The US also didn't send the first man, woman, crew, animal, satellite, interplanetary probe, space station, etc., etc.
The Soviet space program has a long list of significant firsts and accomplishments that are nearly completely ignored and unknown to people who will proudly name the first man on the moon.
Hah, yeah you have polls in France right after the war where people say Russian contributed the most in WW2 to polls now saying the US contributed the most. At the rate this is going, people in the future will think Russia was an Axis power.
Back then it was the Soviet Union. Together with Nazi Germany it attacked Poland, so it kind of was associated with the Axis until it was attacked by the Nazis.
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[ 3.7 ms ] story [ 17.7 ms ] threadThe Soviet space program has a long list of significant firsts and accomplishments that are nearly completely ignored and unknown to people who will proudly name the first man on the moon.
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