The Russians! When you need an enemy - real or imagined - they are always at hand. Without the Russians the Apollo film project & massive money laundering enterprise would never have occurred.
Excellent as always Doc Strangelove III, The truth of these many lies in their absolute can’t be verified. Christ called us to live not by fear, in how many ways? Tyrannical fear is the tool of a liar. Employing this heuristic, I’m no longer persuaded by the stories of nukes. Sure, one might concentrate some metals and boil water. However, the exponential nature of this reaction thereby k-boom reads like all other offramps for enquiring minds- too big, too far away, too small, too dangerous to be near or even imagine. Virus, nukes, bangs, space- all at a scale imperceptible to our God given senses. Thankyou again for your continuing demolition of these perverted gods.
Look for a book called Hiroshima Revisited by Michael Palmer. He claims that his investigations confirm that napalm and mustard gas was used in the Hiroshima attack and so therefore nuclear bombs just do not exist. TPTB use fear as a weapon.
My personal take is that Gregarin was not in the capsule, as they wanted a success, so they had to keep him alive.
Any MIG-21 pilot would not have a problem with 6-8 g's (I have 4 MIG-21 flights as pilot, including air combat maneuvering). No pilot skills required to be passenger in cannon ball space ship either. The MIG-21 I flew had a region right before landing where you were out of the ejection envelope, right when you needed to trust it the most. Was he murdered? I always thought so, but who knows. My landing parachute failed on my first flight. There is lots that can go wrong with that aircraft.
Nasa astronaut pilots do not need 5,000 hours minimum. Fighter pilots don't rack up that much time per year. A minimum of 1,500 hours for NASA pilots, and a minimum of much less for Russian pilots because Russian pilots got so little flight time, and always a graduate of Test Pilot School are the requirements. I could easily imagine a Russian cosmonaut with 700 or 800 hours, especially a MIG-21 pilot as each sortie lasts about an hour if you are maneuvering.
As for the moon landings, simple calculations reveal the BS of it all, not to mention transiting the Van Allen Belt at that time with that technology. Getting back would be near impossible at that time. Herman Kahn's "On Thermonuclear War" gives a pretty good understanding of the paranoia of the times; I find it very likely that in addition to graft there was much fear in the US of being nuked by the Russians, so they BS'd their way out of it by doing what we Americans do best; making a movie instead of the real deal. They assumed if they showed how technologically advance we were, that the Russians would be afraid to nuke us. Or something. Test pilots are very proud of stuff they do; yet you can watch the faces of those guys afterwards and see they are not proud but ashamed, as they should be.
I was a test pilot and astronaut finalist. You also can look it up; 1500 hours is required for NASA/US. Most of the astronaut pilots came from the fighter and attack communities; you would have about that amount of flight time after initial training, fleet tour, test pilot school and test pilot tour. By the time you get 5,000 hours as a fighter pilot you would be an old geezer (which I now am, heh).
Thanks - makes sense. Personally I have no idea about flying or min hours to be a Top Gun. 1500 hours sounds reasonable - about 1490 hours more training than Gagarin had :)
The space travel hoaxes, like Covid hysteria, Charlie Kirk's neck of steel, the magic bullet that killed JFK and Build 7 falling down in sympathy to the other two, are great examples of how dearly the masses cling to official lies. No matter how dumb, they will be believed in spite of any evidence to the contrary.
You have never worked on large projects it appears. Most people on even medium sized projects have no idea what is going on. This is especially true for contractors. Most of the 4 trillion (whatever made up # there is), worked on components. Many of these contractors did little to nothing in reality, simply delivering their service or product. If I built the door for the capsule why does that prove it went 500.000 miles? It proves nothing.
You also do not understand a simulation. A simulation imitates all aspects of a real event. There are 100 issues withe Apollo fraud, the photos are the least of their problems. Many of those are composites. Practically there was not enough fuel to go to the moon. A fact admitted to by the Nazi von Braun. I am to trust an org that constantly lies and whose space program was led by a Nazi? Pravda.
