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in the vast distance of the human future, it will never lose meaning that the first human in space was a proletarian, the child of peasant farmers.
same for Laika too!
. She was a street dog and even tho the traitor Khrushchev 
expedited the mission for political reasons, she paved the way for most of the other dogs and Yuri to make it home safely. Cool how the Soviets sent up the sons of peasants and street dogs, while 
had to kill a bunch of primates and send failsons to make a fraction of the accomplishmentsHell, unless it was purely American propaganda, I think a couple of cosmonauts died for Yuri’s sake, too.
A true hero.
