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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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I don’t like russians anymore 👎
SW-User
@Vivaci well that’s sad
@SW-User …I’m seeing their years of bullying and oppression more vividly now.
newjaninev2 · 56-60, F
@Vivaci You’re not alone in that.

The global community of nations condemns their barbarity in Ukraine. On the up-side, they still have North Korea and Belarus as friends
@newjaninev2 All communists cum autocratic peas in a pod. 🙄

We should put them all in a spaceship 🚀 and blast them into space like General Zod trio…