>On 12 April 1961, the Vostok 3KA-3 (Vostok 1) spacecraft with Gagarin aboard was launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome. Gagarin thus became both the first human to travel into space, and the first to orbit the earth
How does /pol/ feel about our based ruskie cosmonaut?
>>70715282
>ruskie
No such thing. He was a soviet one.
Got one on us there. Based Russians caring less about human life, advances it.
>>70715282
poor bastard died on routine training mission.
soviet national hero lost
>>70715477
>poor bastard died on routine training mission.
More like he tried to blab about the Earths actual shape.
>>70715384
hahahaha
Did you teach Croatia that or did they teach you?
>WE WANT OUT
>SOVIET UNION KAPUT
>can we still take credit for what the union did guise?
>WE WANT OUT
>YUGOSLAVIA KAPUT
>oy vey we are still Yugoslavs no matter that we sold it out
these kind of status quos and people who try and perpetuate it need to be walled off
>>70716024
>>WE WANT OUT
We did not, russia withdrew from CCCP before us.
sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declaration_of_State_Sovereignty_of_the_Russian_Soviet_Federative_Socialist_Republic
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Union_referendum,_1991
Only after this epic russian "sovereignty" thing we decided to leave the rest of union.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainian_independence_referendum,_1991
>>70716569
>The dissolution of the Soviet Union was formally enacted on December 26, 1991
Weren't there protests all over the today's NATO wall?
>>70715282
Regardless of any potential cosmonauts that died trying to get to space and back before him, Gagarin did successfully make it to space and come back. Nothing to diminish about him making it back.
>>70715384
True. He was ethnic Russian but a Soviet citizen.
My autism gets triggered when people use Russia interchangeably with USSR.
>>70717611
All kind of protests was forbidden in CCCP, don't you know?
