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It's forbidden to mention anything positive about USSR/Russia in Western media. It comes to the point that the first man in space now is Alan Shepard, not Yuri
by anticodon 2y ago
It's forbidden to mention anything positive about USSR/Russia in Western media. It comes to the point that the first man in space now is Alan Shepard, not Yuri Gagarin (according to the US media).
- grishka 2y agoThis article is from 2017.
- ttyprintk 2y agoThe only top search results for Alan Shepard which claim he was first in space are fanfic alternative history, which I guess is popular. I feel it’s quite popular to hypothesize that a Russian secretly preceded Gagarin but didn’t survive.
- LUmBULtERA 2y agoIt's commonly mentioned in the US that the USSR had the first satellite and first man in space.
- beretguy 2y agoStop playing a victim.
- boxed 2y agoCitation needed
- arrowsmith 2y agoI have literally never heard anyone claim that Alan Shepard was th "first man in space."