The term revolution originally meant the circulation of celestial bodies around centres of gravitation.The red star quickly became the symbol of the Soviet Union, probably inspired by Alexander Bogdanov’s eponymous science-fiction utopia about a communist society on Mars. Ever since the Sputnik crisis, Planet Earth has suffered from star fever. Not even the Soviet satellite East Germany could escape the gravitational force of such ideas.

In December 1991 a whole series of revolutions resulted in the dissolution of the Soviet Union, constituting a turning point in the history of astronautics. Similarly, the fall of the Iron Curtain in 1989 led to the suppression of archived socialist propaganda, comprising hundreds of slides related to astronomy, peacekeeping in the cosmos and more. Since then 30 years have passed. While searching for traces, attention is directed on what is left of the yearning for a cosmic coalition.