Thanks, yes, there is nothing so easy as to hide a lie in a crowd.
The same 'rationale' is given for the Rona plandemic. It cannot have been a 'con' because so many people were involved. But we know that it was planned, implemented and much of what the narrative offered from a 'virus' to the cure of the quackcines and their efficacy were simply lies.
Who knows if it’s real or not- The Alice in Wonderland effect- term coined by 3 letter “Agency” around 60’s . Create confusion in news media everywhere , with the intent of deceiving masses till they are clueless about what is real truth and or what is not. Very effective, as evidenced by ease of inducing a mass pysop on a dumbed down population,killing millions if not billions in the long run. Including leading people to line up for their own suicide via injection.
Most of us don't believe in a flat earth. As Tesla understood and in some ways proved, it is an electromagnetic dynamo (gravity, energy). This can only occur within an object that is not flat and has the right internal elements, and quite probably, a rotational movement to generate the magnetism. Of course Apollo et al is fake, a reasonable IQ, looking at the evidence and understanding basic maths reveals that lie.
lets hope petra - the psyop "detective" - does not find this article she will be angry and say: moon landings are 100% real i know this. and we ask her, so give us ur 100% proof it was real. she replies , i know 100% it was real, i have this feeling and it wqas such a great accomplishment. i ask, "accomplishment" for what or whom... no answer :P
Yuri Gagarin being a fraud is a big important piece of the puzzle I think. For me, the one good argument against the Moon Landing being fake is that the Russians didn't say anything about it, even though it would be easy to just blow the whole thing out of the water. Before this article, I've never heard of anyone ever giving a satisfactory answer to that objection. For instance, Bart Sibrel just glossed over the whole thing (from what I can tell anyways, I haven't read his book just listened to his interviews), he just talked about how America is supposedly being blackmailed by Russia and China over this (which may be true, but I remain skeptical on that end). But if the Russians have their own skeletons in their closet, then it made sense why they kept quiet. It doesn't even have to be some WWE-esque grand conspiracy which Candace Owens seem to hold to.
Good points Michael. The Russians now are saying quite publicly that Apollo was a fraud. They ran the photos through AI and AI spat out that they are composites. This has been known for a while (AI in many ways is old news). We need to keep in mind the billions the US Deep State gave the Russians in the 60s, 70s to keep it alive. The 'Cold War' was good for the military-space business. As the article mentions there was more collusion than competition and given the Russians frauds and piles of dead, and the Russian or Soviet to be precise, lack of PR acumen, a shouting match over Apollo would not benefit the Soviet state. We should also note that the American Deep State through various proxies (Jewish, Corporate, CIA etc) controls much of the world's 'media'. ps. not entirely sure what is going on with Ms Owens :)
Au contraire, I've never understood why that was a good argument. Consider the reality over the past 10 years, where most of the world thinks that Russia helped elect Trump in 2016, that Trump was a Russian asset, or even that Putin invaded Ukraine for no reason at all. The Russians can deny it, but 99% of Westerners will never hear the denials, and most of the other 1% won't believe them, anyways.
If we imagine that propaganda was stronger still, back then - it's not a surprise at all that the russians wouldn't try refute the Americans.
Good coment thanks. Yes the Trump-Russian collusion hoax (another Demon party-CIA fraud). The Soviet propaganda machine was once slicker than the Americans (say in the 1950s) but that changed in the 1960s once the CIA got heavily into the game. Marketing, perceived, alleged successes became as important as any real success. Billions were sent by the Americans to the Soviets to keep them alive (also via their proxies in France and West Germany). The idiot box and fake news came into the fore.
