The oft-repeated story that shamans were thrown from helicopters to 'prove' they could fly has no documentary source and should be treated as legend. The actual campaigns, which broke ritual transmission for two generations and only saw organised revival after 1991, are the part that is genuinely documented.
Soviet anti-religious campaigns in Buryatia, Yakutia and the Siberian north, c. 1928–1938
Soviet anti-religious campaigns of the late 1920s to 1930s that arrested and deported Siberian shamanic practitioners and confiscated their ritual objects.
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