Space Conference Erases Name of Yuri Gagarin From Event Claiming to 'Celebrate Human Achievements'

Sputnik News ^ | 3/19/2022 | Alexander Zemlianichenko

[Eleutheria5]

So he’s canceled because years later, Vladimir Putin, at the time just a boy, grew up to become a Hitler wannabe. And this is somehow Yuri’s fault? He’s Vlad’s whipping boy now?

He was human. He made it into space. Next generation: Reach for the stars, and we’ll pi$$ all over your name while you’re gone, or after you come back and are dead and buried...well, because we’re idiots.

[MikelTackNailer]

There's a high likelihood that Gregarin wasn't first in space.

Lost Cosmonauts: The Tombs in Space cites as many as four people may have preceded him.

The Soviet Union's secrecy and lying (especially for failures) finds us still sifting for truth decades after it's collapse.

[SunkenCiv]

That’s right. One earlier survivor barely made it, was recovered (off target) in China, and heard about Gargarin’s flight while recuperating in a Chinese hospital.

[Ban Draoi Marbh Draoi]

Probably, especially when you consider Dostoevsky’s comment about intelligent people being forcibly censored so as not to offend the imbeciles.