The Russians have their own frauds to hide (Gagarin, dozens of dead cosmonauts and animals). So it probably did not make sense to get into a shouting match with NASA over Apollo. That is changing with this forever war. Putin is very clear it was a fraud to divert attention from the disaster in Vietnam. It is true we rarely hear the 'other side' especially as regards Russia.
Just goes to show they’re all as bad as each other, just different levels of overt and covert propaganda. The absurdity of the cannon ball and its monument to such a feat is honestly laughable. More Fake-off than Take-off. Schoolboy pranks on a world stage. Get me off this planet.
Retold by the complaint 'media'. Then the story enters the textbooks, school systems, PhD (pretty happy dudes) programs, Hollyweird, the TV and is entered as canonical text in the gospel of 'The Science'. Nary a criticism in the entire process. As if the Soviets, who murdered dozens (more?) of humans and animals testing the radiation levels above 250 miles, did not lie.
The pseudoscience taught in schools is both tragic and hilarious. It’s a crime really. The reality that such ‘knowledge’ is applied in real world situations is truly astounding.
This whole post is misleading. Gagarin was not selected at random, nor did he lack preparation. He was part of the first cosmonaut group—roughly 20 candidates—who underwent nearly two years of intensive training. This included psychological evaluation, centrifuge and spinning-machine training to condition the vestibular apparatus, and extensive systems and flight preparation.
The blog’s argument relies heavily on Western authors who also promote Moon-landing hoax narratives, while ignoring Russian-language primary sources. The author’s inability to engage with those sources leads to omissions that are then presented as “evidence.”
Reinterpreting Gagarin’s flight as fraudulent serves a psychological purpose: it allows some Americans to swallow the hard pill of having been duped by their own government for decades and, effectively, outperformed by the Soviet Union.
The irony is that the Soviet program never attempted to fake a Moon landing; when Soviet engineers concluded it was not feasible, they abandoned the effort. The author instead projects a Western mindset—where deception is assumed—onto the Soviet space program, rather than engaging with the historical record.
There is no evidence he knew how to fly. He never had 1000s of hours of training. He was selected as the Communist-peasant-icon with good looks. He was trained in parachuting. The Soviets were engaged in fraud - just as the Americans were. The Soviets have layers of false claims - just as the Americans do. We can't state that 'Americans bad', 'Soviets good'. Just as we cannot say today, 'Russia bad', 'America good'.
Your response perfectly illustrates your own lack of understanding and overreliance on Western secondary sources, many of which are just as uninformed as you. They either never bothered to study primary Soviet documentation or dismiss it without reason, substituting assumptions for evidence.
Gagarin was part of a carefully selected group of about 20 cosmonauts in 1959. All of them underwent nearly two years of intensive training that included daily physical conditioning—gymnastics, ball games, swimming and diving, trampoline work, exercises on horizontal and parallel bars, weight training—along with centrifuge and spinning-machine sessions and psychological screening. Parachuting was only one small part of a comprehensive, highly structured program.
Your focus on Gagarin’s “peasant background” shows a fundamental misunderstanding of the Soviet system. Highlighting his working-class origins was not meant to imply a lack of skill or education; it simply reflected that the state allowed talented ordinary citizens access to advanced training. His background in no way diminishes the rigour of his selection or preparation.
The Soviet Union never claimed anything beyond what has been independently verified: that Gagarin orbited the Earth. Multiple cosmonauts from different countries have confirmed these facts, and orbital flight remains routine today. Projecting Western-style hoaxes onto the Soviet program says more about your ignorance than about Gagarin’s flight.
Seeing the world only through Western secondary sources leaves much in darkness. Labeling engagement with primary sources “pro-Soviet” shows that uncomfortable evidence is dismissed as ideology. That’s not analysis—it’s reflex.
Excellent article! Its strange how most of us never questioned the space hoax before, but the lies were jammed down our throats since birth so... Now we do and there is NO WAY anyone left our atmosphere. IMO, since I believe the Bible over any scientism mumbo jumbo, there is no space, only water above and below. The sun moon and stars are in our atmosphere, or firmament, as Genesis 1 describes.
