[Rebelbase]

I don't see any lift-off photos in that link. I do see what appears to be a firing of an engine on the launch pad but it's nowhere near being a launch.

Please understand my skepticism is based on years of listening to Radio Moscow English language broadcasts and comparing those with Western News accounts of the same stories and actual film footage of the events.

If there were a photograph for propaganda in the dictionary, The Hammer and Sickle would be there, right beside the Swastika.

[eks41]

Well, you are mistrustful guy :)
Do you trust NASA? The Russian Shuttle Buran
And here is much info about Buran with photogallery and videogallery.

[klpt]

http://www.buran.ru/htm/molniya.htm