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    5 months ago

    Ukrainians literally built nearly everything the Soviet Union flaunted as their highest tech innovation.

    Yet another supporting point to your statement. Sergei Korolev, the father of the Soviet Union’s space program was born in Ukraine in Zhytomyr, a town just west of Kyiv. He was the innovator that came up with the engines and the rocket that put the first human in space.