Korvinus
16 Apr 2023 #2251
A Russian "barbarian" was first in space
And the case of Yuri Gagarin is highly bizarre...
After his space flight he was banned from even flying airplanes. He started to drink, left his wife, fell from a hotel room and kept a nasty wound on his eyebrow that had to be concealed with makeup.
Eventually they gave him permission to fly only in a 2 seater with an instructor pilot and in that he crashed to death.
But the Russian people spread a different version. According to it, Gagarin started to believe in God after flying into space. His cosmonaut buddies, obviously professed atheists, tried to gently talk him out of it, but when he in a village cerkiew he started to tell what he saw and how important religion plays in his life now, they couldn't stand it.
They put him in an old oil drum and dropped him from a considerable height onto the concrete apron of the airfield.