"Fred J. McCall" wrote in message
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(D.K.) wrote:

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

Talked about? Sure. Popularized? Not so much.

It didn't help that the Russians didn't allow TV broadcasts for a lot
of this stuff out of fear that something might go wrong.


Ever notice any of the parallels between current day China and the old
Soviet Union?

That flu virus that started in China was known for months. The Chinese tried
to black out the world on what was going on. People in China didn't even
know there was a deadly flu bug swirling all around them.

Now we see that they backed out on showing their space launch live.

Then you have all that Falun Gong and Tibet persecution stuff.

The question is how long before China implodes like the Soviet Union????


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