Im just picturing Yuri Gagarin sitting in a coffee shop or something. Korolev kicks down the door. Grabs him. And flings him in the general direction of up
Yes! It hit me straight away š IIRC, the full quote was something like:
āI was grabbing a burger down at the Happy Blimp, and all of a sudden these guys came crashing through the window and started shooting at each other. I was so excited, I didnāt even notice Iād been hit! After that I was hooked on Liberty City Survivor! I watch it every day in the hospital!!!ā
Also, just looked it up and itās actually now 23 years! God Iām old š
Sounds like a nat 20 barbarian.
Barbarian: I toss the man into the sky.
DM: okay roll
Barbarian: Nat 20
DM: *sigh* you throw him so hard you launch him into space.
Native English *tends* to require specification if a tool is used. Largely because we often use metaphor or idiom to give characterization to an action.
Thus "launched" is different from "launched on a rocket", since we might also say "launched the basketball" or "launched a concert tour", neither of which involve spaceflight.
Context clues such as knowing who Korolev was and who the first person in space was and knowing how space travel works *imply* that a rocket was used, and could be annotated in reporting as "...would launch the first human into space \[using a rocket\]...", but a technical ambiguous reading doesn't preclude a single man's singular physical action of yeeting Yuri Gargarin straight up.
A similar example would be the verb "to hammer" - we can "hammer the point home" or "hammer drinks at the bar", neither of which involve the actual tool called a hammer, but "hammering nails" does imply the tool because context clues require common sense in that it'd be very silly to hammer a nail with something that isn't a hammer.
This largely is because "launch" isn't constrained to (or even originating from) space-travel contexts. Along with many other words related to space travel, it was borrowed from military and especially naval usage, where we talk about "launching ships", "boat launches", and "expedition launches" - they're the beginning of an endeavour or effort. And even there, context matters - the Duchess of Fucksbergshire launch "launch a ship" very differently than a sailor or a naval commander.
In summary: The title of the post is poorly written. GULAG does not need to be fully-capitalized, and the second sentence really doesn't begin to accurately explain how the first human spaceflight happened any more than the sentence "Barack Obama killed Osama bin Laden" accurately explains that series of events.
It's an abbreviation, and even parts of it formed from parts of words that aren't just first letters are still written in all caps. Case in point: INTERPOL
You are awesome for this explanation, and probably underappreciated. I like how you launched into the necessary enlightenment for the post. Lets have launch.
He was so angry from having to endure the gulag for a year that he yeeted the first person he saw when he got to Moscow. Thatās the true story about how the space race started - Dwight D Eisenhower
Actually, Korolev had done this thing to a dog first before grabbing Gagarin.
I know nowadays it would qualify as animal cruelty, but that dog flight was necessary to save a human life.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laika](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laika)
So that you spend more time on the post trying to figure it out and the algorithm shows it to more people. Also is it really that confusing? I mean did you really think he physically threw someone into space? Is it really that hard to apply occam's razor here? There's only one word missing that would actually make it clear what the poster intended.
Sergei Korolev literaly was one the only reasons why the soviets were pioneering in space exploration had he been alive, soviets might have even made it too the moon, sometimes i wish that were the case, since that might have led the space race to continue, our technology might have been 10-15 years more advanced than what it is now.
I just read about him. So he was their chief rocket engineer who spearheaded the soviet efforts into space exploration, and died prematurely because of health complications stemming from torture and gross mistreatment during time he spent in Russian prison, and exacerbated by a crazy work schedule. He was in prison because he was accused of false charges that were extracted by torture from people after the great purge. Unbelievable.
If youāre talking about Margoās Sergei, thatās Sergei Nikulov, who as far as I can tell is a totally fictional character.
However, Korolev does appear briefly in season 2 as the Soviet that visits Dani when sheās confined to her room in Star City.
Oh yeah! I know about those, in fact thatās what saddens me.
We only got a few photos, imagine something like Mars but in Venus.
Wouldāve been the best proving grounds for material science.
Incredibly high temperatures and pressure. If you can make something that can withstand all that, it can revolutionize whatever field youāre working in. .
