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Cosmonaut Cover-Up [VHS]

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Governmental cover-ups. They occur even deep in the outer limits of space. Witness "The Cosmonaut Cover-Up," a most fascinating documentary that puts the real spin on heavenly history. According to history books, Yuri Gagarin was, in 1961, the first man to make a single orbit around the earth. Or so they say. Recently declassified evidence from Kremlin archives, along with interviews with Khrushchev's son and the former Director of the Russian Space Agency, tell a different story. The truth. The first man in space was Vladimir Ilyushin, a cosmonaut that blasted into space, orbited the earth then crash landed in a remote area of China. And it was this crash landing that so embarrassed the Soviet government that they went to great lengths to cover up the truth ... and change the course of history. The Kremlin destroyed all evidence of Ilyushin's mission (including films and photos) and ordered people who knew the truth to "keep quiet" ... or else. The thinking was simple: If the world (read: America) learns that the space flight was not totally successful, it would indicate that Soviets - and the Soviet space program - were weak. "The Cosmonaut Cover-Up" tells this tale in a most riveting manner, including interviews with eyewitnesses and Dr. Dennis Ogden, one of the first reporters to spill the beans, who reveals the constant threats made against his life and the fear in which he and his informant lived. (Ilyushin still lives in Moscow; he agreed to participate with the making of this film, and then backed out at the last minute.) Blast off for some a great history lesson.