This relationship is quite poetic and sad....this is something worthy of a movie or a mini docu series like Chernobyl. Thank you for this excellent video.
@@peppertrout I would have rather seen it reformed slowly but surely a process that had started with Khrushchev(unless the reforms started after Stalin were completed, the USSR would collapse, unlike China, which did complete its reforms), instead of allowing it to collapse, leading to the horrible times the post-soviet people experienced in the 90s and after, and then the fascist dictatorship in Russia right now. My mother got into the best theatre/acting school in the USSR in 1990/1991. After its collapse, she lost all that instantly, all the money her grandmother saved up her whole life(most likely thousands of rubles, and that was a lot considering monthly salary was 100), was gone in an instant. All the post-soviet leaders either became dictators or sold off all the soviet union to their friends(creating oligarchs), like Yeltsin did. And now the countries of eastern Europe and central Asia are either run by dictators like Putin, or in extremely horrible conditions, like Bulgaria or the Baltics(Poland is an exception). And now, Putin is invading Ukraine, stealing hundreds of thousands of children, and millions are suffering because of something that was thought to be unthinkable when the USSR still existed(Russia and Ukraine fighting). And I feel this even greater, as I myself am a Ukrainian, and so is all of my family.(from Odessa and Kiev mostly). I will say that although I am not a usual socialist, I am a revisionist socialist(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revisionism_(Marxism)), so I may be slightly biased, but the government of the Soviet Union did follow a different ideology which I do not agree with, and was authoritarian, which I do not agree with as well, so do not think me to be something like a tankie or whatever they call them.
Communism is fundamentally authoritarian. Government holding too much power is never a good thing. They should only hold power of vital sectors like health industry.
Soviet union was full of incredible people with incredible minds, their engineering breakthroughs, especially considering their limitations, were absolutely amazing, but the system was terrible, and genius never got recognised or awarded. Truly a tragic story
Every achievement of the Soviet Union was made possible with the blood of Soviet citizens. Komarov and Gagarin’s friendship was both touching and heartbreaking.
@@nipcoyote1140 - What is your point? How could you ethically be involved in a project where human life was an afterthought? Why would you work with a company voluntarily sending people to their death for the glory of the USSR?
Thank you for debunking the "screaming cosmonaut" hoax. There are NO "secret recordings" of Komarov yelling, cursing, crying or anything of that nature. He was professional until the very end. His reputation does not deserve sullying.
In my opinion this supposed "fact" didn't diminish the person. It was actually fitting on the whole mission up to that point, a professional that was just fed up with everything and spoke the truth.
@SnoopyDoo he literally said and showed pictures of the state funeral? and he said was that won't bring him back to his family which was his point if you'd actually listen to what he's saying.
Your ability to paint the reality of the situation, the stakes at-risk but also the talents you display for injecting personal nuance and the chemistry between those that did whatever they could to succeed, or to hold back the tide of ill-advised choices made on their behalf.... It saddens me that you don't have the exposure/recognition/compensation that such efforts would warrant. In a perfect world. Many thanks for all the work you've poured into this, greatly looking forward to devouring your content 👍🍻
This channel deserves orders of magnitude more views than it has. I subbed, you've got a great sense for interesting topics that I don't often see covered elsewhere if ever. Keep up the good work!
The story of Gagarin's death is still classified. The version you told is believed by Leonov (the plane was Su-15, not MiG-21 btw), but not the only one.
This is amazing work. The chilling background music and visuals just at the 8:00 mark. Thank goodness for UA-cam to give guys like this a platform... but these damn algorithms...How am I only finding this THREE years later when Ive been watching a hour of history for 900 nights without seeing this suggested?!
Thank you for this excellent account. We do not always get clear mindedII info on Soviet space accomplishments but this one is different, giving the hero Komarov -- and Gagarin -- his due.
Aside from calling it an aircraft couple times, this an awesome video. Well researched and unbiased telling of history. Thank you for that and the ending of Gagarin.
"We, the unwilling, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible with completely inadequate weapons. We have done so much for so long, with so little, that we are now fully qualified to do anything with absolutely nothing at all..."
