It's no great secret that the USSR was never terribly open about its classified space

and military programs, and so it should surprise no one that they did in a number of well-documented

cases alter the history books.

But some say their erased history included something we can't confirm.

The actual deaths of cosmonauts on space missions that are denied to have ever happened.

The missing cosmonauts are today on Skeptoid.

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