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Are you fucking kidding me.
What's next are people gonna erase Russia from the world map and pretend Russia never existed?
2028, Congress passes a law that American schools and Federal Institutions must only buy maps which show "Russia" as an ocean named "The Sea of Zelensky."
I'll make this even better:
The U.S. will subject their entire population to a mass memory wipe to completely erase all memories they have ever had of Russia.
This implies modern socialism becomes enough of a threat to invoke the same level of cold war fanaticism that the Soviet Union did with no help from the past :xicko:
To be fair steven universe's timeline has a bunch of random chunks of the earth missing due to the whole hollowing g out the earth and eating her minerals thing
USA isnt gonna get rid of its current favorite boogieman. though i guess we could just go back to china or iran like it was before this.
Yuri Gargarin was a farm boy that sabotaged nazi military equipment and then grew up to fly to space. You can watch him speak. He's clearly someone who was motivated by a desire to build a just and free world. His life accomplishments overshadow most people that have ever lived. Liberal performance will never change any of this.
:yuri: Edit: I would have to check, but I'm also pretty sure he's from Ukraine.
Out of curiosity (and also because Gargarin is insanely popular in all the former Soviet countries, including Ukraine, as he damn well should be) I looked it up, and he's from a small village called Klushino that's 200~km west of Moscow, so nowhere near Ukraine.
Thanks. Like I said, I wasn't sure.
Edit: Actually, I said I was pretty sure. Let's just say I wasn't absolutely sure.
farm boy that sabotaged nazi military equipment
Really? I've never heard of that. The guy was like nine years old when Smolensk oblast was liberated from Germans.
According to Wikipedia, in 1942 "Yuri sabotaged the soldier's work; he poured soil into the tank batteries gathered to be recharged and randomly mixed the different chemical supplies intended for the task."
Gagarin's family was forced to farm by the Nazis, though Yuri himself would apprentice as a steel worker after WW2 ended, and join the Soviet air force in 1955.
Maybe it's all Russian disinformation 👁, but what I heard was that he was literally doing sabotage at 8 years old.
I don’t get shit like this at all. We’re not the ones at war with Russia.
They are just so hyped to be able to discriminate against someone overtly.
We’re not the ones at war with Russia.
Yes "we" are. Never mind the proxy and the neo-Nazis used to help control it.
Did you draft yourself too?
:capitalist-laugh: :dog-faced-pony-soldier:
Where are all the free speech warriors ready to oppose this clear censorship of history?
Free speech is when alternate versions of history are given as much or more credence than the ones with actual physical evidence to back them up, obviously. We cannot call our society liberated from censorship until at least half of all museum exhibits feature dinosaurs with saddles.
Yuri Gagarin is a beloved figure across all of Eastern Europe (and I imagine much of the space enthusiast community). This is such a pathetic move.
strikes me as a little too convenient that a term defined by an American "space lawyer" takes the achievement away
Of course America uses an arbitrarily different measurement than the entire rest of the world. This fucking country.
agree, 100km is too low to even orbit since its still got considerable atmospheric drag, the lowest satellite orbit is about 167km by a japanese satellite and even they had quite a bit of drag
my brother was obsessed with early NASA space stuff, pretty wild stuff they came up with and pretty crazy pilots willing to test it
I see your MOOSE and raise you project Pluto, the nuclear ramjet terror project. At the time it was being developed they believed the thing would be so radioactive that it would kill anyone within several klicks of it's flight path. And it would have had a flight endurance time of weeks or months. This is in addition to carrying numerous nuclear weapon payloads. If you ever want proof that Americans are absolutely depraved psychopaths Pluto is a good one to cite. They only dropped the project because they thought the Soviets would respond in kind and they couldn't think of a way to defend against a flying hypersonic nuclear reactor.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Pluto
I think the west does this cause they associate even the mildest inconvenience as actual strong protest or some shit. Like when the libs protested trump they had a strict schedule of 3 - 7pm and were all done within their scheduled time all patting each other on the back for being so rebellious
Everyone already said all the better and more important part so here's a useless detail just for fun: Yuri Gagarin was not a large man. His smaller frame made it easier for him to sit in the cockpit and lightening the load by just a few pounds matters when you're throwing a rocket into space. The point is:
We uphold a short king.