Beginning the video with "SФЧЦZ" on the screen just... hurt. It was pain to have a mix of Latin characters and incorrect Cyrillic be used in the first frame. BUT! Good video! I think it really shows the flaws of Brezhnev's premiership, his sheer vanity and treatment of people and the USSR as a whole as a muscle which he flexed to show off power and wealth, power and wealth he hoarded worse than the capitalists he and the ideology he claimed to stand so often depicted. Even more important than that however, I think it shows deserved respect to Kamarov, and shows how Gagarin tried his best to be a true friend to the doomed cosmonaut.
There is an old saying " Hast makes waste . " Technical problems that had to be corrected were not corrected . Decisions in higher positions of powet had no Technical Knowledge. Had they corrected these problems this would not have happened. There was not even one unmanned flight to test this new spacecraft. Komarov was very Brave to do what he did. Thank You for this Excellent Video !
I wasn't aware of this event, as I'm not very familiar with the Soviet space program. The story legitimately deserves to be described with these two over-used words: epic tragedy. Bravery, honor, camaraderie, and loyalty, in the face of government deception, ignorance, and betrayal permiate the story. It would, as others on here have already suggested, make for an excellent movie, or Netflix series. RIP Yuri Gagarin and Vladimir Komarov
As someone who can read Cyrillic characters: the misuse of them is so confounding and really messes my brain up. I wish the English speaking internet would knock it off. 😂
This video is like the vast majority I see on any subject: Very informative, but with incredibly inept presentation. The narrator seems to have a very shaky grasp of the language, although he seems to have a native accent.
Even if you want to say who flew into orbit twice, disregarding Grissom's suborbital first flight, it would have been Gordon Cooper on MA-9 and Gemini 5.
Komarov wasn't the first person to go to space twice, that was Grissom, although his first flight was suborbital. He had died earlier the same year in Apollo 1.
For real. Gagarin and Komarov are probably among the best test pilots the world has ever seen, and they killed one just so they could hit a launch date based on a history book, and silenced the other about it.
A minor correction: I don't know if you meant Komarov was the first Cosmonaut to fly twice into space because several US astronauts had two flights before 1967. Besides Grissom, Cooper & Schirra, who flew once each in Mercury & Gemini, Conrad, Lovell and Stafford each flew twice in Gemini, which ended in December 1966. Stafford, because he was a replacement on Gemini 9 for Elliot See, who was killed in a plane crash, flew twice within seven months, December 1965 and June 1966. On the political end, one wonders if Brezhnev's less than enthusiastic attitude towards the Soviet space program was a result of it being seen as Khrushchev's "baby", and with Khrushchev being eliminated, the program suffered from lower prestige and a reduced priority in the Soviet budget.
I never bought the story about Gagarin's death. I'm not sure if confronted Brezhnev about soyuz 1 directly or indirectly but it was no secret that he blamed him.
"there are only good people and good people on both sides, but there are also good leader and bad leader on both sides.All the difference between good and bad can only be seen i hindsight, not in foresight. i just wish that one day those good people come forward in peace when those bad leader come to face war." emperor Tsiya Milvarta Shianvle
Vladimir Komarov on the Soyuz 1, and Gus Grissom, Edward White and Roger Schafee on the Apollo 1. 1967 was a terrible year for spaceflight. Komarov crashed in the Soviet Union at the speed of 320 km/h (200 mph).
Faux Cyrillic can be weird, I'm a native English speaker who took 4 years of Russian in high school a couple years back, and it took me 20 seconds and a lot more thinking about it than it should have to realize that said Soyuz and Sfchuz, my brain was able to immediately recognize that the second to last letter was meant to be read as U and not a ts.
@lagboi4539 I forget the specific serial ID for the prototype X-15.. But I do remember the mission when it was reported in the news. I also remember when Walker received a lapel pin commemorating him as the first US astronaut because he'd been to space. I think this was before Gegarinn. It was so long ago; but it made a big impression in my memory. Because it made me even more proud of America and our Heros.
@@silentechoes314 Nope lol, i've tried multiple methods but yet to find the correct song i also tried the song linked in the desc but it seems to be a different song
Well, those are not quite Cyrillic characters used wrong, but rather a stylistic choice in using Latin characters modified to look like Cyrillic. I mean, the author doesn't pretend that those are Cyrillic, he's just taking liberties with the Latin ones, like an artistic license. Think the opening sequence from Red Heat with Arnold Schwarzenegger.
