i wonder if by overtaking the USSR/Russia space program Musk did more for progress of Russian society than almost anybody else - the space program has been one

i wonder if by overtaking the USSR/Russia space program Musk did more for progress of Russian society than almost anybody else - the space program has been one of the few [left-over from USSR] pillars of Russian nationalistic "greatness", and the "great" don't need progress, changes, etc. Kicking that pillar out provides for the additional stress which at the end may lead to some movement forward, to the "problem acknowledgement" first step, a "king is naked" kind of moment. The timing is especially bad for that "greatness" - the "high" of Crimea takeover has almost gone, Russia is banned from Olympics (with sport being another "pillar") because of doping, and Putin popularity is starting to go down due to total failure to handle coronavirus and high spike in the number of "dual sided pneumonia" and cardiovascular deaths (that number of extra deaths in the last couple months is more than 10% of coronavirus cases while official coronavirus deaths are only 1% - that miracle of Russian healthcare is naturally helped by special criminal penalty for spreading of false, ie. contradicting official, coronavirus information). I think history has its sense of irony - Musk started building his rockets as result of Russian refusal to sell rockets (i think it was about decommissioned ICBMs) to him 20 years ago. In alternative Universe by selling to him Russia would have probably slowed down SpaceX may be by 10 years or may be SpaceX wouldn't have even survived in such a case.