Le dernier jour de Youri Gagarine, le premier homme dans l'espace

April 1968: more than a million Soviets gathered in Moscow to pay their last respects to Yuri Gagarin, the first man to navigate into space. Gagarin, the most accomplished incarnation of this "new man" of whom Lenin dreamed, stupidly died in a plane accident due to an accumulation of culpable negligence.