Iker Jimenez Cuarto Milenio presented in the case of "a man who wanted to remove the Soviet Union History of a stroke. "Let's make it a well-deserved tribute," he announced. The mystery had investigated Gerardo Pelaez, one of his partners in the program for four-and illustrated with a portrait of Ivan Istochnikov cosmonaut in spacesuit , a photo with his colleagues at the Kremlin and a later in which he had removed, among other images.
"The question is why (he was cleared), which had made this man, why bother," said Jiménez. "He embarked on a mission that was devastating failure for the USSR and, of course, that could not disclose," said Pelaez. Istochnikov was "well known" in the USSR according to the two journalists, and disappeared in 1968 aboard the Soyuz 2. To hide the failure, was erased from history: he removed the photos, his family was deported to Siberia, and their friends and colleagues, silenced.
The case, explained in the fourth millennium, came to light in 1993 when a journalist bought at an auction at Sotheby's in New York a lot with declassified material from the USSR. "And there she discovers the man, who I think was called Mike Arena, a picture with the ghost in the flesh, this," said Jimenez, who concluded: "The truth is that this man (cosmonaut) does not appear in official photographs and I was there. " Impressive ... and false because Istochnikov Ivan is as real as Donald Duck.
However, an alternate history collection in various media, websites and emails, says that in fact aboard the Soyuz 2 were Colonel Ivan Istochnikov and a dog named Kloka, and both mysteriously disappeared while the ship was in orbit without ever having been made find out the reason for the disappearance and what happened to them.
space race in full by the Russian authorities would have wanted to silence this issue at all costs, and more after the death of Vladimir Mikhailovich Komarov at the controls of the Soyuz 1, which proceeded to eliminate any reference to their participation in this mission and rewriting the records so that the official version became that Istochnikov have died due to disease months before the mission. Family, friends and colleagues have been isolated, blackmailed and generally required to maintain secrecy.
Although Russian authorities initially seemed to get away with it, eventually there of Istochnikov have ended up coming to light incidentally during the acquisition by American journalist Michael Arena, the Russian space program material at auction as the item purchased by the writings and photographs included perriodista Giorgi Beregovoi, the crew Soyuz 3, and between the photographs was one that particularly caught his attention because she Arena run six astronauts, instead of the five that appear in the version "official" photo. Picado
interest, Arena went to investigate, and aided by weather information openness of perestroika, he managed to bring to light the true story of the flight of the Soyuz 2, as can be read on the website of the Sputnik Foundation, an organization dedicated to exposing the secrets of the Soviet space program, an organization that is a member of Michael Arena ...
But the only problem is that this second story is completely false, since Istochinikov both as photos and texts that accompany the story are nothing more than an elaborate creation of Joan Fontcuberta, who convinced the ability of computers to manipulate the image and with this "reality" traveled to Russia to document and take photos then used as "evidence" once suitably altered.
In fact, Istochnikov face in the photographs is that of Fontcuberta own, and even the meaning of the name of the cosmonaut is a clue that it is all an elaborate hoax, and that means about the same as Fontcuberta, ie hidden or covered source.
The end result of all this work was presented in Madrid in 1997 in an exhibition called "Sputnik: The Odyssey of the Soyuz 2 ', an exhibition that has gone then will travel to many parts of the world and catching more than a clueless because although the Sputnik Foundation website can be read, yes, red on red-
EVERYTHING IS FICTION - FICTION IS ALL - ALL IS FICTION
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