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WW2 and the Space Race. Russia proved to show up the US in both.
Despite what the US claims, it was Russia who beat Germany and ultimately beat we Japanese and drove us out of the mainland.
Also Russia in the space race just embarrassed America time and time again.
1. First man in space
2. First space station
3. First sattelite
4. First ICBM capable of sending things into space
5. First space probe
6. First space shuttle
7. First robotic rover
8. First retried samples from other bodies.
9. First atmospheric data and pictures of all of our solar system planets
10. First manned docking abilities and unmanned docking as well.
etc
Russia literally owned space innovation. And the US wasted 25 billion dollars (150 billion today) of the taxpayers money to use Russian inventions and put a man on the moon and then declare that they beat Russia. It's beyond a joke, Russians were laughing.