War in Space with Tim Marshall
Warfare
Neil Armstrong's Gigantic Leap
Thousands of people died in those death camps trying to create the works through which they would develop the V1s and V2s, but also the massive launch sites. It was deemed to be unacceptable to the American public. And therefore his past was covered up. But Colorov is doing similar work in Russia. When you get to post-Second Wall era, there is this straight race between the Soviets and the Americans in order to prove which society was better. And the Russians, when they lost that race, pretended they weren't in it. And they were. After Glasnost and the fall of communism, the archives were open and they were absolutely trying to get to the moon first
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