Salute to Comrade Yuri Gagarin

[Robocommie]

Tomorrow, April 12th, is the 50th Anniversary of the historic flight of Comrade Yuri Gagarin, the first human being to enter space. This is an important landmark, as it shows what humanity is capable of under socialist development - the Soviet Union, despite its flaws, went from being an underdeveloped, largely pre-industrial society to the nation that put a man in space before any other industrial nation. Even Google is celebrating this piece of USSR history today: www.google.com (http://www.google.com)

Salute and RIP to Comrade Yuri Gagarin, and a salute to the heroes of the Soviet space program!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_Gagarin

[RED DAVE]

I can remember it well. It was very exciting but not unexpected since the USSR had been launchng bigger and bigger satellites since the launching of Sputnik on October 4, 1957. Now that was a world-wide freak-out as it was the first artificial satellite ever.

To provide a bit of context, Gagarin's flight came 3 days before the US-sponsored invasion of Cuba.

RED DAVE

[Tavarisch_Mike]

A toast to the first comrade in space!!!

[ComradeOm]

Here (http://www.youtube.com/user/firstorbit) is a free film, released to celebrate this anniversary, that splices images of the route that Gagarin followed (taken from the ISS) with the recorded communications between the shuttle and ground control on 12 April 1961. Watch it

[The Man]

☭I See No God Up Here!☭

[GallowsBird]

I salute comrade Gagarin not only for being a hero to the socialist cause and helping to show what a socialist country can do but also for being a hero who helped to advance all mankind and going yet further in our quest into the infinite!


Thank you comrade Yuri Gagarin, and rest in piece, you have always been a hero to me even before I was interested in politics and the revolution.

[Rusty Shackleford]

http://www.onthisdeity.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Yuri-Gagarin-Moscow-_7137.jpg
http://nazareneblogs.org/kpprobst/files/2010/04/funny_wallpapers_yuri_gagarin_018771_1.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/21/Walter_Womacka_Glasfenster_HUB_1.jpg

[Sir Comradical]

☭I See No God Up Here!☭

That's my new sig.

[gestalt]

A quote only marred by the fact that he never uttered it.

Also, I would rather we celebrate the rank and file contributors to humanity's first foray into space from the scientists and mission controllers to the metalworkers and instrument fabricators than fall into the Great Individual™, first among equals nonsense.

[Rusty Shackleford]

even though he didnt say it, it is awesome.

[Red Commissar]

I've learned that apparently, according to some wingnuts and others, Yuri Gagarin's spaceflight was hoaxed. What the hell?

There's some sort of British documentary that claims this is the case. I only came across it because the shit is first on youtube's results for Yuri Gagarin, uploaded by some sort of wingnut who masturbates over the American space program who uploads videos specifically for this end. 40k+ views.

Thankfully it doesn't seem to be a widely believed conspiracy.

[El Chuncho]

It was Khrushchev who said that during a meeting, I believe. Gagarin was probably Russian Orthodox though he did say something like ''People who cannot find god on Earth will not find him in space''.

[Thirsty Crow]

A quote only marred by the fact that he never uttered it.

Also, I would rather we celebrate the rank and file contributors to humanity's first foray into space from the scientists and mission controllers to the metalworkers and instrument fabricators than fall into the Great Individual™, first among equals nonsense.
That's hardly going to happen, and you know it.

[Ismail]

Enver Hoxha on April 12, 1961 (from Ditar për çështje ndërkombëtare Vëll. 2, fq. 75, translated into English): "The Soviets brought the first man into space, Major Yuri Gagarin... This is the miracle of our century, and was made ​​in the country of the Great October Socialist Revolution, made possible by ​​glorious Soviet science, by Marxism-Leninism."

[Thirsty Crow]

Enver Hoxha on April 12, 1961 (from Ditar për çështje ndërkombëtare Vëll. 2, fq. 75, translated into English): "The Soviets brought the first man into space, Major Yuri Gagarin... This is the miracle of our century, and was made ​​in the country of the Great October Socialist Revolution, made possible by ​​glorious Soviet science, by Marxism-Leninism."
Gestalt, that's what I was talking about, albeit in a different form: not only is the "first among equals" narrative activated, but rather an entire complex of social and productive relations is mystified very much in the manner of bourgeois ideology and represented as a causal outcome of a specific ideology.

Yeah, long live Gagarin, Marxism-Leninism and the USSR. (sorry for spoiling the cheerful atmosphere:tt2:)

[Zhu Bailan]

Pojechali towarischtsch! :)

[stella2010]

I have a stamp of the sputnik, i keep it with my assat ( australian sattelite) stamp. Australia and Soviet Union could of made great allies. Still today, however there is a language barrier, but not so much a capital bourgeois barrier.

Yuri Gagarin is a tribute to hard work. He is number 1#.

[hardlinecommunist]

Enver Hoxha on April 12, 1961 (from Ditar për çështje ndërkombëtare Vëll. 2, fq. 75, translated into English): "The Soviets brought the first man into space, Major Yuri Gagarin... This is the miracle of our century, and was made ​​in the country of the Great October Socialist Revolution, made possible by ​​glorious Soviet science, by Marxism-Leninism."
Ismail where did you found this quote from Hoxha is it from the Albanian edition of his collected works

[Ismail]

Ismail where did you found this quote from Hoxha is it from the Albanian edition of his collected worksAs I pointed out it's from Ditar për çështje ndërkombëtare Vëll. 2, fq. 75. It can be found online here: http://www.enver-hoxha.net/content/content_shqip/librat/ditari_per_ceshtje_nderkombetare/ditar_02.htm

It's the second volume of his political journal which covers the years 1961-1963 and is distinct from his Vepra (aka collected works.)

[Invader Zim]

Am I the only individual who thinks that the USSR might have actually survived if it hadn't invested its fragile economy in a dick-waving contest with the USA which extended from military adventurism and an arms race to the space race?