On October 18, 1941, Germans occupied Klushino village when Yuri Gagarin was 7 years old, as they prepared to siege Moscow with a 3000km front in World War II. His family was forced to relocate to live in a new mud hut of only 3m x 3m size in a nearby area where the Nazi army could easily watch their movements. In that spring, his only sister Zoya and elder brother Valentin were abducted by the SS guard (paramilitary army led by the Nazi party) to deport them to Germany as prisoners, but luckily they escaped as the train that was used to deport prisoners commandeered to divert its course.

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