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indeed. although as far as I know USSR also never officialy said these
lunar expeditions were for real. It was ignored in fact. USSR was
perhaps the only country in the world where "US moon landings" were
not broadcasted live on TV.

Michael

US moon landings were broadcasting in USSR! You are just too young to
remember.

Yep, they were broadcast. I vaguely remember it when I was a kid.

What I'd like to know is how widely Soviet space achievements
(Sputnik, Gagarin, Leonov, Tereshkova) were popularized in the USA?

Quite widely, at least for my cohort; I was born in 1950, and was quite
space-mad up through the mid-1970s, at least. As were most of the boys,
and some of the girls, that I went to school with.

Not at all. Sputnik created the space race...which Russia eventually lost,
but you won't find a single yankee soul who knows who Tereshkova was.

Maybe there's something wrong with kids from New England, but every kid
my age certainly knew who Valentina Tereshkova, as well as Gagarin,
Titov, and the rest of the early crowd.