This anti-Russia thing is going too far. It's beginning to sound like racism.

Yuri Gagarin, the first person in space, has had his name removed from a Space Foundation fundraiser, following Russia's invasion of Ukraine

Yuri Gagarin has had his name removed from the US-based Space Foundation's fundraising event.

The Soviet cosmonaut was the first person to fly to space on April 12, 1961.

The nonprofit organization decided to change the name of the fundraiser amid "current world events."

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Oster1 · M

Let's just say, "propaganda, at it's best propagation".🤔

RocktheHouse · M

@Oster1 This propaganda has actually been going on since the cold war. Russianphobia is nothing new.

Oster1 · M

@RocktheHouse Exactly! we should have partnered together, much earlier!

newjaninev2 · 56-60, F

@RocktheHouse It’s not russophobia... it’s global contempt for russia’s murderous invasion of the sovereign democracy of Ukraine, and for the lying war criminal putin who leads russia.

SW-User

@newjaninev2 what does any of that have to do with a cosmonaut who has been dead since 1968?