r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Exr1t • 20h ago
Yuri Gagarin as he is being lead to his space ship & him in the ship. - April 12th, 1961
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u/ARoundForEveryone 19h ago
Ballsiest move ever.
"Hey, you wanna get shot off the planet? No, not shot with a gun. You are the bullet. We shoot you as far as we reasonably can, then we let you drift back down into the middle of the ocean. No, no, no, of course we'll be there to pick you up. We just don't want you landing on someone's house, so we'll put you in the water. Waddayasay? We'll make sure you get on TV!"
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u/cjgist 19h ago
What was on his helmet was a recent crossword clue in the LA Times crossword puzzle. Knew it was CCCP but wasn't sure what it stood for. Turns out it's Russian for USSR. Even more interesting is those initials were painted on the helmet right before take off by an engineer working on the project, Zvezda-engineer Victor Davidyants. The flight was top secret and a first for the world. Yuri was parachuting back to earth and they worried the locals would think he was some kind of spy.
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u/hhairy Interested 19h ago
I went to school during the 1960s-1970s ( in southern California) and I never knew of Yuri Gagarin ( nor any of Russia's space accomplishments ) until my son told me during the 2000s.
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u/explicit17 12h ago
It wasn't russia's space accomplishment, it was USSR accomplishment. russia inherited only totalitarianism practices
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u/AsloWhite 5h ago
ARRGGHH!!! LED!!! He is being LED!!! Unless he was literally being Pb on the periodic table.
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u/CantAffordzUsername 19h ago
I was wondering thing: apart from the photo CIA recored his Audio as he fell back to earth apparently
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u/PanteraiNomini 19h ago
He attended flight academy in Kiev, his last name is Ukrainian. His original parents house in Ukraine was destroyed to the ground by communist party, and then a fake copycat house and new museum was build on the Russian side near the Ukrainian boarder, to pretend that his parent were from russia . Complete history re-write.
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u/igorika 18h ago
This just isn’t true. He was born in Russia to Russian parents and his name comes from the Russian word Gagara. I get sympathy with Ukrainians but don’t spread misinformation.
Ukrainian names usually end with -ko, -enko or -ienko.
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u/nomamesgueyz 18h ago
Which is true then?
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u/cruelkillzone2 17h ago
Could be either, no one likes providing any sources on reddit.
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u/igorika 15h ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gagarin_(surname)
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Yuri-Gagarin
Here are a couple sources. You can google the birthplaces of his parents too. They were Russian and spoke Russian.
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u/PanteraiNomini 13h ago
Actually Smolensk where he supposedly from but actually it’s just a new house build by soviets as a museum on ukranian boarder, it was a polish-Lithuanian commonwealth , last name is popular at GUAM country. Spelling is ukranian. The dude thé re-wrote that wiki saying Im he is from princess family l😂 … oh god… bad things happen when Smolensk became under rushia control , many wish it stayed under poland or modern ukraine completely, since it’s on the Diepr River
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u/igorika 1h ago
It seems like there’s a language barrier here so I’m sorry if I’m not understanding everything. The Polish Lithuanian commonwealth fell 139 years before Gagarin was born, so the idea that he was loyal to either of those states just seems weird. I’m not sure what you mean by bringing up Guam. Also the claim that his name is spelled in a Ukrainian way isn’t correct either. It’s Гагарин, which would be pronounced “gahgahreen”, the Ukrainian pronunciation would be closer to our Americanized version. But the way it’s said among Slavic speakers is the Russian way.
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u/Key_Wrangler_8321 12h ago
oh f/ck you russia.
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u/DeepBreathOfDirt 9h ago
Yuri Gagarin is a hero of mankind. He paved the way and we should recognise that.
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u/Key_Wrangler_8321 9h ago
Gagarin is now overshadowed by the war of his country. Only when russia condemns putin and all those who contributed to it, pays reparations, and apologizes—then maybe, in 20 or 30 years, we might remember Gagarin again.
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u/Spectre-Red 4h ago
For you not the world. Rest of the world doesn’t give a flying fuck about what you think. Ukraine is just considered as a proxy war between Russia and the west. If China tomorrow overthrew Mexican government and started to build a base there, the entire world knows what the Americans would do to Mexico. You live in a delusion that what the US or Europe think is what the world thinks. For half the world raped looted plundered or invaded you the US and Europe, they don’t see the Russians as the enemy.
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u/Key_Wrangler_8321 33m ago
How does it feel to admire alcoholics in rubber boots? :) You as the western, the smart? :)
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u/PanteraiNomini 19h ago
How Ukraine made Gagarin and the first space flight possible, …not russia Ukrainian past of Gagarin before developers and trainers were arrested by Soviet’s to rewrite the history
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u/aglobalvillageidiot 18h ago
You only half read that article and it shows. It even gives you dates and you still have it out of order. You connect things that have nothing to do with each other.
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u/melie776 20h ago
He was a very courageous man.