And this is how they rewrite past history to favour themselves:
https://futurism.com/space-conference-censors-yuri-gagarin/

Whipping themselves into a Freedom Fries-esque fit of censoriousness, a space industry conference has removed the name of celebrated Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, the first human to travel into space, from an event.

The nonprofit Space Foundation announced in a now-deleted note that “in light of current world events” it would be changing the name of a fundraiser from “Yuri’s Night” to “A Celebration of Space: Discover What’s Next” at its Space Symposium conference.

“The focus of this fundraising event remains the same — to celebrate human achievements in space while inspiring the next generation to reach for the stars,” the deleted update notes.

It’s a rather dubious show of solidarity with the Ukrainian people, especially considering that Gagarin worked for the USSR, a completely different country from modern day Russia. And the icing on the cake? Ukraine actually appears to be rather fond of Gagarin and his monumental achievement.

Erasing the name of the first person to ever fly to space while supposedly celebrating “human achievements in space” is bad enough.

But doing so in line with the milquetoast trend of disavowing all things Russian, including famous composers and food products, amid the country’s current invasion of Ukraine is just outrageous.

For instance, a 2011 Ukraine stamp commemorated the 50th anniversary of his pioneering space flight. And the recently-bombed Chernihiv Stadium was renamed by the Soviets as the “Yuri Gagarin Stadium” back in the 1960s, and is also still referred to as such by fans despite a new official name.

In a post published last year about Gagarin’s often-overlooked relationship with Ukraine, the country’s Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute noted that during his first and only visit to the capitol city in 1966, the cosmonaut had kind words to say about the country’s capital, which was part of the USSR at the time.

“My friend Pavel Popovich told me a lot about the beauty of Kyiv,” Gagarin reportedly said when visiting school children at a youth center, “but what I’ve seen with my eyes is incomparable to what I’ve heard!”

It’s far from the first time on-Earth geopolitics have affected the world of spaceflight — hell, NASA likely wouldn’t have made it to the Moon as soon as it did if it hadn’t been for the Cold War.

Space cooperation between the United States and Russia has led to decades of remarkable international unity and scientific research, even as politics have, on occasion, strained that delicate alliance.

Censoring Yuri Gagarin’s name will not help a single Ukrainian fend off Russia’s invasion, but it does serve as yet another reminder that fair weather activism often flies in the face of reality.

https://www.rt.com/news/552265-space-conference-cancels-cosmonaut-over-ukraine/

Event named after Yuri Gagarin, first human in space, is retitled amid Moscow’s military offensive in Ukraine

Legendary cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin has been caught up in the global push to punish all things Russian amid the Ukraine crisis, despite having died more than half a century ago.

A major US space industry conference has censored Gagarin’s name, essentially canceling the first human to travel into outer space. The Space Foundation, a Colorado-based not-for-profit group led largely by aerospace industry executives, altered the agenda for its upcoming Space Symposium in April, renaming a fundraising party that used to be titled “Yuri’s Night.”

The group noted that “in light of current world events,” the fundraiser had been renamed “A Celebration of Space: Discover What’s Next.” That page was later deleted and replaced with an updated conference agenda that excluded the explanation for canceling Gagarin.

The annual Space Symposium is in its 37th year and costs nearly $3,000 to attend with a “premium access” pass. It typically attracts about 10,000 space-industry professionals from around the world. The focus of the renamed event remains the same – “to celebrate human achievements in space while inspiring the next generation to reach for the stars,” the foundation said.

Gagarin made such an achievement in April 1961, traveling in the Vostok 1 capsule in an orbit of Earth. The historic feat made him an international celebrity and earned him such honors as being granted the title ‘Hero of the Soviet Union,’ the nation’s highest award. A native of a small village west of Moscow, he died at the age of 34 in 1968, while serving as a flight instructor.

The cosmonaut becomes the latest Russian icon to be posthumously punished as the US and its NATO allies impose sweeping sanctions on Moscow over the war in Ukraine. For instance, a university in Milan canceled a course on novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky, while the Cardiff Philharmonic in Wales nixed plans for a Tchaikovsky program.

Of course, living Russians have also been targeted with sanctions and scorn, from President Vladimir Putin to opera stars to athletes. The fallout has extended even to Russian cats, which were banned from overseas competitions by the International Feline Federation in Paris.

https://thepostmillennial.com/major-space-conference-removes-name-of-first-man-in-space-because-he-was-russian

https://www.opindia.com/2022/03/space-foundation-censures-name-of-soviet-cosmonaut-yuri-gagarin-citing-russian-invasion-of-ukraine-details

Imagine! hypocrisy of the highest order.what did u do when USA invaded Iraq, Afghanistan,etc?


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We know what US are planning, them wan use back door put themselves there, UK and US are good at re-writing people history.

Thieves

Elvictor:
We know what US are planning, them wan use back door put themselves there, UK and US are good at re-writing people history.

Thieves

Yes... Look at this also, yet they'd claim and say otherwise.

cloudseth:


Yes... Look at this also, yet they'd claim and say otherwise.

We need miseducation in Nigeria, the UK have really dealt with us, the West have picture Russia as people who hate blacks, I wouldn't have known the first person to appear in space was actually a black man, that Russia projected.

I don't why I supported Russia, now I am proud of my rationality after reading this, thank you boss

Elvictor:


We need miseducation in Nigeria, the UK have really dealt with us, the West have picture Russia as people who hate blacks, I wouldn't have known the first person to appear in space was actually a black man, that Russia projected.

I don't why I supported Russia, now I am proud of my rationality after reading this, thank you boss

I'm guessing you meant the first person with African ancestry/Black to be in space and not the first person to be in space...

Africa really needs to look into itself to find, write and protect its history. This has shown us a little glimpse of what they did to Africa's history and how they carted away and burned all stored knowledge in medieval Egypt so they could rewrite to make themselves superior.

Russia isn't US mate. That they don't make noise in their achievements doesn't mean any country can walk over them.

Now, is this necessary?

Over sabi and total cancellation culture is killing the West.

I've just learned something very educating today.