@comrade_Comrade As I mentioned before, PBS has been showing a lot of documentaries about the Space Program leading up to today's 50th anniversary of the Moon landing, and their commentator Sergei Khrushchev had a lot to say about Korolev.
At the time, the US was suffering a bit of an inferiority complex, with the Soviets having launched a satellite before we did, put a living creature in orbit before we did, put a man in space before we did, put a woman in space before we did. . . They even landed on the Moon before we did! if you count the unmanned Luna 2's crash landing, and Luna 9's soft landing. But we got our guy on the Moon first, and it was an American who hit the first lunar golf ball, so there!
And yes, the burgeoning feminist movement (called Women's Lib back then) did use Tereshkova and our beat-the-Russians mentality to their advantage. See how much equality Russian women have? Why can't we do just as well or better? As you say, a special kind of ignorance.
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@comrade_Comrade As I mentioned before, PBS has been showing a lot of documentaries about the Space Program leading up to today's 50th anniversary of the Moon landing, and their commentator Sergei Khrushchev had a lot to say about Korolev.
At the time, the US was suffering a bit of an inferiority complex, with the Soviets having launched a satellite before we did, put a living creature in orbit before we did, put a man in space before we did, put a woman in space before we did. . . They even landed on the Moon before we did! if you count the unmanned Luna 2's crash landing, and Luna 9's soft landing. But we got our guy on the Moon first, and it was an American who hit the first lunar golf ball, so there!
And yes, the burgeoning feminist movement (called Women's Lib back then) did use Tereshkova and our beat-the-Russians mentality to their advantage. See how much equality Russian women have? Why can't we do just as well or better? As you say, a special kind of ignorance.