• shittydwarf@piefed.social
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    1 day ago

    They used to do this shit all the time to trick America into wasting time and resources trying to keep up with them

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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      15 hours ago

      As often as not they were chasing Americans’ empty promises (and occasionally achieving the impossible as a result).

      The hydrogen bomb, the probe into Venus, the Mirr Space Station… all launched in response to American campaigns.

      But the USSR of the 60s/70s was a wildly different place from post collapse Nationalist Russia. They scraped much of their R&D infrastructure for parts under Yeltsin.