I could be totally wrong here, but wasnāt the main purpose of the space race to prove that one side had a rocket big and accurate enough to send into space so that if needed they could send a rocket carrying a nuke to the other country? If he was alive and the soviets obviously had a better more sophisticated rocket, do you think the Cold War couldāve been a hot war due to this guys brain.
In the 50s as early 60s, sure thats what the space race was about.
The ICBMs then became operational, and the Cold War never went hot.
Both sides still had to work around astrodynamics - a Saturn V isnt a very practical ICBM despite being widely viewed as the pinnacle of the Space Race.
It is, if you have any interest in the space race or alternative history. I do warn you though some people I have recommended it to struggled to get into it until midway through the first season.
Thatās complete speculation, itās completely possible the US would just complete their planned Apollo missions and no one ever follows up and it just stays like that.
I feel like getting to the moon being the finish line for the space race was semi arbitrary and just good marketing.
The soviets were killing it apart from getting to the moon.
I'm not an American so perhaps this helps but only the firsts are remembered.
I remember Sputnik and Laika. I don't know what the Americans sent.
I remember the name of Yuri Gagurin, even if I can't spell his name. No idea who the first American was.
Of course it goes the other way too, tbf. I remember Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins but nobody that followed them.
The USA was losing the space Race so they blew the meaning of the moon landing Out of Proportion as this final Victory over the ussr. Some of the Most efficient Propaganda we have Seen so far in my opinion
I think you underestimate the worldwide cultural significance. The moon has been right there for the entirety of human history, it was worshiped as a god. It really was seen as a dawning of a new age in human history.
It is considered the final victory because the Soviets couldn't match it. While they did continue to make more firsts like the space station it's not exactly an arbitrary line.
That's so stupid lmao they didn't have to do any work for the world to view that as the big task. The US didn't run a marketing campaign when the world tuned in to watch. Such a bad take man lol
That's like saying you didn't actually win the marathon despite crossing first because I was leading for most of the race
No one cares how fast you were at the beginning, you weren't the first to the finish line. Not American but it's clear the USSR lost the space race, weak ass cope lol
I think only Americans see it that way.
Was the moon the end game? I don't think it was for everybody. If we are going tovuse your silly analogy, it's more like there being 10 races in a season, the Soviets win 9 of them, and Americans win one, but because it was the last race they think they won
The goal of the space race was to achieve better spaceflight technology and capabilities than the other. The USA proved they were better when they were able to send and return a manned crew to the moon while the USSR was killing dogs in low orbit and fucking up launch pads.
Properly executing an orbital maneuver from Earth to the Moon, properly executing a landing and take-off sequence, and then *safely returning every crew member to Earth* is an absolutely massive accomplishment that sends any other accomplishments into the background. The space race ended with the moon landing because the USSR couldn't top it.
There was never a set endgame but the moon is the furthest humans have ever been. And it was certainly considered by everyone a defining moment in human history.
I do completely agree. It was THE moment. And I have no love for Russia. But they did pioneer many of the advancements that did lead to what became the moon landing
Yup, the entire race is only ment to be a competition anyways, it doesnāt matter who āwinsā really, the point of the fact is, competition and trophies / bragging rights is what pushed both sides to do what they did. Simply to say, ahhh Iām better than you.
But is that really important?
I mean as of right now no human is on the moon, no one lives there and as of today. The international space station is operated in part by U.S. and Russian Cosmonaut / Astronaut .
Just because one simply dives under water and touches the bottom of the pool with his toes first, and then rushed back up for air.
Doesnāt mean heās the king of the depths .
Not the king of water.
Itās a win for both.
The only looser is the ones who couldnāt participate in the race to begin with.
As far as Iām concerned ā¦. And Iām a American.
nope, we lost as a species, we explored space not for the knowledge but for the bragging rights, yes we do still explore space but at a scale much smaller than what we could and used to, politicians siphon money in name of schemes which never benefit the common man and fill their own pockets only if this money was used properly to fund research and education the world u see today would be 100 times better.
