@Background Pony #3F90  
Now 60

@Polybius91  
Pony yaoi is pretty cute sometimes, too…

Pony Yuri is cute.

L o v e it!

58 years ago…

@Entrinity  
It is just a picture, it is not “starting” anything…

Is he starting a Cold War series of pics?

@The Smiling Pony  
It’s way more complicated than that actually. When Gagarin went to space in 1961, famines and breadlines were already over (the last soviet famine happened in 1947) and gulags (most of them) were dismantled during the de-stalinization era. The “Soviets choose the conquest of space over feeding their people” argument is mostly American propaganda. Living in the post-Stalin Soviet Union wasn’t nearly as bad as what McCarthyist propagandists wanted you to believe. Sure Soviets ate LOTS of potatoes, and meat was pretty rare, but starvation REALLY wasn’t a problem (starchy food being ultra caloric).  
Here’s a synthesis on the subject if you’re interested.
 

 
_{Also my first intent wasn’t to start political discussions, just thought that pic was funny. Maybe I should have cropped the upper part.}

@Background Pony #F89C  
The incentive for the state was to prove they could beat capitalism, the incentive for individuals was to get their next meal and not get sent to a gulag.

@ShimmeringGloriously  

Cue the Gagarin meme.

Damn commies!

In Soviet Russia, ponies fly into space.

Годнотень

Атмосферно нарисовано однако

Gagarin flew into space, but didn’t see any Fausticorn there

And he said “Поехали!.  
Greatly appreciated, Dimfann.

nice soviet aesthetic

Ground Control to Major Tom….

Neat.