moscow to expel Putin. How did Soviet and Russian authorities respond to mystical protests with punitive psychiatry and why history ruled otherwise - in a new episode of the project "Rifms of History" with Andrey Filimonov. — Сибирь.Реалии
- On May 1, 1965, in Tbilisi, monk Gavril Urgebade poured kerosene on and burned a 12-meter portrait of Lenin on the building of the Supreme... — Idel.Реалии
- On May 1, 1965, in Tbilisi, monk Gavril Urgebade poured kerosene on and burned a 12-meter portrait of Lenin on the building of the Supreme... — Радио Свобода
- On May 1, 1965, in Tbilisi, monk Gavril Urgebade poured kerosene on and burned a 12-meter portrait of Lenin on the building of the Supreme... — Сибирь.Реалии
Key entities
- Tbilisi
- Lenin
- Gavriil Urgebade
- KGB
- Supreme Council
- Supreme
- Georgian SSR
- Georgian Orthodox Church
- Moscow
- Alexander Gabyshev
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