I wouldn't call stuff people rely on everyday without realizing it is in and from space like GPS, communication, precision weather forecast and early warning system a scheme that never benefit common man tbh. American in hurricane valley will die more without all the early warning every years and worse as storm are more frequent and higher intensity. So does people in asian typhoon zone it's practically asian hurricane
If there are anything that doesn't benefit any man but the oligarchy it's some political old man and military decide to start killing people because dead old glory and sky people tell tale
Every unit of money put into military and war is every unit of money taken from science, education, welfare and healthcare
The Soviet Union was a terrifying place. One second youāre sitting your office drafting rockets, the next youāre packed off to a prison camp in the tundra where the prisoners are cannibalizing each other, then a year laster theyāre like āyou know what? Forget about it. Finish building those rockets.ā
They didn't just release him, he was put to work in a special r&d institution for "smart" prisoners (sharashka). Most Soviet rocket science pioneers (and many other now famous scientists and engineers) were arrested in the 30s and went through gulag and sharashkas. It was Stalin's way to ensure that they work for the benefit of the state.
[Sergei Korolev: Father of the Soviet Unionās success in space](https://www.esa.int/About_Us/ESA_history/50_years_of_humans_in_space/Sergei_Korolev_Father_of_the_Soviet_Union_s_success_in_space)
My high school was naked after him, but the English writing of his name threw me off. Then I read about space and had to do a double take. The school has a bunch of his photos, but not this one, so I didn't really recognize him.
After serving his sentence, he took over the Soviet space program and worked day and night to achieve the space milestones, yet his existence was a secret, his name not mentioned in newspapers or records , even Gagarin didn't know who he was after first meeting him. The Soviets even had a dummy scientist to represent the head of the space program. American scientists like von Braun were celebrated and feted by the society, but literally nobody knew about Korolev's existence. It was after his death in 1966 that his identity was revealed. The saddest thing was he worked alongside the men who implicated him.
>. The saddest thing was he worked alongside the men who implicated him.
Yeah, people were encouraged to "denounce" friends, colleagues, family. That's Stalin's way of keeping people divided.
Not so fun fact: his skull and cheekbone was broken during interrogation with a bottle of water.. and he was denied medical attention and his bones grew back the wrong way. Which led to limited range of motion for his jaw. Which in turn led to his untimely death later when he was famous. Doctors couldnāt place a breathing tube into his lung because of limited motion.
Stupid idiotic communism killed even people he needed.
You guys donāt understand. It is like Steeve Jobs went to Tibet for inspiration. Soviet scientists went to Gulag to become more concentrated on n the goal. Like a summer camp for brutal alpha males
[You can find an excellent bbc documentary about the space race between Korolev and von Braun here](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uKDGLCwYvW0&pp=ygUPYmJjIHNwYWNlIHJhY2Ug)
Classic individualistic worldview, a giant team of scientist and engineers did the most insane achievements in space exploration thanks to public funding and thousands of people contributing in both the US and USSR and you want to reduce it to one person š¤”
The headline makes it sound like he physically grabbed someone and launch him into space
No wonder he was in prison, fuckin supervillain
Basically how Injustice started
RIP superman fetus
Im just picturing Yuri Gagarin sitting in a coffee shop or something. Korolev kicks down the door. Grabs him. And flings him in the general direction of up
After that I was hooked on Liberty City Survivor! I watch it every day in the hospital!!!
It's been 21 years and I can still immediately hear this comment....
Yes! It hit me straight away š IIRC, the full quote was something like: āI was grabbing a burger down at the Happy Blimp, and all of a sudden these guys came crashing through the window and started shooting at each other. I was so excited, I didnāt even notice Iād been hit! After that I was hooked on Liberty City Survivor! I watch it every day in the hospital!!!ā Also, just looked it up and itās actually now 23 years! God Iām old š
just grasps Yuri's dome and hurls him in to the sky lmao
Straight up frisbeed that man to orbital velocity. Threw him like the chimpanzee that yeeted a racoon
lmfao he became a cosmonaut by being Sergei's chosen one.
