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In this immersive historical bedtime story, step inside the quiet, harrowing descent of a forgotten Soviet cosmonaut in the 1960s space race. From silent railway platforms and photo ops under propaganda floodlights to the final, flickering hours alone in orbit, this is the fate they never televised.

It’s not a heroic journey. It’s not a conspiracy theory. It’s what happens when ambition outruns empathy—and when silence becomes policy.

So lie back. Close your eyes. And drift weightless through one of the darkest, most quietly horrifying stories the Cold War never wanted told.

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