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Lions Led By Donkeys Podcast

*PREVIEW* History of Armenia 40: Armenicum, the Fake HIV Drug Invented By Armenia

Lions Led By Donkeys Podcast

Lions Led By Donkeys

Comedy

4.61.8K Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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0:00.0

And it's a private state partnership type thing, I guess.

0:04.0

Yeah, it is, yeah, it is this kind of, it is private, but it is also state in a way.

0:09.7

That's kind of Armenian in a nutshell, though, isn't it?

0:11.7

Yeah, yeah.

0:12.1

It has this kind of, yeah, weird structure to it.

0:16.3

So at the time, local and diaspora newspapers wrote positive pieces about Armenicum calling it a revolutionary

0:22.2

treatment for HIV. In March 1999, a diaspora newspaper. Joe guess where the newspaper was being

0:29.5

printed? I mean, I have to say Glendale, don't I? Well, you think so, but I got something better.

0:35.5

I mean, that's cracked me up, really.

0:38.2

New Horizon is a newspaper printed by the Union of Romanian Associations in Uppsala, Sweden.

0:44.1

All right.

0:44.8

Why the hell not?

0:46.0

A place I only know exists because of the Viking TV show.

0:49.2

I mean, exactly.

0:50.3

Like, is this, like, is this even real?

0:53.0

I don't know.

0:53.7

I assume they still live like that. I don't know.

0:57.3

Oh my God. They printed two pieces about Armanicum that I could get my hands on thanks to my own tool where it's at the National Library.

1:05.4

So this is the most Armenian episode we've ever created. We've had to reach out to a family member with a government job for

1:11.1

all. Because trust me, like, it's not easy. You would think about a grief like this. There will be

1:16.8

a lot of information out, but there isn't. Like, especially when we're talking about newspaper archives,

1:22.0

you know, when we want to learn what at the time the media was talking. Like, that's kind of, you know,

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