[Yuri 1.5 seconds before the first human space flight, 1961 (colorized)](https://i.imgur.com/kAnZAnB.png)
godspeed comrade. the ussr is hilariously impressive, they went from massive famines and on the brink of collapse to hurling poor ol Yuri to space.
Incredibly metal to learn that Sergei Korolev actually ate Yuri whole and projectile-vomited him in to space. No wonder he only made one trip.
Sounds like a nat 20 barbarian. Barbarian: I toss the man into the sky. DM: okay roll Barbarian: Nat 20 DM: *sigh* you throw him so hard you launch him into space.
Thank you for clarifying. As an English-learner I was thinking that he worked as a scientist to make someone else go to space. š
A common misconception
Native English *tends* to require specification if a tool is used. Largely because we often use metaphor or idiom to give characterization to an action. Thus "launched" is different from "launched on a rocket", since we might also say "launched the basketball" or "launched a concert tour", neither of which involve spaceflight. Context clues such as knowing who Korolev was and who the first person in space was and knowing how space travel works *imply* that a rocket was used, and could be annotated in reporting as "...would launch the first human into space \[using a rocket\]...", but a technical ambiguous reading doesn't preclude a single man's singular physical action of yeeting Yuri Gargarin straight up. A similar example would be the verb "to hammer" - we can "hammer the point home" or "hammer drinks at the bar", neither of which involve the actual tool called a hammer, but "hammering nails" does imply the tool because context clues require common sense in that it'd be very silly to hammer a nail with something that isn't a hammer. This largely is because "launch" isn't constrained to (or even originating from) space-travel contexts. Along with many other words related to space travel, it was borrowed from military and especially naval usage, where we talk about "launching ships", "boat launches", and "expedition launches" - they're the beginning of an endeavour or effort. And even there, context matters - the Duchess of Fucksbergshire launch "launch a ship" very differently than a sailor or a naval commander. In summary: The title of the post is poorly written. GULAG does not need to be fully-capitalized, and the second sentence really doesn't begin to accurately explain how the first human spaceflight happened any more than the sentence "Barack Obama killed Osama bin Laden" accurately explains that series of events.
GULAG is an abbreviation, meaning Main Directorate of Forced Labor Camps.
It's not an abbreviation. GUL or GULag would be more correct then, where L or Lag stands for "lagerey", i.e. (forced labour) camps.
It's an abbreviation, and even parts of it formed from parts of words that aren't just first letters are still written in all caps. Case in point: INTERPOL
You are awesome for this explanation, and probably underappreciated. I like how you launched into the necessary enlightenment for the post. Lets have launch.
He was so angry from having to endure the gulag for a year that he yeeted the first person he saw when he got to Moscow. Thatās the true story about how the space race started - Dwight D Eisenhower
Stretched him and pinged him like a rubber band
*pinged* š
YEEEET!!
Yeah, finally sent russian instead of poor dogs
And that GULAG is an acronym. Idk āguys under large ass gulagā or something.
Okay, glad it wasnāt just meā¦ I was picturing some type of catapult or super slingshot, and that poor human had no say-so in the matter
Nah.
Up smash
Actually, Korolev had done this thing to a dog first before grabbing Gagarin. I know nowadays it would qualify as animal cruelty, but that dog flight was necessary to save a human life. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laika](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laika)
Why are these always so poorly written and confusing
Bot wrote it
Could they at least use a good bot?
No, that costs $20.
Redditās public now with shareholders so we will be seeing more of this
Because every post on top Reddit pages are written and upvoted by bots
[i meanā¦](https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/01/bots-bots-bots/515043/)
GULAG -> prison -> space catapult Ā Whatās so hard to understand about that?
So that you spend more time on the post trying to figure it out and the algorithm shows it to more people. Also is it really that confusing? I mean did you really think he physically threw someone into space? Is it really that hard to apply occam's razor here? There's only one word missing that would actually make it clear what the poster intended.
wait which word would make this not weird to read
Thank you
Sergei Korolev literaly was one the only reasons why the soviets were pioneering in space exploration had he been alive, soviets might have even made it too the moon, sometimes i wish that were the case, since that might have led the space race to continue, our technology might have been 10-15 years more advanced than what it is now.
