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		HatchedLake721 on April 12, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Yuri Gagarin: Sixty years since the first man went... Why 1991? Even though USSR collapsed, whatever was sealed, is still sealed to this day.

konart on April 12, 2021 | [–]

>Why 1991? Even though USSR collapsed, whatever was sealed, is still sealed to this day.

Some documents are sealed but many were declassified since then.

inglor_cz on April 12, 2021 | [–]

People talk. A lot. And the post-1990 economic situation in Russia was so bad that at least some of the surviving witnesses would be tempted to sell the story.

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