• @finitebanjo
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    -32 hours ago

    Probably the failure of the USSR to compete with “capitalist science”.

    • @[email protected]
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      253 minutes ago

      The ussr managed to get nearly all of the firsts in the space race while spending less than a tenth of what the US spent to lose nearly all of the firsts in the space race.

      • @finitebanjo
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        Cool cool what did that earn them by the 70s? How well off were they into the 80s? Switching to oligarchy capitalism didn’t help them, though, they still used the Energia Engines from 1988 until 2017, but where they really struggled was Chemistry and Medicine.

    • @[email protected]
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      22 hours ago

      Wow 70 years of history is so flat, it just folds right up in your pocket like that, stunning. Its possible you’ve left a few details out

      • @finitebanjo
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        -12 hours ago

        You claimed to be a communist yet you literally just defended a dictatorship, lmao.