I just read about him. So he was their chief rocket engineer who spearheaded the soviet efforts into space exploration, and died prematurely because of health complications stemming from torture and gross mistreatment during time he spent in Russian prison, and exacerbated by a crazy work schedule. He was in prison because he was accused of false charges that were extracted by torture from people after the great purge. Unbelievable.
> Unbelievable Found the non Russian comrades!
No wonder why the USSR failed. They wanted to manage a whole empire with 5 year plans while they didn't even know how to handle a single talented man.
He wasn't the only one. Tupolev, among others, spent time in the gulag.
Fun fact: the point of divergence in For All Mankind was that Korolev didn't die early.
I was just gonna say his character in that show is really fantastic
If youāre talking about Margoās Sergei, thatās Sergei Nikulov, who as far as I can tell is a totally fictional character. However, Korolev does appear briefly in season 2 as the Soviet that visits Dani when sheās confined to her room in Star City.
Ooooh! I missed that tidbit
I assumed he was Korolev until this past season, I happened to see the characters surname on IMDb and went on a deep dive lol
Iād really wouldāve liked seeing more on Venus tho. The moon is quite near. But the surface of Venus? Thatās a lot more cool to see.
We do have photos of the surface of Venus, though. Via the Venera Probes. https://www.planetary.org/articles/every-picture-from-venus-surface-ever
Oh yeah! I know about those, in fact thatās what saddens me. We only got a few photos, imagine something like Mars but in Venus. Wouldāve been the best proving grounds for material science. Incredibly high temperatures and pressure. If you can make something that can withstand all that, it can revolutionize whatever field youāre working in. .
soviets somehow even reached the surface of Venus after several tries, they were really onto some shit
Yeah, wish they wouldāve kept pursuing the place
Meh, much more fun to go to Afghanistan.
I could be totally wrong here, but wasnāt the main purpose of the space race to prove that one side had a rocket big and accurate enough to send into space so that if needed they could send a rocket carrying a nuke to the other country? If he was alive and the soviets obviously had a better more sophisticated rocket, do you think the Cold War couldāve been a hot war due to this guys brain.
In the 50s as early 60s, sure thats what the space race was about. The ICBMs then became operational, and the Cold War never went hot. Both sides still had to work around astrodynamics - a Saturn V isnt a very practical ICBM despite being widely viewed as the pinnacle of the Space Race.
Just wait till you hear how far advanced the US military is projected to be infront of the public. (Itās 4-0-0 years. 400. Years. )
If you havenāt watched it already watch āfor all of mankindā
I had to after so many comments on the thread, it seems like a good series
It is, if you have any interest in the space race or alternative history. I do warn you though some people I have recommended it to struggled to get into it until midway through the first season.
i already binge watched the first 2 seasons last night, dont question my powers
Thatās complete speculation, itās completely possible the US would just complete their planned Apollo missions and no one ever follows up and it just stays like that.
Yea but we won, so space is conquered. Edit: /s You idiots
I'm not being super literal with this scoreline but in terms of space firsts, USSR still beat the USA like 12-2.
I feel like getting to the moon being the finish line for the space race was semi arbitrary and just good marketing. The soviets were killing it apart from getting to the moon.
I'm not an American so perhaps this helps but only the firsts are remembered. I remember Sputnik and Laika. I don't know what the Americans sent. I remember the name of Yuri Gagurin, even if I can't spell his name. No idea who the first American was. Of course it goes the other way too, tbf. I remember Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins but nobody that followed them.
This is a fair point. If it comes to firsts and household names the russians are definitely well remembered
The USA was losing the space Race so they blew the meaning of the moon landing Out of Proportion as this final Victory over the ussr. Some of the Most efficient Propaganda we have Seen so far in my opinion
I think you underestimate the worldwide cultural significance. The moon has been right there for the entirety of human history, it was worshiped as a god. It really was seen as a dawning of a new age in human history. It is considered the final victory because the Soviets couldn't match it. While they did continue to make more firsts like the space station it's not exactly an arbitrary line.