I may not know the real truth, but I am sure it isn't what we are told.
I taught elementary school for years till 2020. It is easy to sway a young person's mind which school is designed to do. I did encourage them to question everything, even adults and books and news etc., since I was a rebel myself, but still a victim of the same system. However, because I was not afraid to question or disbelieve authority like people who are deemed "smarter" than myself... professors or doctors, etc., I was eventually able to emerge from the mind coma/capsule we are grown in. Sadly, ignorance is bliss because the world is a lie, but there is still hope... only in Jesus. I can find no other truth and satan is the father of lies. Just look at what nasa worships for example.
Thanks Dawn. Well done on your teaching experience and trying to promote critical thinking. Yes are all in the matrix, and we are all conditioned. Most moon-landing sceptics are people like yourself who prefer to think and consider, rather than bow to authority. I do believe that for 1969, the Apostles of Apollo 11 and their film was a fairly impressive achievement. In retrospect and hindsight it does look amatuerish. The Soviets and Gagarin - well what you can say really. It was a rushed high school production that no one should have believed.
What they don't teach is the massive simulation centres which can truly mimick the entire flight end to end and convince people it was 'tracked'. The Soviets were less sophisticated in using them than NASA in general. Given that NASA had to win or 'perish' (including losing its massive budget), it makes more sense to consider that a simulation was far easier, safer and 'guaranteed to succeed' than attempting out of nowhere a landing on the lunar surface with new tech. Same with the famous Shepard flight. A dead Shepard would have meant a dead NASA.
In Florida, every fifth grade class in my area goes to Kennedy Space Center and learn a bunch of garbage. I went once and don't remember seeing any water tanks or green screen filmings. I guess we didn't get to go behind the scenes of how it's really done. That set up is probably in Texas anyway.
Oh yes, the simulators are at the JSC and were in Langley. From CC to the Bahamas is a short flight, they would have 4 hours to do a Capricorn One. For NASA you launch the rocket, then the astronauts do a runner on a C-class McDonnell Douglas and are dropped near the landing zone. This was the 'guarantee' JFK needed.
👍 When they essentially closed the FL space center, I wondered what expensive secret nothing good stuff they would be doing there without oversight worse than before...
Thanks. It is difficult in today's zeitgeist to comprehend how the 'space race' was almost a question of national and systemic survival (whose system was superior). It was a zero sum game. If 'we lost' the Soviets were pre-eminent and would attain 'world mastery'.
One reason why the CIA assassinated Kennedy, was that he proposed a joint investigation of the moon with the Soviets. He and Kruschev and had agreed to a plan on how this would work. A few weeks later he was dead. This venture is now called ISS (int'l space stn). Another irony (future post on ISS and the many issues with that story). The Russians have been a very handy 'forever-enemy' for the CIA-US Deep State.
Excellent as always Doc Strangelove III, The truth of these many lies in their absolute can’t be verified. Christ called us to live not by fear, in how many ways? Tyrannical fear is the tool of a liar. Employing this heuristic, I’m no longer persuaded by the stories of nukes. Sure, one might concentrate some metals and boil water. However, the exponential nature of this reaction thereby k-boom reads like all other offramps for enquiring minds- too big, too far away, too small, too dangerous to be near or even imagine. Virus, nukes, bangs, space- all at a scale imperceptible to our God given senses. Thankyou again for your continuing demolition of these perverted gods.
Thanks, the fanboys and true believers have a difficult time with facts.
Where is the heat shield on Gagarin's cannon ball or on Grissom's wreck pulled out of the sea in 1999?
No heat shield = no flight.
Look for a book called Hiroshima Revisited by Michael Palmer. He claims that his investigations confirm that napalm and mustard gas was used in the Hiroshima attack and so therefore nuclear bombs just do not exist. TPTB use fear as a weapon.
