I post on the International Skeptics forum and Apollohoax.net. Both forums routinely run hoax believers through the buzz saw when they show up.
I was hoping that you would have provided a link to show that your claim of "the soviets maintained that every capsule containing a living animal they sent through the Van Allen belts returned with a dead animal" was true, or not.
The Van Allen belts extend from 400 miles to 36,000 above the Earth's surface. Kosmos 110 with the two dogs on it had an apogee of 548 miles; well within the radiation belts. I don't know which Soviets claimed that all of their animals sent into the belts died, but they were wrong to say so.
Everyone and everything that passes through the VA belts is irradiated. The ways to reduce radiation exposure while traveling through the VA belts is time, distance and shielding. Traveling through the belts at the edge where radiation levels are lower, moving as fast as possible (25,000 mph) and use of shielding (thin aluminum and other materials in the case of Apollo) is how the astronauts kept their exposure down during their short duration missions.
https://www.wired.com/story/nasa-wants-to-set-a-new-radiation-limit-for-astronauts/
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