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массовое помешательство (только для направления "англ → рус"; как нарицательное понятие (см. Jonestown mass suicide); сюда же относится и фраза "drink the Kool-aid"): A reference to the 1978 cult mass-suicide in Jonestown, Guyana. Jim Jones, the leader of the group, convinced his followers to move to Jonestown. Late in the year he then ordered his flock to commit suicide by drinking grape-flavored Kool-Aid laced with potassium cyanide in what is now commonly called "the Jonestown Massacre"  wikipedia.org 4uzhoj) |
