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seanflyon t1_itmqylb wrote

Reply to comment by Alternative-Dirt9054 in Russia's new space project will include more than 600 satellites by OkOrdinary5299

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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