another criticism of voinovich's lyrics came from cosmonaut pavel popovich, who requested that the lyric 'let's have a smoke before the start' be altered to 'let's sing before the start', on account of the fact that cosmonauts were forbidden to smoke. voinovich responded to the criticism by saying that, as long as he did not tell popovich how to fly a spacecraft, popovich had no right to tell him how to write song lyrics. the lyric ultimately remained unchanged.