 and such an opportunity to exploit the reckless indifference to human life of the Soviets would have surely been taken. The obvious conclusion is that the Judica-Cordiglia brothers had, at best, made a mistake. Some have suggested that their recording of a dying cosmonaut was actually one of the many dogs the Soviets sent up into space. A less charitable explanation is the brothers had fabricated the communications and the whole thing was a hoax.