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Alternative-Dirt9054 t1_iti66nq wrote

Lol yeah, Russia copied the the first satellite and space ship from the west and made it worse. Oh wait, the literally went to space before the entire world while their entire economy was bombed to rubble by the Germans years earlier.

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[deleted] t1_iti6ek3 wrote

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Alternative-Dirt9054 t1_iti85uy wrote

Lmao keep projecting.

SS Nazi Werner von Braun ran NASA, the Russians had the father of astronautics, Sergei Korolev

Korolev is universally seen as a genius

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seanflyon t1_itmqylb wrote

Korolev was Ukrainian, not Russian.

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Alternative-Dirt9054 t1_itoogol wrote

Lmfao, did you tell him that?

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seanflyon t1_itop7yh wrote

I never met Sergei Korolev, he died before I was born. The fact remains he was Ukrainian, born in Zhytomyr about 140 km west of Kyiv. Ukraine was part of the Soviet Union, but Ukraine was not part of Russia. Being Ukrainian when Ukraine was part of the Soviet Union does not make someone Russian.

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