>USSR managed to have an "industrial revolution" over 20 years and beat Nazi Germany, then was the first country to space That's just half the story. Space exp

>USSR managed to have an "industrial revolution" over 20 years and beat Nazi Germany, then was the first country to space That's just half the story. Space exploration was built on slave labor (everybody knows Gagarin, but who would remember Korolev and Ghlushko?) and all the industry largely rots because it proved to be not competitive after USSR collapse, so eastern block is poor in the end and still has to bear the cost of forced aspect of it.