No they should've saved that for the Communist holiday International Women's Day.
This is just stupid blather.
They were recognizing a milestone in spaceflight, one that actually was rather accidental and that came about because of the scientists convincing the Kremlin that launching a satellite would be good propaganda. But the scientists’ objective was launching a non-military satellite to demonstrate it could be done. Both the Soviets and America were concentrating on developing ICBMs, not peaceful spaceflight.
Some of you are acting like Google was displaying a hammer and sickle.
No they should've saved that for the Communist holiday International Women's Day.