Alright, internet, it’s time to stop pretending that picture of Vladimir Komarov’s body is “rare” or adds anything but shock value to your Pinterest collection or YouTube video of historical photos. We get it. He died during reentry and his body is a shriveled mess. That picture is about as “rare” as that image of Yuri Gagarin with his wife and one of his daughters, and it’s goddamn disrespectful to share images of someone’s dead body like that, not to mention distasteful to share it without at least a meager warning.
I feel like if you’re going to post sensitive content, too, you need to make it a post that’s mostly sensitive content so that if people don’t want to see that, they can walk the other fucking way if they want. I’m not one to police what people post, and I get why people sometimes just need people to use their own judgement so they don’t get upset or whatever, but if your “historical pictures” post goes straight from “here’s a kid smiling because he finally got a new pair of shoes during wwii” to “here’s a dead disfigured body,” I really don’t know what to say. What am I supposed to do, ignore everything about history ever just to avoid one (1) really distasteful picture?
Yeah I’d personally rather see national heros alive than seeing their mangled corpses. It’s like showing the pictures of what’s left of the bodies from the Challenger. It’s distasteful and tbh rude.
Show them as they were: alive and doing what they loved to do
A beautiful response.
May Vladimir Mikhailovich Komarov forever fly among the stars, just as he always loved.
“While his heart beats in his chest, a cosmonaut will always continue to challenge the universe. Vladimir Komarov was one of the first on this treacherous path.”
Polkovnik Vladimir Mikhaylovich Komarov (16 March 1927 – 24 April 1967). Fifty years after his death, some photos of how one of the bravest space pioneers should be remembered.
