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Vladimir Komarov

This cracked and un cared for statue in a children's park is for Vladimir Komarov a Russian Cosmonaut who died because no one in Russia dared tell the the leader President Brezhnev that the spacecraft he had ordered Komarov to fly was so unsafe it could never return to Earth safely. In 1967 Brezhnev wanted to show the world that two spacecraft could dock in orbit and exchange cosmonauts. The spacecraft chosen had over 200 defects and a report was sent telling him it could not go ahead in time. But no one dared tell the President that his plan was not going to happen. Komarov knew it would be suicide, but also knew if he refused they would send his best friend Yuri Gagarin in his place so he sacrificed himself to save his colleague. All would have been covered up but the US recorded his last screams as his capsule hurtled to the ground after the chutes had failed to open, cursing the top brass for their incompetence. #Cosmonaut #Komarov

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