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Polo, Arvid

 

Date of event: 12/22/99. 

Type of event: interview with Arvid Polo.

Length: 00:48:01:07.

 

 

 

synthesis: Yuri Gagarin – Tereshkova – Titov – lunar space mission – cosmonaut - Communist Partymissiles.  

synthesis: landing of Yuri Gagarin – receivement of Gagarin – expeditions of Tereshkova and Titov – transfer of  space capsule to Moscow for partyingobjects that would testy soviet's arrival on the moon. - family originsstudieswork as an electrician Aviation Institutesoviet scientist's mission in Germany after Soviet occupation -  research and experiments on secret missile sites of Nazi Germanykatusha Missilesenrollment at the Communist PartyExpulsion from the CPUS, officially as an enemy of the people, in reality because he is Jewish - recollections of  Koriolov, mythical father of the Soviet space program reflections: life, comos, deathspace exploration today. Photosobjects that would testify soviet's arrival on the moon: tapes and capsules. 

subject biography: The parents, jews from Letonia, arrive in Moscow in 1910 and search for a job. - Once finished with school, Arvid works first as an electrician, and then as a construction engineer. Soon after, he enters the aviation institute and works in the  Otto factory and at the same time studies take-off systems, airplanes in stainless steel, and elaborates an intricate system for missiles. His wife and brother also work for the aviation institue. In 1942 he enters the Communist Party and in 1950 he is expelled for a small mistake (a diffective gasket) during the making of a space ship: he is sent to trial as an enemy of the people. In 1945, after the Soviet occupation of Nazi Germany, he is sent along with the occupying troops to discover the scientific secrets of the Nazis. It was a race or scientific supremacy between the USSR and the USA, who did the same thing in their part of the occupied Germany. Arvid spends seven months in Germany in the  Walter factory, one of the biggest secret projection sites of Nazi Germany. Here Polo works together with his mates on a project for liquid combustion propulsion. In 1958 he is one of the protagonists for the space exploration of Yuri Gagarin.

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