When Yuri Gagarin Alekseevich ( Юрий Алексеевич Гагарин) made the first manned earth orbit the April 12, 1961, enthusiasm was at its height in the Soviet Union. There was evidence that communism far surpassed capitalism in technology. The proletarian masses realized at the same time as the humblest of steelworkers could become a hero.
Yuri Gagarin among his admirers.
From that moment all mothers Soviet imagined that their son could in turn become a star adulation. But they also learned of many stories published in Pravda that the cosmonauts candidates had to undergo tests extraordinarily difficult to be part of the last four. Passage through the centrifuge was especially critical.
The centrifuge of Star City. When Natalia
Malenkov gave birth to her son Alexander, she decided to put the odds on his side to allow him to become a cosmonaut. So she cobbled a cradle-shaped centrifuge in which she placed her son.
Natalia Malenkov manipulating its domestic centrifuge.
She rocked the little Alexander in this unit for days, weeks and months. The thing is learned growing far and wide, so much so that all young mothers also wanted a centrifuge home to harden their offspring. Factory No. 334 ( Завод № 334 ) produced a model therefore very practical and thousands of babies were subjected to this treatment. But when health services realized that the children became completely clueless response to accelerations received, the authorities were afraid that all cosmonauts become budding capitalists. The Central Committee therefore prohibits the manufacture and use centrifuges servants. Poor mothers became disillusioned realizing that their children would never become or cosmonauts, ... nor capitalist. It is explained better, after these revelations, why the Americans have finally won the race to the moon. Did you know?