My personal take is that Gregarin was not in the capsule, as they wanted a success, so they had to keep him alive.
Any MIG-21 pilot would not have a problem with 6-8 g's (I have 4 MIG-21 flights as pilot, including air combat maneuvering). No pilot skills required to be passenger in cannon ball space ship either. The MIG-21 I flew had a region right before landing where you were out of the ejection envelope, right when you needed to trust it the most. Was he murdered? I always thought so, but who knows. My landing parachute failed on my first flight. There is lots that can go wrong with that aircraft.
Nasa astronaut pilots do not need 5,000 hours minimum. Fighter pilots don't rack up that much time per year. A minimum of 1,500 hours for NASA pilots, and a minimum of much less for Russian pilots because Russian pilots got so little flight time, and always a graduate of Test Pilot School are the requirements. I could easily imagine a Russian cosmonaut with 700 or 800 hours, especially a MIG-21 pilot as each sortie lasts about an hour if you are maneuvering.
As for the moon landings, simple calculations reveal the BS of it all, not to mention transiting the Van Allen Belt at that time with that technology. Getting back would be near impossible at that time. Herman Kahn's "On Thermonuclear War" gives a pretty good understanding of the paranoia of the times; I find it very likely that in addition to graft there was much fear in the US of being nuked by the Russians, so they BS'd their way out of it by doing what we Americans do best; making a movie instead of the real deal. They assumed if they showed how technologically advance we were, that the Russians would be afraid to nuke us. Or something. Test pilots are very proud of stuff they do; yet you can watch the faces of those guys afterwards and see they are not proud but ashamed, as they should be.
Thanks for the info. Good comment. NASA claimed that 5000 hours of flight experience was a minimum, but as you say this could be completely false.
I was a test pilot and astronaut finalist. You also can look it up; 1500 hours is required for NASA/US. Most of the astronaut pilots came from the fighter and attack communities; you would have about that amount of flight time after initial training, fleet tour, test pilot school and test pilot tour. By the time you get 5,000 hours as a fighter pilot you would be an old geezer (which I now am, heh).
Thanks - makes sense. Personally I have no idea about flying or min hours to be a Top Gun. 1500 hours sounds reasonable - about 1490 hours more training than Gagarin had :)
The space travel hoaxes, like Covid hysteria, Charlie Kirk's neck of steel, the magic bullet that killed JFK and Build 7 falling down in sympathy to the other two, are great examples of how dearly the masses cling to official lies. No matter how dumb, they will be believed in spite of any evidence to the contrary.
A long list of them isn't it! My favorite is dinosaurs, or the tesla in orbit🤡🤡
Yep.
Cognitive dissonance is a thing.
God is that ever so true
Thanks for putting that into words 👍
A good psy op palters facts with fiction
You dumb psy op peddling idiot just did what the government does
USSR/Russia and the USA have been allies for a long-time. Seems all space travel back in the day was fake.
And now? Looks the same.
Yes, discussin the ISS in a few posts. Love the vids and photos of the falling objects in 0G... :)
Congratulations you are a fucking idiot to think that hundreds of thousands of those working on space tech were all in on a secret
You have never worked on large projects it appears. Most people on even medium sized projects have no idea what is going on. This is especially true for contractors. Most of the 4 trillion (whatever made up # there is), worked on components. Many of these contractors did little to nothing in reality, simply delivering their service or product. If I built the door for the capsule why does that prove it went 500.000 miles? It proves nothing.
You also do not understand a simulation. A simulation imitates all aspects of a real event. There are 100 issues withe Apollo fraud, the photos are the least of their problems. Many of those are composites. Practically there was not enough fuel to go to the moon. A fact admitted to by the Nazi von Braun. I am to trust an org that constantly lies and whose space program was led by a Nazi? Pravda.
Thank you for articulating this fact of compartmentalization clearly. Many cannot wrap their heads around it.
