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Failson desperately tries to explain why the primitive Slavic hordes actually didn't beat the superior Anglo-Saxon ubermensch in the space race. rage-cry cope yuri

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[โ€“] xiaohongshu@hexbear.net 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

They had the entire Nazi V-2 team with von Braun and all the top ranking scientists, all the blueprints and documentations, intact copies of the rockets and launchers, and trained crew for launching the rockets, and still lost the space race to the Soviets who had to reverse engineer from scratch.

[โ€“] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

"Ah but you don't understand, the soviets, like today's Chinese, are incapable of original thought, and copies all their designs from NASA! smuglord " - every redditor ever.

No seriously, I saw a comment on a thread about idk, those emulation handhelds(?) and a Redditor said the Chinese are incapable of making ballpoint pens until 2017.

As long as Westerners have an enemy, they think so highly of themselves that they can't conceive of anyone from bad country doing what they do.