I didn’t comment the letter, I commented your idea that he lived through the Terror and thus the letter. No, that wasn’t the case. And once again: the terror the society experienced that was vivid to Gagarin was from…
The Terror has ended by October 1938, when Gagarin was 4 years old. I wouldn’t call that “living through”. I’m not saying there weren’t political prisoners or executions later. There were, but the scale is incomparable.…
I didn’t comment the letter, I commented your idea that he lived through the Terror and thus the letter. No, that wasn’t the case. And once again: the terror the society experienced that was vivid to Gagarin was from…
The Terror has ended by October 1938, when Gagarin was 4 years old. I wouldn’t call that “living through”. I’m not saying there weren’t political prisoners or executions later. There were, but the scale is incomparable.…