similar to how the USSR was constantly made to look more technologically advanced
You mean like how they beat the US to every milestone except actually putting a footprint on the damn moon? Russia was always ahead until they ran out of budget. All the US did was quietly admit defeat, hire the designer of the V2 rocket (of nazi germany weapons designer fame) to re-create his rocket for a moon landing and then the US brag like they achieved it.
You really swallowed the propaganda hook, line and sinker.
Except for a very early phase when the USSR had a head start (btw also because of German rocket scientists) the so called “space race” wasn’t really one.
And in other military areas the difference was even bigger. But NATO needed a scary enemy, so the USSR had to do somehow.
That is not to say the USSR didn’t made amazing technological achivements. Russia was basically a rural backwater when the communists took over.
You mean like how they beat the US to every milestone except actually putting a footprint on the damn moon? Russia was always ahead until they ran out of budget. All the US did was quietly admit defeat, hire the designer of the V2 rocket (of nazi germany weapons designer fame) to re-create his rocket for a moon landing and then the US brag like they achieved it.
You really swallowed the propaganda hook, line and sinker.
Except for a very early phase when the USSR had a head start (btw also because of German rocket scientists) the so called “space race” wasn’t really one.
And in other military areas the difference was even bigger. But NATO needed a scary enemy, so the USSR had to do somehow.
That is not to say the USSR didn’t made amazing technological achivements. Russia was basically a rural backwater when the communists took over.