I have a DvD documentary on Gagarin's life. It was pretty tragic. According to this documentary (I will have to dig it out to get the name) Yuri was the first international celebrity that was not a political figure. Unfortunately Yuri was unprepared and so was everyone else at the notoriety and he did not handle it well.
I *think* the documentary was entitled Red Star Rising but I may have that confused with another documentary on Soviet space programs.
But anyway, it seems that he was not a happy man after his flight.
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