For starters, there was little to be shared between unique programs in space industry and products for general public, they belonged to different universes even

For starters, there was little to be shared between unique programs in space industry and products for general public, they belonged to different universes even when being made by the same factories. In fact, it was quite common to point to the split between praise of spaceships in media and regular people living like swine, both in servile and in critical works. Which, of course, is not in any way specific to USSR, or very original. “Quality” and chances of success are relative, you need to have reference points. As space missions had none, they all were test flights AND scheduled flights at the same time. If boosters for a new rocket to Venus, radios and solar panels were ready, you launched a rocket with a dummy to check how those systems behaved, and so on.