“At least this gives us something new to dream about. “They’ve been feeding us rubbish about the dream of Communism for years, and we now see they were lying,” a Soviet source told TIME in 1989. Book author Annie Jacobsen, who penned the 2011 book Area 51: An Uncensored History, has argued Roswell was part of a wider conspiracy to distract the US from Russian activities. Though many educated Soviets objected strongly to the anti-scientific trend in the state media, UFOs weren’t the only fake reports for them to be mad about. More importantly, at a time when hope for the Soviet Union was waning, stories of aliens and mystical creatures provided something a little less depressing to think about. Von Braun joined Fairchild Industries as a Vice President for Engineering and Development. For one thing, the policy of glasnost - openness in the media - was still relatively new, and publications were experimenting with how far they could go. Chua-Eoan explained, there was actually a pretty good reason for TASS and other Soviet news outlets to go nuts for crazy news like this. To the chagrin of Soviet scientists, the thought bacteria are everywhere.īut, as writer Howard G. “That will mean no return for you and danger for us.” And if you decide to sit through this crashingly loud apocalyptic Russian sci-fi, you may find yourself willing the fate of the Earth to hurry on up. “The Red Star of the Constellation of Libra is our home.” The same story transcribed a telepathic discourse between Pavel Mukhortov, a journalist from Riga, and an all-too-knowing extraterrestrial. Earlier in the year, the newspaper Socialist Industry reported an “encounter” between a milkmaid in the region of Perm and a cosmic creature that looked like a man but was “taller than average with shorter legs.” Last week the Soviet newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda declared that not only had an Abominable Snowman been caught stealing apples in the Saratov region but researchers had “registered the influence of energies” at a site in Perm, leading a geologist to conclude that they had discovered a landing field for flying saucers.
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