This is total lunacy. And a disservice at a time when our people need reminders of what we can achieve when we work together. The American people paid for that mission,on rockets built by Americans,with American technology & carrying American astronauts. It wasn’t a UN mission.https://twitter.com/businessinsider/status/1035193245385596928 …
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No. Not at all. The Soviets despised the Nazi invaders. In fact, they executed many of them outright, yet after the war they had no problems taking scientists. We did, too.
From what I have learned the Soviets ran Operation Osoaviakhim by essentially forcing them at gunpoint while the US Operation Paperclip was using (implied?) threats of prosecution of Nazi crimes. But I'm not sure if that isn't at least in part cold war propaganda.