@josephkrengel @KenTremendous It was essentially a convenient way for the burgeoning nation to invent a creation myth that didn’t involve the British
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@MadvikHUN@SciGuySpace That and she was attractive, “Gagarin in a skirt”. Ponomareva meanwhile, who was an actual pilot, did not smile enough and wasn’t as pretty.