| Description | At the bottom of the cartoon, the caption of 'Evolution of Man' is written, but it has been crossed out. The cartoon depicts various different animals climbing up a hill, eventually becoming man. The final stage is an astronaut standing on the moon. Beyond the astronaut there are three gravestones with 'CCCP' written on them and a Soviet flag. In front of the tomestones lays a document entitled 'Man's plans for beyond'. Beyond the tombstones, a hunched over, naked, elderly man walks towards a [factory].
[News 1 July 1971: The Soviet Government ordered the setting up of a special commision to investigate the accident in which three cosmonauts died on the Soyuz 11 spacecraft.] (Source: British Cartoon Archive, University of Kent). |