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On board the ISS four years later, he witnessed rocket fire in eastern Ukraine as Russian-backed separatists launched an insurgency there. This followed Russian troops seizing Crimea from Ukraine, and Virts says he was shocked by a cosmonaut's response.

"The commander of my Soyuz, Anton Shkaplerov, is from Sevastopol in Crimea. His wife is Ukrainian. And he was like, 'Krym nash, Krym nash,' which means 'Crimea is ours.' He was just so proud that they had taken back Crimea," Virts said.

But later, Virts was more concerned by three other cosmonauts he had flown with -- Aleksander Samokutyaev, Maksim Surayev, and Yelena Surova -- who all went on to serve as lawmakers in President Vladimir Putin's United Russia party.

There is also controversy surrounding a cosmonaut on the current ISS crew. Alexey Zubritsky was born in Ukraine in 1992 and last month RFE/RL's Current Time reported that he was wanted in the land of his birth for treason.

In 2014, Zubritsky was a Ukrainian Air Force pilot stationed in Crimea. When Russian troops arrived, he disobeyed orders to report to a Ukrainian base outside the peninsula, opting instead to stay there and switch sides.

These cosmonauts are actively participating in those so-called "trivial" matters, up to and including being a literal traitor. He's also a former astronaut. He came home. The matters of Earth are literally all around him.

And those literal Nazis weren't actively working for the Nazis when they got us to the moon.

Maybe just calm down there and let the man speak.