How the Soviets won the space race for equality

The Soviets were so progressive. Just stunning and brave.

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what ddid they mean by this?

Meanwhile, back on Earth:

–Robert C. Toth (Los Angeles Times Service), “Black protest again mounts in Moscow,” Honolulu Advertiser, November 28, 1975

https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/261819916/

(Access to the paper’s image requires payment, but the optical character recognition (OCR) text is available free of charge and appears legible.)

We need to forget our painful past that was the space program. I wish that we could simply blow up the moon and try again with a more diverse team of astronauts, preferable led by the disabled, obese, purple-haired, transgendered feminist sort who freely roamed the halls of the NY Times in the 1960s.

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