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Hello, All!

Did you know that the first human astronaut was RUSSIAN?

With best regards, Steve Barn. E-mail:

His name was Yury Gagarin. Everyone should know this.
And he wasn't russian. He was soviet.

best regards,
Alexander
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Hello, All!

Did you know that the first human astronaut was RUSSIAN?

With best regards, Steve Barn. E-mail:

In article ,
wrote:
His name was Yury Gagarin. Everyone should know this.
And he wasn't russian. He was soviet.

He was both, actually. Soviet by nationality, Russian by ethnicity.
(And although the Soviet Union was theoretically a federation of equal
republics, in practice it was very much the Russian Empire by a new name.)
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Hello, Henry!
You wrote on Sun, 13 Jun 2004 21:33:34 GMT:

?? His name was Yury Gagarin. Everyone should know this.
?? And he wasn't russian. He was soviet.

HS He was both, actually. Soviet by nationality, Russian by ethnicity.
HS (And although the Soviet Union was theoretically a federation of equal
HS republics, in practice it was very much the Russian Empire by a new
HS name.) --

No.

Russian by nationality, Soviet by citizenship.

With best regards, Ilya Chernyh. E-mail:

On Sun, 13 Jun 2004 21:21:44 +0400, "Steve Barn"
wrote:

Hello, All!

Did you know that the first human astronaut was RUSSIAN?

With best regards, Steve Barn. E-mail:


The big question is, what nationality will the last astronaut be?

Bob

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Hello, All!

Did you know that the first human astronaut was RUSSIAN?

And in other news, Generalissimo Francisco Franco is STILL DEAD.


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