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not with sputnik exactly but with the space program definitely yes. Before 1945 Stalin had full knowledge of the Atomic bomb and wanted German scientific information. Stalin, on NKVD advice, launched a renewal of soviet science, often selecting gulag scientists. Of course Stalin's achievement was virtually wiped from the record. But without Stalin's encouragement the USSR would have rapidly collapsed in the mod fifties instead of 1990. Whether or not this was a good thing requires history to judge impartially.

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