09:54 - “…and became the first man to venture into the unknown on two occasions.” Actually, Gus Grissom was the first to go into space twice: Mercury-Redstone 4 (1961) and Gemini III (1965). Apollo 1 was to have made him the first to go three times. Komarov was the first to go into orbit twice.
This relationship is quite poetic and sad....this is something worthy of a movie or a mini docu series like Chernobyl. Thank you for this excellent video.
Would luv if HBO adapts dis into a Chernobyl like mini series
I aree
Becaraful what you wish for. The woke brigade will turn it into a love affair
Like a Russian 'The Right Stuff'
@@madzen112 Congrats on being the first in this thread to spell correctly.😂
A political commissar like Brezhnev would have only shed a tear if Komarov’s death made him look bad.
yeah, other than being a good kisser, Brezhnev ruined and doomed the USSR to destruction.
@@Blazeit-rj3eb The dooming and ruining of a communist state part, I don't so much mind.
@@peppertrout I would have rather seen it reformed slowly but surely a process that had started with Khrushchev(unless the reforms started after Stalin were completed, the USSR would collapse, unlike China, which did complete its reforms), instead of allowing it to collapse, leading to the horrible times the post-soviet people experienced in the 90s and after, and then the fascist dictatorship in Russia right now. My mother got into the best theatre/acting school in the USSR in 1990/1991. After its collapse, she lost all that instantly, all the money her grandmother saved up her whole life(most likely thousands of rubles, and that was a lot considering monthly salary was 100), was gone in an instant. All the post-soviet leaders either became dictators or sold off all the soviet union to their friends(creating oligarchs), like Yeltsin did. And now the countries of eastern Europe and central Asia are either run by dictators like Putin, or in extremely horrible conditions, like Bulgaria or the Baltics(Poland is an exception). And now, Putin is invading Ukraine, stealing hundreds of thousands of children, and millions are suffering because of something that was thought to be unthinkable when the USSR still existed(Russia and Ukraine fighting). And I feel this even greater, as I myself am a Ukrainian, and so is all of my family.(from Odessa and Kiev mostly). I will say that although I am not a usual socialist, I am a revisionist socialist(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revisionism_(Marxism)), so I may be slightly biased, but the government of the Soviet Union did follow a different ideology which I do not agree with, and was authoritarian, which I do not agree with as well, so do not think me to be something like a tankie or whatever they call them.
Communism is fundamentally authoritarian. Government holding too much power is never a good thing. They should only hold power of vital sectors like health industry.
@@Blazeit-rj3eb All socialists are revisionists in the end.
We should all strive to be friends like Komarov. Holy hell, that dude was loyal.
A simple upvote doesn't even begin to do this video justice. Extremely detailed research, perfectly told story. Thank you!
redditor moment
@@willwillbill6353 updoot🤓😭
@@willwillbill6353thanks kind stranger
@@willwillbill6353 beat me to it
This isn't reddit loser
Komarov comes across as a highly decent person - very professional and understanding the screwed up system he lived under.
Soviet union was full of incredible people with incredible minds, their engineering breakthroughs, especially considering their limitations, were absolutely amazing, but the system was terrible, and genius never got recognised or awarded. Truly a tragic story
@@MrChoklad And that's why they fell.
This got me emotional for a person that rarely sheds a tear. Thank you for sharing this story in such a beautiful way.
Every achievement of the Soviet Union was made possible with the blood of Soviet citizens. Komarov and Gagarin’s friendship was both touching and heartbreaking.
Like every achievement,for example,this basic fact about,human body contain 80% water..Japan 731 made horroble tests for this
Do y'all think Komarov and Gagarin ever 69ed? There's film of them kissing on the lips. 🤷🏻♂️
@@HolyGuacamolean💀💀
@@Georges_IV Is that them after they finished? 🤣
To this day...
As an engineer on the Soyuz program, I must say this is one of best and most well researched videos on the topic.
Are you still a Soyuz engineer?
Guess not.
He probably isn’t actually an engineer, and if so, he should be ashamed
@@ElectronFieldPulse Soyuz still flies today.
@@nipcoyote1140 - What is your point? How could you ethically be involved in a project where human life was an afterthought? Why would you work with a company voluntarily sending people to their death for the glory of the USSR?