You keep truckin
Thanks, yes, there is nothing so easy as to hide a lie in a crowd.
The same 'rationale' is given for the Rona plandemic. It cannot have been a 'con' because so many people were involved. But we know that it was planned, implemented and much of what the narrative offered from a 'virus' to the cure of the quackcines and their efficacy were simply lies.
“We know they are lying, they know they are lying, they know we know they are lying…”
Who knows if it’s real or not- The Alice in Wonderland effect- term coined by 3 letter “Agency” around 60’s . Create confusion in news media everywhere , with the intent of deceiving masses till they are clueless about what is real truth and or what is not. Very effective, as evidenced by ease of inducing a mass pysop on a dumbed down population,killing millions if not billions in the long run. Including leading people to line up for their own suicide via injection.
William Casey, one-time head of the CIA, said exactly the same thing as you did, in somewhat fewer words.
One has to be fucking retarded if one believes earth is flat and space is a myth , and all the astronauts and cosmonauts were fake
That’s a fucking level of retardation is new high
Most of us don't believe in a flat earth. As Tesla understood and in some ways proved, it is an electromagnetic dynamo (gravity, energy). This can only occur within an object that is not flat and has the right internal elements, and quite probably, a rotational movement to generate the magnetism. Of course Apollo et al is fake, a reasonable IQ, looking at the evidence and understanding basic maths reveals that lie.
Very informative, thank you.
This information is also all in Gerhard Wisnewski's 2005 book "One Small Step? The Great Moon Hoax and the Race to Dominate Earth from Space"
Good read, mostly from A. Popov Phd, ‘The Joint Hoax?’, 2018 and other links provided https://www.aulis.com/apollo-soyuz1.htm
lets hope petra - the psyop "detective" - does not find this article she will be angry and say: moon landings are 100% real i know this. and we ask her, so give us ur 100% proof it was real. she replies , i know 100% it was real, i have this feeling and it wqas such a great accomplishment. i ask, "accomplishment" for what or whom... no answer :P
Yuri Gagarin being a fraud is a big important piece of the puzzle I think. For me, the one good argument against the Moon Landing being fake is that the Russians didn't say anything about it, even though it would be easy to just blow the whole thing out of the water. Before this article, I've never heard of anyone ever giving a satisfactory answer to that objection. For instance, Bart Sibrel just glossed over the whole thing (from what I can tell anyways, I haven't read his book just listened to his interviews), he just talked about how America is supposedly being blackmailed by Russia and China over this (which may be true, but I remain skeptical on that end). But if the Russians have their own skeletons in their closet, then it made sense why they kept quiet. It doesn't even have to be some WWE-esque grand conspiracy which Candace Owens seem to hold to.
Good points Michael. The Russians now are saying quite publicly that Apollo was a fraud. They ran the photos through AI and AI spat out that they are composites. This has been known for a while (AI in many ways is old news). We need to keep in mind the billions the US Deep State gave the Russians in the 60s, 70s to keep it alive. The 'Cold War' was good for the military-space business. As the article mentions there was more collusion than competition and given the Russians frauds and piles of dead, and the Russian or Soviet to be precise, lack of PR acumen, a shouting match over Apollo would not benefit the Soviet state. We should also note that the American Deep State through various proxies (Jewish, Corporate, CIA etc) controls much of the world's 'media'. ps. not entirely sure what is going on with Ms Owens :)
Au contraire, I've never understood why that was a good argument. Consider the reality over the past 10 years, where most of the world thinks that Russia helped elect Trump in 2016, that Trump was a Russian asset, or even that Putin invaded Ukraine for no reason at all. The Russians can deny it, but 99% of Westerners will never hear the denials, and most of the other 1% won't believe them, anyways.
If we imagine that propaganda was stronger still, back then - it's not a surprise at all that the russians wouldn't try refute the Americans.
