The space program became a myth for the USSR with the so-called "Great Patriotic War" and "October Revolution." Space flights and satellite launches required huge resources. This was the price paid by the USSR to make other countries believe that Soviet technologies existed, such as in the United States. This race often ended in disasters.
We have collected the main ones and explained the myth of the greatness of the Soviet space program.
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Timecodes:
00:00 - the formation of the Soviet myth of greatness in space
01:15 - welcome to the Tokar.ua channel
01:32 - the background of Soviet cosmonauts
03:42 - future engineers at hard labor
06:48 - the space program is nothing before the military-industrial complex
09:02 - the incident with the lie about Baikonur
11:36 - the Baikonur disaster (1960)
16:19 - the tragedy of Vladimir Komarov (1967)
20:30 - the effect of the absence of atmosphere on the human body and the Karman line
21:01 - Soyuz-11 disaster (1971)
24:34 - the results of the USSR and US space races
29:31 - russians' nostalgia for the non-existent "Soviet greatness"
13 май 2024