Thank you for debunking the "screaming cosmonaut" hoax. There are NO "secret recordings" of Komarov yelling, cursing, crying or anything of that nature. He was professional until the very end. His reputation does not deserve sullying.
Are you saying he got the men's butts discount?
In my opinion this supposed "fact" didn't diminish the person. It was actually fitting on the whole mission up to that point, a professional that was just fed up with everything and spoke the truth.
Commie
Idk how being human would "diminish" him tho
@@SpicyTexan64 wow, I'm sure you are smart and not a 13 year old troll
This has to be the most underrated channel. The story telling and imagery 💯
@SnoopyDoo this is so pedantic no one cares
@SnoopyDoo he literally said and showed pictures of the state funeral? and he said was that won't bring him back to his family which was his point if you'd actually listen to what he's saying.
Your ability to paint the reality of the situation, the stakes at-risk but also the talents you display for injecting personal nuance and the chemistry between those that did whatever they could to succeed, or to hold back the tide of ill-advised choices made on their behalf....
It saddens me that you don't have the exposure/recognition/compensation that such efforts would warrant. In a perfect world.
Many thanks for all the work you've poured into this, greatly looking forward to devouring your content 👍🍻
Komarov sacrificing himself to the mission for Gagarin's sake is just... man, that's painfully sad. Hat's off to ya, Komarov.
i just found this channel & i’ve been binge watching every single video. keep up the amazing work!
This channel deserves orders of magnitude more views than it has. I subbed, you've got a great sense for interesting topics that I don't often see covered elsewhere if ever. Keep up the good work!
Brilliantly told, and wonderful research. An amazing channel. Kudos
The story of Gagarin's death is still classified. The version you told is believed by Leonov (the plane was Su-15, not MiG-21 btw), but not the only one.
komarov died on soyuz 1, not gargarin.
@@delusionss5 found someone who didn't watch the video to the end...
i watched it in it's fullest, and still don't get it
@@delusionss5agarin died later, allegedly in an aircraft accident.
The video talks about it at around 16:45
Gagarin died in an accident in a MiG-15
I honestly would have never know about this if it wasn't for this channel, thanks IMPERIAL, for the wonderful video.
This is amazing work. The chilling background music and visuals just at the 8:00 mark. Thank goodness for UA-cam to give guys like this a platform... but these damn algorithms...How am I only finding this THREE years later when Ive been watching a hour of history for 900 nights without seeing this suggested?!
I love coming finding new channels w/ unbelievable good creators & content!! Cheers my friend 👏 👏
Your writing is beautiful and you tell this story really well
Pronunciations on point!
Well done on the video and great research.
Pls keep these videos up I promise you will get somewhere with this quality I’m so happy I found this underrated channel
Thank you for this excellent account. We do not always get clear mindedII info on Soviet space accomplishments but this one is different, giving the hero Komarov -- and Gagarin -- his due.
its mindblowing how little subs this channel have. the best content i've ever found in more than +10 years using the site.
Absolutely stunning, brilliant research
Aside from calling it an aircraft couple times, this an awesome video. Well researched and unbiased telling of history. Thank you for that and the ending of Gagarin.
"We, the unwilling, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible with completely inadequate weapons. We have done so much for so long, with so little, that we are now fully qualified to do anything with absolutely nothing at all..."
immense video.. thank you again 🙏
This needs so many more views honestly
14:33 thank you for not censoring that image.
Beginning the video with "SФЧЦZ" on the screen just... hurt. It was pain to have a mix of Latin characters and incorrect Cyrillic be used in the first frame. BUT! Good video! I think it really shows the flaws of Brezhnev's premiership, his sheer vanity and treatment of people and the USSR as a whole as a muscle which he flexed to show off power and wealth, power and wealth he hoarded worse than the capitalists he and the ideology he claimed to stand so often depicted. Even more important than that however, I think it shows deserved respect to Kamarov, and shows how Gagarin tried his best to be a true friend to the doomed cosmonaut.
Great content! Learned a lot
'a murder of bureaucrats...' Well said.
There is an old saying " Hast makes waste . " Technical problems that had to be corrected were not corrected . Decisions in higher positions of powet had no Technical Knowledge. Had they corrected these problems this would not have happened. There was not
even one unmanned flight to test this new spacecraft. Komarov was very Brave to do what he did. Thank You for this Excellent Video !
very good video. leaving a comment so that youtube can recommend this to other ppl.
