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Gagarin - First man in space

Gagarin - First man in space

The newspaper report is taken from a newspaper published in West-Berlin but made by the SED the Communist Party of East-Germany (DDR). The report praises the success of the first trip of a human beeing into the space and underlines that this success was reached by peacful Soviet Uniion and not by the exploitative capitalist countries.

"The way up" - "Der Weg nach oben"

The source describes the success of the Soviet Union having the first man ever in space. A triumph ober the USA - specialy in the political view.