IGOR BORISLAW SUCHOWSKI'S CALL FOR PARTICIPATION


ON THE 4TH OF OCTOBER 1957 THE FIRST SPACE SATELLITE, SPUTNIK 1, WAS LAUNCHED BY THE SOVIET SPACE AUTHORITIES. ONE MONTH LATER, ON THE 3 RD OF NOVEMBER, A SECOND ONE FOLLOWED: SPUTNIK 2. THIS SPACE CAPSULE CAUSED EVEN A BIGGER SENSATION, AS IT WAS MANNED WITH A PASSENGER, A SHE DOG CALLED LAIKA, THE FIRST EARTHLY LIVING BEING IN SPACE. A Picture of LAIKAA BEAUTIFUL, BRAVE AND COURAGEOUS ANIMAL, THAT SHOULD ADD HONOUR AND GLORY TO THE SOVIET UNION AS, OF COURSE, IT WAS PLANNED, THAT SHE SHOULD RETURN SAFELY TO EARTH AFTER A SEVEN DAY SPACE FLIGHT. AND EVERYTHING WAS PERFECTLY PREPARED FOR HER RETURN - WHICH OF COURSE MENT NO TECHNICAL PROBLEM TO OUR SOVIET SPACE TECHNICIANS AND ENGINEERS. HERE YOU CAN SEE THE SPECIALLY FOR HER DESIGNED MEDAL
TO LAIKA, The Medal HEROINE OF THE COSMOS AND ALSO A SPECIAL HYMN WAS COMPOSED. HER RETURN WAS SUPPOSED TO BE A MOVING MOMENT FOR THE WHOLE SOVIET NATION. SO MUCH MORE TRAGIC AFTER ALL THESE HIGH HOPES, TO OBSERVE - ON THE FIFTH DAY OF THE OPERATION - ON THE SCREEN OF THE MONITORING SYSTEM AN UNKNOWN FLYING OBJECT, APPROACHING SLOWLY BUT DETERMINED OUR SPACE CAPSULE, SENDING OUT ITS RADAR SHIELD SHADOW AND DISAPPEARING AFTER A SHORT WHILE TOGETHER WITH OUR PRECIOUS SPUTNIK 2. FOR A SHORT WHILE WE COULD STILL HEAR A FAINT RADIO NOISE, THEN NOTHING BUT SILENCE.

EVEN THOUGH THE FIRST AMERICAN SATELLITE, EXPLORER 1, WAS LAUNCHED OFFICIALLY NOT BEFORE THE 2ND FEBRUARY 1958, WE VERY MUCH SUSPECTED, THAT LAIKA HAD BEEN KIDNAPPED - KIDNAPPED BY THE AMERICANS, AS THEY MUST HAVE BEEN EXTREMLY EAGER TO GET ALL THE SCIENTIFIC INFORMATIONS OUT OF THE SPUTNIK 2 MISSION AND SIMULTANIOUSLY TOOK THE OPPORTUNITY IN THESE TIMES OF THE COLD WAR, TO DISCREDIT OUR HIGH REPUTATION AS EXCELLENT ENGINEERS AND, EVEN WORSE, AS AN ANIMAL LOVING NATION. AND THEY HIGHLY SUCCEEDED: UP TO THE PRESENT DAY EVERYBODY ON THE WHOLE EARTH IS CONVINCED, THAT LAIKA DIED AFTER 5 DAYS BECAUSE OF A LACK OF OXYGENE IN THE CABIN. AS WE, THE SOVIET PEOPLE, ARE A PEACE-LOVING NATION, WE DID NOT WANT TO FORCE POLITICAL CONFRONTATIONS THAT MIGHT END UP IN AN OUTBREAK OF WAR, AND THEREFORE OUR GOVERNMENT WISELY DECIDED, TO KEEP THE INCIDENT SECRET FOR THE SAKE OF WORLDWIDE PEACE.

BUT NOW THE INCREDIBLE OCCURED: THIS YEAR, ON THE 24TH OF AUGUST, A FARMER DISCOVERED OUR LOST SPUTNIK 2 IN A FOREST NEAR TJURA TAM. AFTER SCRUPULOUS EXAMINATION OF THE CAPSULE IT WAS CLEAR, THAT THE SPACE SHIP COULD HAVE LANDED ONLY A FEW DAYS BEFORE IT HAD BEEN FOUND AND THAT IT WAS SURPRISINGLY ENOUGH IN QUITE A GOOD CONDITION. THE ENTRANCE CHANNEL STOOD OPEN AND IT WAS CLEARLY TO BE SEEN, THAT LAIKA MUST HAVE BEEN STILL ON BOARD UNTIL THE LANDING AND ALIVE AND WELL. AND THAT SHE HAD NOT BEEN ALONE IN THE CAPSULE . WHOEVER HAS BEEN HER COMPANION DURING THIS MANY YEARS WE COULD NOT FIND OUT TILL TODAY - BUT WE DO KNOW THAT IT IS DEFINETLY ALSO A HAIRY CREATURE.

NOW THAT YOU HAVE HEARD THIS STORY, YOU WILL UNDERSTAND WHY THE SOVIET SPACE AUTHORITIES TOOK THIS OPPORTUNITY, TO ASK VIA THIS WORLD-WIDE CU-SEE ME SPACE EVENT FOR HELP: WHO HAS SEEN LAIKA? AND WHO HAS SEEN HER COMPANION? OR BOTH TOGETHER? ANIMAL LOVERS ALL OVER THE WORLD AND FRIENDS OF THE SOVIET SPACE RESEARCH HELP TO FIND LAIKA AND THE UNKNOWN CREATURE, TO BRING THIS OLD AND TRAGIC STORY TO A HAPPY ENDING AND THE WORLD PEACE AND RECONCILIATION.

THANK YOU.
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