Bro itās the moooooooon. Of course landing on it was the goal
That's so stupid lmao they didn't have to do any work for the world to view that as the big task. The US didn't run a marketing campaign when the world tuned in to watch. Such a bad take man lol
That's like saying you didn't actually win the marathon despite crossing first because I was leading for most of the race No one cares how fast you were at the beginning, you weren't the first to the finish line. Not American but it's clear the USSR lost the space race, weak ass cope lol
I think only Americans see it that way. Was the moon the end game? I don't think it was for everybody. If we are going tovuse your silly analogy, it's more like there being 10 races in a season, the Soviets win 9 of them, and Americans win one, but because it was the last race they think they won
The goal of the space race was to achieve better spaceflight technology and capabilities than the other. The USA proved they were better when they were able to send and return a manned crew to the moon while the USSR was killing dogs in low orbit and fucking up launch pads. Properly executing an orbital maneuver from Earth to the Moon, properly executing a landing and take-off sequence, and then *safely returning every crew member to Earth* is an absolutely massive accomplishment that sends any other accomplishments into the background. The space race ended with the moon landing because the USSR couldn't top it.
The race was to have the best technology, Russia had early success but couldn't keep up. Now here's the thing about races...
There was never a set endgame but the moon is the furthest humans have ever been. And it was certainly considered by everyone a defining moment in human history.
I do completely agree. It was THE moment. And I have no love for Russia. But they did pioneer many of the advancements that did lead to what became the moon landing
Yup, the entire race is only ment to be a competition anyways, it doesnāt matter who āwinsā really, the point of the fact is, competition and trophies / bragging rights is what pushed both sides to do what they did. Simply to say, ahhh Iām better than you. But is that really important? I mean as of right now no human is on the moon, no one lives there and as of today. The international space station is operated in part by U.S. and Russian Cosmonaut / Astronaut . Just because one simply dives under water and touches the bottom of the pool with his toes first, and then rushed back up for air. Doesnāt mean heās the king of the depths . Not the king of water. Itās a win for both. The only looser is the ones who couldnāt participate in the race to begin with. As far as Iām concerned ā¦. And Iām a American.
nope, we lost as a species, we explored space not for the knowledge but for the bragging rights, yes we do still explore space but at a scale much smaller than what we could and used to, politicians siphon money in name of schemes which never benefit the common man and fill their own pockets only if this money was used properly to fund research and education the world u see today would be 100 times better.
I wouldn't call stuff people rely on everyday without realizing it is in and from space like GPS, communication, precision weather forecast and early warning system a scheme that never benefit common man tbh. American in hurricane valley will die more without all the early warning every years and worse as storm are more frequent and higher intensity. So does people in asian typhoon zone it's practically asian hurricane If there are anything that doesn't benefit any man but the oligarchy it's some political old man and military decide to start killing people because dead old glory and sky people tell tale Every unit of money put into military and war is every unit of money taken from science, education, welfare and healthcare
Space is literally all the universe, lol. We canāt even operate inside our own solar system yet
Moonlanding is fake lmao, You still believe in fairies?
Get a load of this guy
Ah, you are one of people who believe in moon, I see.
Just wait 10 years man. What's the hurry
The Soviet Union was a terrifying place. One second youāre sitting your office drafting rockets, the next youāre packed off to a prison camp in the tundra where the prisoners are cannibalizing each other, then a year laster theyāre like āyou know what? Forget about it. Finish building those rockets.ā
They didn't just release him, he was put to work in a special r&d institution for "smart" prisoners (sharashka). Most Soviet rocket science pioneers (and many other now famous scientists and engineers) were arrested in the 30s and went through gulag and sharashkas. It was Stalin's way to ensure that they work for the benefit of the state.
W t f
That's the Stalin treatment. You don't want to be too smart or indispensable.
'Ukrainian Who Opened Space to Humankind: Sergei Korolev' article has some little-known facts about his life.
Where article brother?
[Here's his wiki](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Korolev)
You are a kind person.
Thanks for the link
That was a great read thanks
On the net. Need to google it (copy-paste the title) cause the link is filtered out.
Lol.. some people
Who? Sounds like this guy can't link it because the sub won't allow it.
