11 June 2011

Does India Need a Yuri Gagarin Monument?

Nothing against Yuri Gagarin here, but check out this:

According to Russian cosmonaut Viktor Savinykh, the city of Mumbai, India should have a monument erected in the name of the late Yuri Gagarin in order to “further boost the Indo-Soviet relationship.”
Was it the reporter or the Russian cosmonaut, but somebody needs a heads-up there: that empire is dead. Much deader than Yuri Gagarin, so live with it, folks.

Yeah, and that monument: it couldn't hurt. Go for it.

9 comments:

no good boyo said...

You know my views on the Gagarin cult, Snoop. Ivan is trying to infect the industrious Hindus with vainglory, so that instead of concentrating on building air-conditioners and not drowning in shit they waste their resources on firing Untouchables at Venus. Resist!

SnoopyTheGoon said...

But look at it another way, NGB: when other people eventually get to Venus, they will be able to get a good chicken masala and curry on the cheap.

Yitzchak Goodman said...

A Yuri Gagarin monument? Is that something you can get cheap at a pawn shop?

SnoopyTheGoon said...

I guess there are some pawned, yes.

David All said...

Seriously, why not a Yuri Gagarin and Neil Armstrong monument?

SnoopyTheGoon said...

It may be taken in a wrong way in some circles.

Dick Stanley said...

Well, Yuri was the first, and, for my money, the Hindi are going to be the first to colonize the moon. Long before we do, for sure.

SnoopyTheGoon said...

Well, good luck to them, I say. If NASA is out of the game, someone should take it up.

SnoopyTheGoon said...

Well, good luck to them, I say. If NASA is out of the game, someone should take it up.