Cosmonaut Vladimir Kamarov was sent into space in 1967 in Soyuz-1. The spacecraft was shoddily built; both Kamarov and his fellow cosmonauts knew that whoever flew it would likely die.
Kamarov would not step aside and let the backup cosmonaut fly the mission. The mission was flown because Brezhnev wanted it flown and nobody dared to object.
Kamarov died cursing the engineers who had designed and built that piece of shit. The backup cosmonaut was his friend, Yuri Gagarin.
Gagarin died the following year in a plane crash.
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You gotta respect that kind of courage and loyalty
I just restrung my dad's 41 year old balalaika, which he bought in Moscow in 1970. I've been wanting to write a new song with it, and I think I might use this tragic event as inspiration....
One can only hope Brezhnev is doing some roasting of his own in the afterlife, considering his hubris was responsible for this man's death.
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