Farmers in Space

They were heroes of a special kind. They came from the steppes, the sons of farmers, of factory floor women. Salt-of-the-earth, strapping young men, model husbands, who believed in communism with all their hearts. They were perfect identification-figures for the economically and ideologically damages socialist community. Bright futures lay ahead of them.

In the mane of the Intercosmos Programme they were about to conquer space. And today? What do the heroes of socialism do without socialism?