It is true that part of the anxiety feeding into the early Cold War was probably a sense that the USSR was having some spectacular successes that challenged the American claim that Democracy and Free Markets were superior to Totalitarianism and Communism. The early successes of the Soviet space program (first orbit of Earth, first contact with moon, fir…
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