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by tokamak 14 days ago
We will never know the whole truth as that specific culture typically bend the facts and there are little to no proofs of the claims. During soviet era the narrative was that Russian scientists (soviet elites always preferred Russia over other republics) are behind most of human scientific advantages and others simply steal from them.
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USSR would be nothing with Ukraine SSR doing the heavy lifting. Russia was just the parasite on top of them.
Yeah, they are even struggling to make ballistic rockets now without the access to Yuzhmash

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pivdenmash

Favorite claim they made?