На Западе выходит книга о тайнах космических успехов СССР: крики гибнущего космонавта и танцы Хрущева на столе/
Полный текст статьи вот здесь написан
http://newsru.com/world/21mar2011/starman.html
Я так понимаю, эти авторы хотят устроить типа сенсацию и испортить людям праздник.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2011/03/23/134597833/cosmonaut-crashed-into-earth-crying-in-rage
American historian Asif Siddiqi commented:
"Wow, I don't even know where to start with this article (or rather the book it's based on). It's largely a pile of junk that's been debunked by many historians both in Russia and the West. (Just ask someone who knows!)
1. Leonid Brezhnev didn't "decide to stage a spectacular midspace rendezvous." The plan for this mission dated back to 1965 and was formulated by engineers. It had nothing to do with Brezhnev
2. There was never a plan to have Komarov crawl from one ship to another. That's just not true.
3. Yaroslav Golovanov (the Pravda correspondent supposedly credited for some of this information) never wrote that "Gagarin demanded to be put into a spacesuit" so that he could fly the mission. I think Golovanov (who died in 2003) would be spinning in his grave if he knew that he was quoted as such.
4. Komarov never told ground control that "he knew he was about to die." In fact, while he was in orbit, there was a decent chance that he would get back home alive. And by the way, there was no "video phone" in 1967. And also, Kosygin had nothing to do with this space mission and never spoke to Komarov.
I could go on.... That NPR would publish this crap is just amazing...."
Собственно, здесь http://www.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=10100&start=71 уже прошлись и по книге, и по "Компьюленте", которая радостно перепела всю эту печальную историю.