Reagan telling Soviet jokes

Mainly it’s funny because it’s true.

The cosmonaut who crashed into Earth

On April 23, 1967 Soviet cosmonaut, Vladimir Komarov was about to embark on a space crusade he knew was doomed from the start. The operation was an idea by Leonid Brezhnev himself who wanted to stage a midspace meeting of two Soviet space ships.

Komarov’s close friend and Soviet hero Yuri Gagarin who inspected the Soyuz capsule found 203 structural problems that would make this vessel deadly to fly in space. Even then Komarov wouldn’t back out – because Gagarin was his back up pilot. Gagarin wrote a report and suggested that the mission should be postponed but no one dared to present the report to Brezhnev.

Gagarin did everything he could to stop the launch but he was no match against Brezhnev’s wishes. Yuri Gagarin died in a plane accident in 1968.

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