I understand that their first female cosmonaut who went into orbit and died during re-entry:
People intercepted her last transmission and she was SCREAMING.
It was hushed up.
Same happened in the first shuttle disaster. They weren’t all killed when the fuel tank exploded. One of the women on board was screaming all the way down to impact in the ocean.
Their first female cosmonaut is still alive. That "recording" is a fake. Check YouTube and all the comments from Russians and linguists who exposed it as an Italian woman reading Russian lines.
Sorry gaigin, it is a total fake.
The first cosmonaut who did die on the way down and recorded was Vladimir Komarov. He did scream, until the ionization ended his pleas. The man was very brave as he knew before launch the capsule and its systems would fail - he knew he would die.
His motive was simply that, since the Kremlin had ordered it to be launched and that it would fail - killing whomever rode it - it was far better for the country that he, Vladimir Komarov, die than to lose Yuri Gagarin who was the first choice.
We called the first Russian woman in space: Petitza - or Little Bird. She survived and may still be alive today.
I was there for these early days of the Soviet space program, recording and translating.
Two YouTube links that do, with fair accuracy, cover that time and place:
Secrets of the Soviet Space Program
Just checked before posting is now blocked by the BBC Worldwide and unavailable on YouTube
Red Star In Orbit- The Dark Side of the Moon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iE25sG2ELUk