Evening star., 1961-04-12
ANNOUNCEMENT TEXT
Soviet Links Flight
To Call for Peace

LONDON, April IL (APJ.-
The tert of the Soviet goU-
ernment ana Communist
Party statement h1iltng the
first space flight and calling
on the lDorld to end the arms
race.
A great event has taken
place. For the first time in
history man has accomplished
a flight into space.
On April IL, 1861, at got
am. Moscow time Q:07 am.
EST the spaceship satellite
Vostok, carrying a man on
board, assembled into space and,
having accomplished a flight
round the globe, successfully
landed on the sacred soil of
our motherland, the Soviet
Union. The first man to pene-
trate space was a Soviet man,
a citizen of the USSR.
This is an unparalleled victory
of man over the forces of ma
ture, the immense achievement
of science and technology and
the triumph of human mind.
Foundations have been laid for
mans flight into space.
In this achievement, which
Twill pass into history, are en-
bodied the genius of the Soviet
people and the powerful force
of socialism. With a feeling
of great Joy and legitimate
pride. the Central Committee
of the CP, the Presidium of
the USSR Supreme Soviet and
the Soviet government note
that this new era in the pro-
igressive development of man
kind has been opened by our
country-the country of vic
torious socialism.
Contrast With Old Russia
In the past, backward tsarist
Russia could not even have
dreamt of achieving such ex-
ploits in the struggle for prog
ress of competing with tech
nically and economically more
advanced countries.
BY the will of the working
class, by the will of the people
and inspired by the party OF
Communists headed by Lenin,
our country has turned into a
most powerful socialist state
and reached unprecedented
heights in the development OF
science and technology.
When in October 1917 the
working class took power into
its own hands, many even
honest people doubted whether
it would be able to govern the
country and preserve at least
that level of the development
of economy science and tech
nology which had by then been
attained.
And now, before the eyes Of
the whole world, the working
class, the Soviet collective farm
peasantry and the Soviet in
telligentsia-the whole Soviet
people-demonstrate an un-
precedented victory of science
and technology. Our country
has surpassed all other states
in the world and has been the
first to blaze the trail into
space.
Soviet FirSts Recalled
The Soviet Union was the
first to launch an intercon-
tinental ballistic rocket, the
first to launch an artificial
satellite of the earth, the first
to send spaceship to the moon
created the first artificial Satel-
lite of the sun, sent a spaceship
on Venus-bound course. Soviet
satellite Spaceships with living
beings on board one after an
other sailed into outer space
and returned to the earth.
The elimination of our VIC
tories in the conquest of outer
space was the triumphal round
the-earth flight of a Soviet
man IN a Spaceship.
Honor and glory to the work.
ing class, the Soviet peasantry,
Soviet intellectuals, to the whole
Soviet people! Honor and glory
to Soviet scientists, engineers
and technicians-the creators
of the spaceship!
Honor and glory to the first
spaceman. Comrade Yuri Alex
seyevieh Gagarin, the pioneer
of the conquest of cosmos!
We, Soviet people, building
communism, had the distinc-
ton to be the first to pene-
trate outer space. We regard
these victories in the conquest
of outer space not only as the
achievement Of our people, but
as an achievement of whole
/ mankind We gladly nlace them