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In 1967, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the October revolution, young people across the USSR buried time capsules with letters to future Soviet people, to be unearhed in 2017.

Excerpts from my favourite one:

We, the communist youth of the 60s, can't imagine life without creative struggle and hard work to build communism - which for you is a living reality. You are the happy generation: clear skies above you, wars only exist in history books. You didn't have to chant "Shame on Israeli agressors!", you didn't have to protest the criminal war in Vietnam, you didn't have to read about attacks on the Cuban revolution in your newspapers. All those events, contemporary for us, must seem so distant to you. Your children won't play with rusty shells and casings they find.

Capsule from Pervomaysk, Donbass - here's Pervomaysk ar

I'd like to dedicate this first space flight to the future communist society our Soviet people are already building, which, I'm certain, all the people on Earth will join.

Only a few minutes are left before the start now. I say goodbye to you, dear friends, as people always say when leaving for a long journey. I would so very much like to hug every one of you, whether I know you or not, whether you're near or far!

See you soon!

Yuri's speech before the first space flight (https://web.archive.org/web/20210401072208/https://www.roscosmos.ru/28336/)

Having flown around Earth in the spaceship, I've seen the beauty of our planet. People, let's preserve and develop this beauty, not destroy it!

A note Yuri took after the flight (on the picture).

I know you all love daydreaming about space travel and even envy us cosmonauts a little, boys especially. But did you know we envy you too? Our space flights are just the beginning. Planets, whole new worlds await you! It is you, young Le

By Fernando Navarro Robuschi:

Among the many breath-taking achievements of the USSR (thanks to socialist policies) I think the most important (by virtue of being directly related to life), is the achievement of "Food Security" in all the republics.

The concept of "Food security" has more than one definition, but essentially means:

"When all people, at all times, have physical and economic access to affordable, nutritious food in sufficient quantity"

"Sufficient" as in "enough to grow up/develop in a healthy way"

This was the case in the USSR. Thanks, among other things (such as centrally managing the country's resources and the use of administrative prices), to the collectivization of the countryside.

After the extremely bad harvest of 1932-1933 (which caused a famine in the Ukrainian SSR and was in turn caused not only by bad weather but also by the Kulaks killing/eating their own cattle and burning their crops in protest to the collectivization drive) famine nev