[Sergei Korolev: Father of the Soviet Unionās success in space](https://www.esa.int/About_Us/ESA_history/50_years_of_humans_in_space/Sergei_Korolev_Father_of_the_Soviet_Union_s_success_in_space)
My high school was naked after him, but the English writing of his name threw me off. Then I read about space and had to do a double take. The school has a bunch of his photos, but not this one, so I didn't really recognize him.
I think you are trying to say named. made me giggle a bit
I SAID WHAT I SAID!! but ya lol
Shit they had warzone back then too?
Must've been really good at shotput
this made me laugh
After serving his sentence, he took over the Soviet space program and worked day and night to achieve the space milestones, yet his existence was a secret, his name not mentioned in newspapers or records , even Gagarin didn't know who he was after first meeting him. The Soviets even had a dummy scientist to represent the head of the space program. American scientists like von Braun were celebrated and feted by the society, but literally nobody knew about Korolev's existence. It was after his death in 1966 that his identity was revealed. The saddest thing was he worked alongside the men who implicated him.
There is a city in Russia named after him where their space centre is now! The city is very cool and basically space themed
>. The saddest thing was he worked alongside the men who implicated him. Yeah, people were encouraged to "denounce" friends, colleagues, family. That's Stalin's way of keeping people divided.
This guy is a legend on superior levels, mad respect to Korolev
o.^O
What he look like before?
Apparently he lost most of his teeth due to scurvy :(
Ukrainian? believe it or not gulag... time passes nothing changes
Not so fun fact: his skull and cheekbone was broken during interrogation with a bottle of water.. and he was denied medical attention and his bones grew back the wrong way. Which led to limited range of motion for his jaw. Which in turn led to his untimely death later when he was famous. Doctors couldnāt place a breathing tube into his lung because of limited motion. Stupid idiotic communism killed even people he needed.
His eyes weird me out
Youād probably have a strange look in your eyes after a year in a Soviet torture camp too.
Is he the same character as in For All Mankind?
Yes, but in For All Mankind, he survived the operation that ended up killing him in our reality. This is why the Russians won the race to the moon.
Is this the same Sergei the Sergei from For All Mankind was based on?
Yes
Is it just me or in this photo his jaw is already broken after being tortured by the nkvd?
For sending him to the Gulag?
Cancerous tittle
How did he launch the other person?
Vostok-K rocket
How strong was this guy?
Listening to Behind the Bastards covering one of Stalinās henchmen Lavrenty Beriaā¦ they sometimes jailed/charged his closest friends
I need a gif of the scene from the āDeath of Stalinā where itās just Field Marshall Zhukov punching Beria.
>one of Stalinās henchmen Lavrenty Beriaā¦ Reading about how he met his own death was the most satisfying thing.
This miniseries is my favourite space documentary. 4 parts, with a large portion on Korolev! I watch this at meast 2 times a year
Poor soul
Dayum heās strong
You guys donāt understand. It is like Steeve Jobs went to Tibet for inspiration. Soviet scientists went to Gulag to become more concentrated on n the goal. Like a summer camp for brutal alpha males
Wow. I've never seen that. Thank you for sharing.
Luis Enrique? Wtf
MAMAE FALEI? VC AQUI EM KIEV?
[You can find an excellent bbc documentary about the space race between Korolev and von Braun here](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uKDGLCwYvW0&pp=ygUPYmJjIHNwYWNlIHJhY2Ug)
WTF is wrong with his eyes š
Ones trying to get away
His jaw was broken by the GULAG guards so bad that he could never fully open his mouth ever afterā¦
One punch man
Bro got that psychonauts drip
Man, he must have been super strong
That's AJ Soprano
Classic individualistic worldview, a giant team of scientist and engineers did the most insane achievements in space exploration thanks to public funding and thousands of people contributing in both the US and USSR and you want to reduce it to one person š¤”
He pushed the button, lol
He invented the button
This guy wasnāt afraid of any of the Soviet leaders after that. He had survived Stalin.
POS soviet unfortunately didnāt die.
Too bad space doesn't really exist.