• 420blazeit69 [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    The USSR achieved virtually every space race first except landing a man on the moon. And that was after ~30 years that included two world wars, a civil war + invasion by the premier world powers of the day, and a starting point of a largely pre-industrial backwater.