There ' s a pizza gate sub over at voat . I just signed up over there , it ' s easy . Just trying to get the word out . <| sep |> he was imprisoned in 1938 for mishandling funds , using them for experiments . We discussed this further below 3 , it indeed appears to be a wrong statement that he was accused of a plot . Stalin and the space race existed at the same time huh ? What are you trying to say with this ? He was tortured , enslaved and abused during Stalins purge and died years later from the resulting damages . When he became the big guy in the soviet space program , he still lived in an authoritarian regime , his life depending on the mercy of the people in charge . He never recovered from the horrors that were done to him and he even died without getting his deserved fame since his existence was kept secret .