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submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by MiraculousMM@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net
 

soviet-heart ussr-cry

edit: one of these heroes is Stanislav Petrov, idk who the other one is unfortunately

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[–] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 88 points 5 months ago (5 children)

I feel the same way about the first man and woman in space, but lord forbid we make statues of actual heroes instead of checks notes slavers and genociders

[–] Wheaties@hexbear.net 72 points 5 months ago

I think the couple that leaked microfilm detailing how to make a nuke to the USSR are heroes of the globe.

[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 43 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Gagarin do have quite a lot of monuments including at least one in USA, and this absolute banger of a scultpure: . Tereshkova also have several ones.

[–] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 19 points 5 months ago
[–] Hexamerous@hexbear.net 37 points 5 months ago

Their cult of personality.

Our great men of history.

[–] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 37 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Not a statue but I did manange to snag a one of these coins. It was the first in an Interkosmos series before they stopped it after the war broke out.

[–] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 16 points 5 months ago

That's so fucking pretty. I want one

[–] comrade_pibb@hexbear.net 14 points 5 months ago
[–] KrasMazov@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 5 months ago

That's so cooooooooool

[–] kristina@hexbear.net 22 points 5 months ago (1 children)

First woman in space is kinda bad tho

[–] miz@hexbear.net 27 points 5 months ago (3 children)

thought Valentina Tereshkova was okay? or did she takes some terrible positions when she got elected to the duma

[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 34 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

She went liberal. Classical story of become a hero and live long enough to turn into a villain.

[–] gay_king_prince_charles@hexbear.net 28 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] stink@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 5 months ago