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The Wikipedia article on Alexei Leonov, the first person to perform a spacewalk, says that he wanted to go to art school but decided not to because the tuition was too high. I would have thought all schools would be free in the Soviet Union. Am I missing something?

by /u/ArmandoAlvarezWF in /r/AskHistorians

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