PHJim wrote,

*In Boy Scouts in the fifties we used to sing a song...

*Yuri Gagarin's our cosmonaut,
*Vive La Joe Stalin.
*We put him up on our very first shot,
*Vive La Joe Stalin.

They put Gagarin up in 1961, so if the Boy Scouts sang this in the fifties, they were well ahead of their time.