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. Bright futures lay ahead of them. In the name of the Inter-cosmos Program they were about to conquer space. The second they touched down, they were treated like pop stars and worshiped as heroes. And today? What do the heroes of socialism do without socialism?
Vladimír Remek
Miroslaw Hermaszewski
Sigmund Jähn
Georgi Ivanov
Bertalan Farkas
Pham Tuân
Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez
Jügderdemidiin Gürragchaa
Dumitru Prunariu
Abdul Ahad Mohmand
Leonid Brezhnev
Wojciech Jaruzelski
Todor Zhivkov