Remembering the Space Age. - Black Vault Radio Network (BVRN)

270 reMeMBerING the SpaCe aGe
Soviet union had sent men and a woman into space, those individuals were
forever bound to the Soviet ideology of the 1960s. For that reason, the post-
Soviet reassessment of the early years of human spacefight paid close attention
to the cosmonaut’s relationship with the state. One consequence was that these
flms extricated spacefight and cosmonauts from their ideological burden
by passing the judgment that what might have held cosmonauts back from
fulflling the spacefight dreams of the 1920s. according to these directors, it
had been ideology and not technology. as tsiolkovskii had predicted, humans
had emerged from the cradle of earth, but it was from the gravesite of the
Soviet union that cosmonauts gained their freedom from ideological burdens.