This is actually not a propaganda film, it is a documentary chronicling a scientist from the sputnik program. This is merely the intro to it. I will translate as best as I can.

"Mankind has had a hard road to knowledge on our world, always seeking to go where he hasn't been, to know what he didn't know. In spite of great danger he crossed great seas, stormed through forests, ascended above the clouds, descended to the depths of the ocean. In the face of innumerable hardships, he peered into the secrets of the living cell, the atom, he streams to answer all the questions of the world, to know himself better.

But never has mankind tried to tear himself from his own planet, and now has come the time when he takes the step out of his home. This is understandable. Man has grown.

The planet is our cradle, but we cannot spend all our time in the cradle. We are dedicating our film to the men of space, but we start with this great but humble scientist."

Everything from the USSR is propaganda. And Hollywood.

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Sputnik 1 was launched 50 years ago today
and thanks Farhad, for the translation

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USSR? They're the top layer of the ash heap the islamonazis will be landing on.

^ ...what?

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