Good coment thanks. Yes the Trump-Russian collusion hoax (another Demon party-CIA fraud). The Soviet propaganda machine was once slicker than the Americans (say in the 1950s) but that changed in the 1960s once the CIA got heavily into the game. Marketing, perceived, alleged successes became as important as any real success. Billions were sent by the Americans to the Soviets to keep them alive (also via their proxies in France and West Germany). The idiot box and fake news came into the fore.
The Russians have their own frauds to hide (Gagarin, dozens of dead cosmonauts and animals). So it probably did not make sense to get into a shouting match with NASA over Apollo. That is changing with this forever war. Putin is very clear it was a fraud to divert attention from the disaster in Vietnam. It is true we rarely hear the 'other side' especially as regards Russia.
Just goes to show they’re all as bad as each other, just different levels of overt and covert propaganda. The absurdity of the cannon ball and its monument to such a feat is honestly laughable. More Fake-off than Take-off. Schoolboy pranks on a world stage. Get me off this planet.
Retold by the complaint 'media'. Then the story enters the textbooks, school systems, PhD (pretty happy dudes) programs, Hollyweird, the TV and is entered as canonical text in the gospel of 'The Science'. Nary a criticism in the entire process. As if the Soviets, who murdered dozens (more?) of humans and animals testing the radiation levels above 250 miles, did not lie.
The pseudoscience taught in schools is both tragic and hilarious. It’s a crime really. The reality that such ‘knowledge’ is applied in real world situations is truly astounding.
"The ‘forever war’ is getting ever closer to a ‘hot war’ and potentially a nuclear exchange."
Sorry. There is no evidence for the existence of nuclear weapons. https://peteryim.substack.com/p/the-dubious-theory-of-nuclear-explosion
This whole post is misleading. Gagarin was not selected at random, nor did he lack preparation. He was part of the first cosmonaut group—roughly 20 candidates—who underwent nearly two years of intensive training. This included psychological evaluation, centrifuge and spinning-machine training to condition the vestibular apparatus, and extensive systems and flight preparation.
The blog’s argument relies heavily on Western authors who also promote Moon-landing hoax narratives, while ignoring Russian-language primary sources. The author’s inability to engage with those sources leads to omissions that are then presented as “evidence.”
Reinterpreting Gagarin’s flight as fraudulent serves a psychological purpose: it allows some Americans to swallow the hard pill of having been duped by their own government for decades and, effectively, outperformed by the Soviet Union.
The irony is that the Soviet program never attempted to fake a Moon landing; when Soviet engineers concluded it was not feasible, they abandoned the effort. The author instead projects a Western mindset—where deception is assumed—onto the Soviet space program, rather than engaging with the historical record.
There is no evidence he knew how to fly. He never had 1000s of hours of training. He was selected as the Communist-peasant-icon with good looks. He was trained in parachuting. The Soviets were engaged in fraud - just as the Americans were. The Soviets have layers of false claims - just as the Americans do. We can't state that 'Americans bad', 'Soviets good'. Just as we cannot say today, 'Russia bad', 'America good'.
Your response perfectly illustrates your own lack of understanding and overreliance on Western secondary sources, many of which are just as uninformed as you. They either never bothered to study primary Soviet documentation or dismiss it without reason, substituting assumptions for evidence.
Gagarin was part of a carefully selected group of about 20 cosmonauts in 1959. All of them underwent nearly two years of intensive training that included daily physical conditioning—gymnastics, ball games, swimming and diving, trampoline work, exercises on horizontal and parallel bars, weight training—along with centrifuge and spinning-machine sessions and psychological screening. Parachuting was only one small part of a comprehensive, highly structured program.
Your focus on Gagarin’s “peasant background” shows a fundamental misunderstanding of the Soviet system. Highlighting his working-class origins was not meant to imply a lack of skill or education; it simply reflected that the state allowed talented ordinary citizens access to advanced training. His background in no way diminishes the rigour of his selection or preparation.
