• Flying Squid@lemmy.worldOP
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    2 months ago

    No, this was always the plan. That’s why there are “dead cosmonaut” rumors that predate Gagarin. They used a mannequin multiple times before Gagarin’s flight because they wanted absolutely nothing to possibly go wrong with their propaganda boon.

    And here he is, Ivan Ivanovich (the Russian equivalent of John Doe):