During the Cold War, the space race was less about exploration and more about one-upping the Soviets. If the US couldn't actually pull off landing on the moon due to primitive technology, faking it would keep the USSR from looking like the dominant superpower.
It doesn’t hold up when you consider the broader context. The Soviets were watching every move with their own tracking systems, and they never contested the landing’s legitimacy. If it were faked, it would’ve been a perfect propaganda piece for them to expose it.
I never get when people say stuff like this, what's the argument here? Let's imagine the soviets did believe/know the americans faked the moon landing, what then? What's the game plan? Sound like a bunch of sore losers on their national television? Would be better to just take the L and go along with it
Just going along with it doesn't make sense for a government so invested in ideological competition. It wasn’t just about "winning" the space race but proving the superiority of their system over the capitalist one.
Interesting information, why are there so many meteorities in Antarctica though?
Some soyentists claim it’s due to the magnetic poles slightly changing the trajectory of meteors which causes them to land there more often.
>Moonlanding is fake
Nagolbud is a type of a guy who will scare the shit out of a kid who said "When i grow up i will go to the moon"
He would probably call the kid a Jesuit freemason for wanting to go to the moon
It’s not like they were able to demand a UN fact-check. If anything, crying foul with no hard proof would make them look weak to the rest of the world.
Stolen from Chud Star award..
The old moon landing footage looks so faked and staged kek
If going along doesn't make sense why did they go along? It's not like lying was beyond them, they were winning the so called space race up until that point, so why didn't they cease the opportunity to accuse america of faking it? Personally, I think it's because it would've been a vain performance.
If the moon landing was faked and the Soviets had evidence, they wouldn’t need to rely on a shaky propaganda campaign. Their intelligence and scientific communities could have discreetly exposed inconsistencies through neutral or allied nations, making the claims credible enough to undermine trust in the U.S. If they had evidence and chose to stay silent, it would mean they couldn’t refute the landing without risking their own credibility.
I would assume such a claim would fall to the Party leadership to decide on how to move forward.
I don't think evidence is a trump card, really in anything. There's plenty of evidence for a lot of things, both social/biological things (race realism, link between homosexuality/transgenderism and pedophilia, worse outcomes for race mixed children etc) and historic revisionism/government ops (holocaust gas chambers, 9/11 being a false flag, sandy hook being fake etc) yet most of these things, despite the evidence available, are fringe beliefs. That's because people aren't convinced by evidence, their beliefs are sort of predetermined. They dismiss ideas they see as problematic or implausible without looking at the evidence. The soviets wouldn't have any more evidence than we have today, so if today's moon landing deniers can't convince people we didn't land on the moon I doubt the soviets could (sort of begging the question here, but still). Maybe such an accusation coming from a world government would lend it more credence, maybe it would have the opposite effect, as the soviets were their adversary. I just think it's shaky reasoning to extrapolate from their inaction.
That's a good point. I tend to forget evidence doesn't always have the power I think it does. Not when it comes to the general populace, at least.
If the Soviets / Russia were actually enemies they wouldn't have a treaty with the USA since '59 over Antarctica, world is a stage...
Schizobabble, we were literally enemies with the USSR in the Cold War you should have not dropped out at 15
That was only for research and Science reasons so we wouldn’t fight over Antarctica
