Your source is questionable and its the io9 editor&#x27;s bias showing here. The reality is that we don&#x27;t know for certain what happened, but considering we have the communication in Berlin and this book, it seems to me my side is closer to the truth than the questionable Soviet apologia io9 is pushing.<p>The video phone is irelevant and probably a misunderstanding via a translator. Clearly the NSA and berlin listeners would have no idea what was seen&#x2F;heard outside of the spectrum they were able to tap.<p>Not too long ago people like you were denying the Nedelin catastrophe. I think there&#x27;s a lot of coverups the Soviets pulled that are only coming to light in the past couple decades. Russia has a problem with openness and honesty with its space program. They pretty much ran it as a black ops, not telling other countries their launch schedules or programs. This was done as to make coverups easier. That guy died for nothing. The Soviets forced him on that thing and he knew he was a dead man.