Alternate Destinies (Communist World)

This page explores the fates and destinies of real-life people who we know in our world, and how their lives were different in the timeline shaped by Communist World. The timeline assumes some real-life persons never existed, and that some existed who never would have. The following list is alphabetical.

Yuri Gagarin
(1934 - 2010) Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin (Russian: Ю́рий Алексе́евич Гага́рин) was a Soviet pilot and cosmonaut. He was the first human to journey into outer space, when his Vostok spacecraft completed an orbit of the Earth on 12 April 1961. Gagarin became an international celebrity, and was awarded many medals and titles, including Hero of the Soviet Union, the nation's highest honor. Vostok 1 marked his first spaceflight, and he served as backup crew to the Soyuz 1 mission (which ended in a fatal crash). He later became the first Soviet citizen  to walk on the Moon and the third person in 1968. Gagarin later became deputy training director of the Cosmonaut Training Centre outside Moscow, which was later named after him. In 1985 Gagarin, at age 50, Gagarin became the oldest person to go into space.