he was awarded the highest awards of foreign countries in britain gagarin officially arrived at the invitationn in manchester, but saw the country's authorities. what effect did the visit have? they invited him to london, at a meeting with the prime minister and the queen for the sake of gagarin, elizabeth ii even violated the rules of etiquette and asked him for a joint photo, and also seeing how the astronaut puts himself a salad with a spoon. and then she takes out a lemon slice from tea and eats it with pleasure, she said. let's eat everything in gagarin's style, and i repeated everything after him very warmly. gagarin received and fidel castro the leader who had just won the cuban revolution decided that it was gagarin who would become the first owner of the order of the plachiron, which was originally intended for him castro himself gave the astronaut his beret as a keepsake, and gagarin gave him his pilot's cap. later, gagarin headed the soviet-cuban friendship society and himself became a good friend of fidel. and, of course, women always looked at him with liberation. among his fans w