According to a documentary Gagarin was staged to act as the first human in space, because Владимир Серге́евич Ильюшин, a remarkable test pilot and a son of a prestigious 2. World War era Soviet aviation constructor, Серге́й Владимирович Илью́шин, lost consciousness during re-entry, but almost miraculously survived the crash. The seriously sick Владимир Серге́евич Ильюшин was not in a suitable shape for Soviet propaganda and the fact that the soviet technology failed at the very first manned flight, was not suitable either. The solution: send a new cosmonaut to space and if it succeeds, there is a sexy, healthy, good-looking cover-boy for the soviet propaganda. At some stage Gagarin found out that he has been set up and that probably was the source for his depression and alcoholism. According to Владимир Серге́евич Ильюшин, who investigated the the Gagarin's jet crash it is not sure, if it was Gagarin, who was in the crashed plane. The idea that Gagarin was actually murdered by the KGB is supported by the rumor that Gagarin threw a glass of champagne to Бре́жнев's face.