{
  "id": 17651540,
  "title": "How Soviet TV Audiences Fell Under the Spell of Mass Hypnosis Artist Anatoly Kashpirovskiy",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/01/how-soviet-tv-audiences-fell-under-the-spell-of-mass-hypnosis-artist",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-11-01T18:16:01.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Variety",
    "slug": "variety",
    "url": "https://variety.com/2026/film/global/soviet-tv-audiences-mass-hypnosis-anatoly-kashpirovskiy-1236936646/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "While Western TV audiences of the 80s surveying the Soviet world were following Mikhail Gorbachev, those inside the bloc were just as likely to be interested in a bizarre mass hypnosis artist by the name of Anatoly Kashpirovskiy, as Ji.hlava doc fest audiences have seen this week. A trained medical doctor who said he first […]",
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  "coverage": {
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}