The Soviet Union never claimed anything beyond what has been independently verified: that Gagarin orbited the Earth. Multiple cosmonauts from different countries have confirmed these facts, and orbital flight remains routine today. Projecting Western-style hoaxes onto the Soviet program says more about your ignorance than about Gagarin’s flight.
Thanks for the unique (pro Soviet) perspective. I am sure he saw America in the darkness.
Seeing the world only through Western secondary sources leaves much in darkness. Labeling engagement with primary sources “pro-Soviet” shows that uncomfortable evidence is dismissed as ideology. That’s not analysis—it’s reflex.
Excellent article! Its strange how most of us never questioned the space hoax before, but the lies were jammed down our throats since birth so... Now we do and there is NO WAY anyone left our atmosphere. IMO, since I believe the Bible over any scientism mumbo jumbo, there is no space, only water above and below. The sun moon and stars are in our atmosphere, or firmament, as Genesis 1 describes.
I may not know the real truth, but I am sure it isn't what we are told.
I taught elementary school for years till 2020. It is easy to sway a young person's mind which school is designed to do. I did encourage them to question everything, even adults and books and news etc., since I was a rebel myself, but still a victim of the same system. However, because I was not afraid to question or disbelieve authority like people who are deemed "smarter" than myself... professors or doctors, etc., I was eventually able to emerge from the mind coma/capsule we are grown in. Sadly, ignorance is bliss because the world is a lie, but there is still hope... only in Jesus. I can find no other truth and satan is the father of lies. Just look at what nasa worships for example.
Thanks Dawn. Well done on your teaching experience and trying to promote critical thinking. Yes are all in the matrix, and we are all conditioned. Most moon-landing sceptics are people like yourself who prefer to think and consider, rather than bow to authority. I do believe that for 1969, the Apostles of Apollo 11 and their film was a fairly impressive achievement. In retrospect and hindsight it does look amatuerish. The Soviets and Gagarin - well what you can say really. It was a rushed high school production that no one should have believed.
What they don't teach is the massive simulation centres which can truly mimick the entire flight end to end and convince people it was 'tracked'. The Soviets were less sophisticated in using them than NASA in general. Given that NASA had to win or 'perish' (including losing its massive budget), it makes more sense to consider that a simulation was far easier, safer and 'guaranteed to succeed' than attempting out of nowhere a landing on the lunar surface with new tech. Same with the famous Shepard flight. A dead Shepard would have meant a dead NASA.
In Florida, every fifth grade class in my area goes to Kennedy Space Center and learn a bunch of garbage. I went once and don't remember seeing any water tanks or green screen filmings. I guess we didn't get to go behind the scenes of how it's really done. That set up is probably in Texas anyway.
Oh yes, the simulators are at the JSC and were in Langley. From CC to the Bahamas is a short flight, they would have 4 hours to do a Capricorn One. For NASA you launch the rocket, then the astronauts do a runner on a C-class McDonnell Douglas and are dropped near the landing zone. This was the 'guarantee' JFK needed.
👍 When they essentially closed the FL space center, I wondered what expensive secret nothing good stuff they would be doing there without oversight worse than before...
Excellent summary and narrative - In these times of deception, the truth can be an act of heresy….
Thanks. It is difficult in today's zeitgeist to comprehend how the 'space race' was almost a question of national and systemic survival (whose system was superior). It was a zero sum game. If 'we lost' the Soviets were pre-eminent and would attain 'world mastery'.
One reason why the CIA assassinated Kennedy, was that he proposed a joint investigation of the moon with the Soviets. He and Kruschev and had agreed to a plan on how this would work. A few weeks later he was dead. This venture is now called ISS (int'l space stn). Another irony (future post on ISS and the many issues with that story). The Russians have been a very handy 'forever-enemy' for the CIA-US Deep State.
Bull crap. Moon landing was fake