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>on October 24th, 1960, a terrible rocket accident occurred at Baikonur Cosmodrome
>it was immediately common knowledge in the Western press with an estimated death toll of 100, but the Soviet Union denied it ever happened
>the Soviet Union finally acknowledged the event in 1989 and claimed 54 people died
>in 2010, the Russian Space Agency claimed 126 people died, but also they were unsure of this number and it could be anywhere between 60 and 150

How do you cover up something so well that you can't even declassify it later when you *want* to?

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