Gagarin: ‘A Great Soviet Hero Who Easily Crossed Into Being A Great Russian Hero’

Fifty years ago this week, on April 12, 1961, Soviet cosmonaut Yury Gagarin blasted off into space, becoming an overnight star. Thereafter, the Kremlin scripted most of what was written about him. Writer and filmmaker Jamie Doran, in a new biography co-authored with Piers Bizony and titled “Starman: The Truth Behind The Legend Of Yuri […]