Is the story of the Americans true to send black children to the space instead of dogs?

On the Internet you can find publications on a provocative initiative allegedly proposed in the late 1950s in the United States. We checked how much they are true.

In 1957, a dog like Sent into space on the "satellite-2". Scientists and flight organizers understood that the mongrel would not return to the land alive. This decision met condemnation and indignation around the world. How reports The Fakrum site, allegedly after the flight, “a letter from a group of women from the state of Mississippi came to the UN. They demanded to condemn the inhuman attitude towards dogs in the USSR and put forward a proposal: if for the development of science it is necessary to send living beings into space, in their city there are as many are not gritted for this. ” There is a similar statement in article In the historical magazine "Amateur". This story is also told by several million-plots in VKontakte, for example "5 interesting facts", History Porn, "Book of Records", "5 short facts", "Watch what I found out" And "Do you know?". The unusual initiative of the Americans is devoted to publications in other social networks, for example Facebook, Telegram, Livejournal And "Yandex.Zen".

Messages about the launch of the "satellite-2" with a like on board really caused protests outside the USSR. So, in the UK, zoo defenders Offered To spend a minute of silence every day, while the satellite with the dog is in orbit. At the UN headquarters in New York passed The demonstration in which ordinary Americans took part with their pets. In the French press even appeared Photos from this march - along with the dogs, a poster was depicted with the inscription "Send Khrushchev!"

A source that was first reported about the existence of a letter from the women of Mississippi - book The Lithuanian journalist Albertas Laurinchukas "Third Party of the dollar." At the turn of the 1950s and 1960s Laurinchukas worked In the United States, a correspondent of the newspaper "Rural Life", so theoretically could know about such a letter. At the same time, in other sources, in particular in the materials of the UN or specialized literature on this topic, the story of the sentence received from the mission, if they tell, then as a historical joke.

Messages about sending such a letter to the UN would hardly have caused a serious surprise among the American public of that time - the confrontation between supporters of segregation and blacks, in the United States, has worsened. gained strength Civil rights movement, one of the centers of which became Mississippi. At the same time, find notes about an unusual letter in reputable American newspapers of the late 1950s failed. Separately, we note that the book of Laurinchukas began to be published already in the mid-1960s, a few years after the flight of likes, it is surprising that the correspondent of the Soviet newspaper worked in the United States did not pay attention to such a provocative letter in a timely manner.

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