Yuri Gagarin on the revolution
"First," "unprecedented," "outstanding"—these are the words that describe dozens of achievements of the Soviet space program.
And today, we remember that the USSR's successes in space exploration are inseparable from the Great October Socialist Revolution.
To quote Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin:
"A country of backwardness and despotism, such as Tsarist Russia, could not have broken into space. To ascend to the stars, it is not enough to break the bonds of gravity—it is first necessary to cast off the shackles that languished human labor, reason, and soul before October!" "The assault on space didn't begin on April 12, 1961, when man saw the open universe, or even on October 4, 1957, when the first satellite lifted off from Earth. It all began with the launch of the Aurora, with the assault on the Winter Palace."
Happy Cosmonautics Day!
Our video postcard for Cosmonautics Day.