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i am russian and i bothered to press the play button. what i heard was an obvious, poorly composed fake.

the calm and proud voice repeats about Komarov making the way to Comminism for the whole mankind [edit: apparently Komarov himself in official radio appeal]. this is intersected with some voices that could not be understood.

the way to communism mantra is obviously copy-pasted several times, some times partially, just to make some russian soudns, like this: "Komarov prokladyvaet put k Kommunizmu!" - "phshphs-bla!-bla!" - "-mmunizmu!" - pshshsh!blabla! - "prokladyvaet put k Kommunizmu!"

imagine how Russians watch movies where Hollywood tries to show something Russian, labels or written names. mostly it is just a meaningless set of letters. this is also looks like a bullshit that some CIA guys presented to their local Brezhnevs to justify their work

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It's probably not fake, it sounds like pretty standard (in terms of stiltedness and bombast) Soviet verbiage, probably intended for quoting or retransmission later. There's a lengthy analysis of the flight here

http://www.svengrahn.pp.se/histind/Soyuz1Land/Soyanaly.htm

by someone who doesn't seem like a tinfoil hat wearer. He seems to think intercepts of some of his other communication are likely but reports are 'embellished'.

So you heard the part I couldn't make out.

I think I made out the entire thing, but I was fuzzy on the last word.

I hear: "K narodom nashe rodie, prakldavuyu chilvetchistvu put k Kommunizmu, bifshi cosmonaft umru?"

The first part translates roughly to: to the people of our homeland, I am laying the way for civilization to communism.

The last part to, this former cosmonaut is dead. But I could totally be mishearing that last bit (as the grammar doesn't really work if that is what he's saying).

well, i listened to it for the fourth time and hear the voice said:

'привет народам нашей родины, прокладывающей человечеству путь к коммунизму. летчик-космонавт Комаров'

'privet narodam nashey rodiny, prakladyvayushey chelavechestvu put k kamunizmu. lyotchik-kasmonavt Komarov'

which means 'greetings to the peoples of our motherland that makes the way to communism for the mankind. pilot-cosmonaut Komarov'

lyotchik-kosmonaut is russian cosmonauts' title.

well, first i thought it's some official radio speaker, now i admit that it's Komarov himself before or during the flight. nothing like crying.

and, this appeal is copy-pasted two times and one time pasted partially, '-munizmu', which indicates the fake.

the radio talk in between is illegible for me

Never mind you are totally right. Definitely nothing about crying or killed. He says his name very quickly which was throwing me off.

I don't know if its fake, to me it almost sounds like the the people on the radio are repeating what he is saying or asking him to repeat something, but one can be fairly confident that the people writing the article misunderstood what was being said.

> He says his name very quickly which was throwing me off.

surely i know that it's impossible to 'parse' words out of the speech without talking to language speakers all the time. when English speak i understand a half! actually I (as many Russians) appreciate that you know Russian and tried to understand what he was saying. i guess it's seldom for a native English-speaker to learn a language out of the list of Spanish and French :) Russian is the hardest of the wide spread Indo-European languages, i think, due to all it's flexes and stems, which you know ('umru'='i will die', etc), so you're cool :)

> the people writing the article misunderstood what was being said.

AND there might be something in that illegible part of the compilation, deciphered with the special techniques. for the show it was complied with the clear part.

actually i dont know what would i cry in this situation, definitely wouldnt greet the nation etc :)

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