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Um, did you read what happened to Yuri who should have lived out a long life as a celebrated cosmonaut?
by boringg 6y ago
Um, did you read what happened to Yuri who should have lived out a long life as a celebrated cosmonaut?
- Andrew_nenakhov 6y agoLikely it was an accident, but I see your point. Dead heroes are much better for propaganda than alive heroes: with the dead you don't need to worry what they might say or do. Valery Chkalov (AKA Gagarin of the 1930s) didn't live long, too.