| Russian radio translation:
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| «This is Moscow speaking, all radio transmitters in the soviet union are
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| broadcasting.
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| We have received news from the state news agency Tass about the world’s first
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| flight of man in space.»
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| I am a rocket
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| The power of the system
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| It’s bullet-proof technology
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| Oh we’re going to a new world
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| Going to a better place
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| This is just the first step
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| And everyone will follow me
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| Hold me up as an example
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| There’s no need to watch my back
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| 'Cause my friends have got it for me
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| I’m gonna go down in history
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| As the man who made a difference
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| Call me egotistical
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| Well how dare you care you call me selfish
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| I’m doing this for mankind
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| 'Cause I am a rocket
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| A child of the motherland
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| Pioneer for humanity,
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| I’m a wholesome superhero
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| For the worldwide society
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| We’re heading out to outer space
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| We’re going forth for the human race
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| 'Cause I am a prodigy
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| A part of the master plan
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| A symbol of equality
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| Blasting out into the future
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| I’m a man defying gravity
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| They’ll build me a monument
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| Name everything after me
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| Schools and hospitals
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| Armies of boys and girls
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| I’m gonna live forever
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| Immortality is mine!
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| We’re heading out to outer space
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| We’re going forth for the human race
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| We’re heading out to outer space
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| We’re going forth for the human race
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| Russian radio:
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| «The cosmonaut pilot of the space ship Sputnik Vostok
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| is the citizen of the Soviet Union of Socialist Respublics,
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| pilot Major Yuri Alexeyevich Gagarin.» |