Not necessarily. Space research and a few other special programs were different from the rest of the industry (both in the USSR and the USA). Greatly simplifyin

Not necessarily. Space research and a few other special programs were different from the rest of the industry (both in the USSR and the USA). Greatly simplifying, I would say it like this: the top level of the industrial development in the USSR was on the par with the rest of the world; the average level was below that of the West.