Gagarin
12. April 1961
[Gagarin. April 12, 1961]
Die Geschichte hinter dem Bild
Landeszentrale für politische Bildung Thüringen, Erfurt 2019, 40 pages
ISBN 978-3-946939-79-5
“Attention! This is Moscow! This is Moscow!
This message is being broadcast by all radio stations in the Soviet Union. The time in Moscow: 10 o’clock and 2 minutes. We are broadcasting a message from TASS on the first flight of a human being into space. On April 12, 1961, the first manned cosmic spaceship named ‘Vostok’ took off from the Soviet Union to orbit the earth. The pilot-cosmonaut of the cosmic spaceship ‘Vostok’ is a citizen of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Major of Aviation Yuri Gagarin.”
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see also: Matthias Schwartz, Kevin Anding, Holt Meyer (eds.): Gagarin als Archivkörper und Erinnerungsfigur. Frankfurt a.M. et al 2014 |