Thande
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Don't worry; 95% of the members on the board who post from Canada seem to be Soviet exiles (I guess there's no point to deny any more that my broken English and some knowledge of USSR has common cause of me being raised (very skeptical) Soviet citizen![]()
Probably. I always thought that the Soviet programme was at least as impressive as the American, given it was the 1960s - the way they built purely robotic rovers and even a sample-return robotic craft. But it's the image of man walking on the moon that people remember.Although I have no personal recollection of the events, generally I remember that it was both downplayed (certainly, is it natural to trumpet achievements of your adversary?) and recognized as great technological achievment. Soviets both claimed (loudly) that their program of unmanned probes (culminated with Lunokhod program) yielded far more results per man-hour invested and admitted (in hush-hush tone) that moon landing is far greater propaganda achievement. I guess they were right on both counts.