This is really good
What a masterpiece. Thank you
I wasn't aware of this event, as I'm not very familiar with the Soviet space program. The story legitimately deserves to be described with these two over-used words: epic tragedy.
Bravery, honor, camaraderie, and loyalty, in the face of government deception, ignorance, and betrayal permiate the story. It would, as others on here have already suggested, make for an excellent movie, or Netflix series. RIP Yuri Gagarin and Vladimir Komarov
As someone who can read Cyrillic characters: the misuse of them is so confounding and really messes my brain up. I wish the English speaking internet would knock it off. 😂
Mhmmm magic runes *throws random letters are the screen*
This video is like the vast majority I see on any subject: Very informative, but with incredibly inept presentation. The narrator seems to have a very shaky grasp of the language, although he seems to have a native accent.
@@ronaldgarrison8478 if it's so easy you become a successful content creator then
I just wrote almost the same thing.
@@CharlesFreck Talk some sense. You can be a success and still be inept in one or more areas. And I insist on the right to say so.
Komarov, what an absolute gigachad of a person. Absolutely selfless. Rest in peace.
Gigachad is the g- a-y e,st thing ever
Wow this channel is rare
This video is criminally underrated.
Underrated channel. Comment for algorithm.
9:56 Komorav was NOT the first man to fly into space twice, that honor goes to Gus Grissom who flew in both 61 and 65 on Mercury 7 and Gemini III
Wow I didn't check the date, I really look like I have a stick up my ***
Even if you want to say who flew into orbit twice, disregarding Grissom's suborbital first flight, it would have been Gordon Cooper on MA-9 and Gemini 5.
Thanks for the Video!
Komarov wasn't the first person to go to space twice, that was Grissom, although his first flight was suborbital. He had died earlier the same year in Apollo 1.
You deserve way more subs
brilliant video a real eye opener makes you wonder about Gagarin's flight accident maybe it was time to silence him as well
What an honorable man.
underrated channel
Russian history be like *produces the most insanely capable human being I’ve ever heard of… Kills them for no reason*
russian present as well
For real. Gagarin and Komarov are probably among the best test pilots the world has ever seen, and they killed one just so they could hit a launch date based on a history book, and silenced the other about it.
You're a good writer.
Very nice
I remember this. I felt real sorry for Kamarov. He was a nice guy. We saw him on TV. You know clips. Really sad. RIP Kamarov.
As an American,i have no problem giving respect to both men. Brave and loyal to the end. Great story.
A very interesting video. Comment for algorithm, here we go
I knew no greater friendship then that if a man willing to lay down his life to save a man he calls brother.
A minor correction: I don't know if you meant Komarov was the first Cosmonaut to fly twice into space because several US astronauts had two flights before 1967. Besides Grissom, Cooper & Schirra, who flew once each in Mercury & Gemini, Conrad, Lovell and Stafford each flew twice in Gemini, which ended in December 1966. Stafford, because he was a replacement on Gemini 9 for Elliot See, who was killed in a plane crash, flew twice within seven months, December 1965 and June 1966. On the political end, one wonders if Brezhnev's less than enthusiastic attitude towards the Soviet space program was a result of it being seen as Khrushchev's "baby", and with Khrushchev being eliminated, the program suffered from lower prestige and a reduced priority in the Soviet budget.
I never bought the story about Gagarin's death. I'm not sure if confronted Brezhnev about soyuz 1 directly or indirectly but it was no secret that he blamed him.
"there are only good people and good people on both sides, but there are also good leader and bad leader on both sides.All the difference between good and bad can only be seen i hindsight, not in foresight. i just wish that one day those good people come forward in peace when those bad leader come to face war."
emperor Tsiya Milvarta Shianvle
How tragic. The lives of brave men and women are sacrificed again and again by those who wouldn't have the courage to take their places.
Keep up the good work 🤠
The Council for the Problems of Mastering the Moon would be a sick band name
Vladimir Komarov on the Soyuz 1, and Gus Grissom, Edward White and Roger Schafee on the Apollo 1. 1967 was a terrible year for spaceflight.
Komarov crashed in the Soviet Union at the speed of 320 km/h (200 mph).
