I’ve posted this elsewhere but

I agree that the USSR won the space race if we’re counting pure number of achievements, but it’s a bad argument to make because they’re no longer around to defend it. Even Russia barely celebrates the Soviet achievements these days. Similarly to how Apple is not the first to do jack shit that pushes technology further, they’re very good at marketing their features as higher quality and innovative to the point that people either 1.) believe Apple did everything first or 2.) Apple didn’t do it first, but they did it better than the ones who did it first

Still, the fact that the USSR was the first to send a person to space, and the first Asian, African, and Hispanic astronauts were communists is inspiring. Hoping China does similar projects with other communist countries