HistoryExtra podcast · 2026-08-10 · 45 min · 8,073 words

Yuri Gagarin: life of the week

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Uyghurin's journey from a Nazi occupied Soviet village into outer space would make him one of the most famous people on Earth. In this episode of the History Extra podcast, historian Arsif Sidiki speaks to Danny Bird about the life behind the legend. revealing how Gagarin came to embody the USSR's post war ambitions, and why his winning smile still evokes the optimism of humanity's first steps Into the cosmos. Asiv, when we think about Yuri Gagarin today, he almost feels mythic, but who was he really before the fame? Can you tell me about his childhood growing up in Soviet Russia during the Second World War?

Yes, absolutely. He had a childhood typical of that generation who grew up in the early and mid thirties, which is that they were children during World War Two and World War Two for Soviet citizens in general was a you know a massive trauma because of the Nazi the German invasion And Diricharin was about ten years old when he experienced that invasion, and he had three siblings, two brothers and a sister, and his parents. So the six of them were quite close, but they also, as I mentioned, directly experienced a Nazi invasion, which began in nineteen forty one. And it affected their family. They had to move out of their house. They lived in a dugout for quite a bit of the war because the soldiers basically kicked them out of their house. And there was also an incident with his brother in which a German soldier tried to be essentially

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