Prior to judgement it's important to remember that 3 of our best astronauts were burned alive in Apollo 1.
Faux Cyrillic can be weird, I'm a native English speaker who took 4 years of Russian in high school a couple years back, and it took me 20 seconds and a lot more thinking about it than it should have to realize that said Soyuz and Sfchuz, my brain was able to immediately recognize that the second to last letter was meant to be read as U and not a ts.
May the algorithm find your channel.
two great heroes and two terrible deaths. Such a terrible loss.
what an amazing video
2:21 History repeats itself, where this time it’s all us.
Will UA-cam producers PLEASE attenuate distracting background sound in their videos?? PLEASE!
Your pronunciation of russian names was great! It really shows the attention to detail, when it comes to research.
Joseph Walker was the first man in space. He flew thw X-15 rocket plane to more than a hundred kilometers above sea level before Gagarin went up.
Wasn't that in 1963? X-15 flight 90?
@lagboi4539 I forget the specific serial ID for the prototype X-15.. But I do remember the mission when it was reported in the news. I also remember when Walker received a lapel pin commemorating him as the first US astronaut because he'd been to space. I think this was before Gegarinn. It was so long ago; but it made a big impression in my memory. Because it made me even more proud of America and our Heros.
Pretty out of topic here, but can i know the name of the soundtrack featured throughout the intro?
Did you ever discover this?
@@silentechoes314 Nope lol, i've tried multiple methods but yet to find the correct song
i also tried the song linked in the desc but it seems to be a different song
@@zawchs same here... Bummer. It has such a great feel to it
A bed for a sobering monologue is the name of the song american comrade.
@@hellomoto2084 do you know the soundtrack that was used from about 14:30 to 16:20? The one before the outro of the video
SФЧUZ 0:02 doesn't mean anything it's gibberish....In Russian it's : СОЮЗ correct spelling.
Souz is translated as united or union...as Sovetskiy Souz/ Soviet Union
ah… sftchuz… my favorite space program
Well, those are not quite Cyrillic characters used wrong, but rather a stylistic choice in using Latin characters modified to look like Cyrillic. I mean, the author doesn't pretend that those are Cyrillic, he's just taking liberties with the Latin ones, like an artistic license. Think the opening sequence from Red Heat with Arnold Schwarzenegger.
everything about soviet space program stuff is fascinating
There wasn't much of a gap between this tragedy and the Apollo 1 tragedy
Who did the art for the thumbnail? It looks great!
Fascinating
What does "SFCHTSZ" mean?
My brain had a mini stroke trying to read the Cyrillic in the beginning of the video
"Thanks to extensive research-"
"Oh yeah? What about elaborating on that research?"
"Trust me, its extensive."
Why are Komarov's decorations blurred out
Great report, although the narrator calling Soyuz an aircraft was annoying.
The same year as Apollo 1, RIP to those we lost in both tragedies
09:54 - “…and became the first man to venture into the unknown on two occasions.”
Actually, Gus Grissom was the first to go into space twice: Mercury-Redstone 4 (1961) and Gemini III (1965). Apollo 1 was to have made him the first to go three times.
Komarov was the first to go into orbit twice.
Actually the first to go into orbit twice was Gordon Cooper on Mercury-Atlas 9 in 1963 and Gemini 5 in 1965.
The world lost a tallented engineer, pilot, and person.
The cyrillic letters speeling "sojus" (well actually spelling "sftzcz") are copletly wrong and it kinda looks ridiculous
So underrated!
Soyuz was a GREAT SUCCESS! Apollo 1 was a failure but the Apollo program was a SUCCESS!!
Brave hearts Brave USSR pilots and engineers
It’s impressive that the Soviets accomplished so much in the midst of such a difficult system.
Idk why but I just love this SФЧYZ opener :)
The famous Sfchuz rocket.
Commenting as this channel should be pushed by the algorithm
Why has the first credits name been omitted? “Produced and Directed by ________” ???
Amazing
Medallions with the likenesses of Gagarin and Komarov were left on the surface of the Moon by the Apollo 11 Astronauts - they made it in Spirit.
The BBC did an excellent short radio play about this on the 50th anniversary of the tragedy.
I hope this isn't a precursor to the crewed mission of the Starliner capsule.
Underated