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The Greatest Innovations of the Soviet Union

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The illegal dissollution of the USSR was one of Humanity's greatest tragedies, and anyone who thinks the Russian Federation is an improvement needs to do some serious introspection.

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- What was so illegal? Possibly the millions of USSR citizens taking the first flight or ride out of the Soviet bloc when it became available. Very illegal for the proletariat I'm sure.
  
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  The majority of Soviet citizens wished to retain Socialism, a fact that continued after the dissolution. The people fleeing newly established Capitalism was due to dissolved safety nets. 7 million people died due to "Shock Therapy."
  
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  the coup where Yeltsin ordered the military to fire upon parliament with tanks and instituted a rule-by-decree system to dissolve the government
  
  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1993_Russian_constitutional_crisis
  
  seems pretty illegal to me
  
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From one of the comments

Countries listed by the first launches of artificial Earth satellites:

USSR - 1957

USA - 1958

UK - 1962

Canada - 1962

Italy - 1964

France - 1965

Australia - 1967

Europe - 1968

Germany - 1969

Japan - 1970

China - 1970

Poland - 1973

Netherlands - 1974

Spain - 1974

India - 1975
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Countries listed by the first launches of space satellites with their own launch vehicles:

USSR - October 4, 1957

USA - February 1, 1958

France - November 26, 1965

Italy - April 26, 1967

Japan - February 11, 1970

China - April 24, 1970

UK - October 28, 1971

European Union - December 24, 1979

India - 18 July 1980

Israel - September 19, 1988

Russia - January 21, 1992

Ukraine - August 31, 1995

Iran - February 2, 2009

DPRK - December 12, 2012

Republic of Korea - 30 January 2013

New Zealand - January 21, 2018
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Countries listed by the first flights of astronauts:

USSR - April 12, 1961

USA - May 5, 1961

Czechoslovakia - March 2, 1978

Poland - June 27, 1978

GDR - 26 August 1978

Bulgaria - April 10, 1979

Hungary - May 26, 1980

Vietnam - July 23, 1980

Cuba - September 18, 1980

Mongolia - March 22, 1981

Romania - May 14, 1981

France - June 24, 1982

FRG - November 28, 1983

India - April 3, 1984

Canada - October 5, 1984
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Countries listed by the number of first-of-its-kind spacecraft (remarkable, of historical significance, with achievements that were made for the first time by one of the countries) until 1992:

USSR - 21

USA - 15

EU - 1
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Countries listed by the number of spacecraft launched to explore the solar system, as well as first-of-its-kind or noteworthy vehicles launched into low Earth orbit before 1992:

USSR - 115

USA - 84

EU - 4

Japan - 4

Germany - 2

UK - 1
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Countries listed by the number of successful orbital launches (not including emergency and partially emergency) until 1992:

USSR - 2278

USA - 903

Japan - 42

France - 39

China - 27

EU - 13

Kenya* - 9

India - 3

Australia - 2

Israel - 2

Italian naval spaceport "San Marco" located off the coast of Kenya and used to launch American missiles "Scout".
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Countries listed by the lowest proportion of emergency orbital launches for countries with more than 10 launches before 1992:

USSR - 5.54%

EU - 7.14%

USA - 11.25%

Japan - 12.24%

France - 14.89%

China - 17.65%
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Countries listed by the lowest proportion of accidental and partially accidental orbital launches for countries with more than 10 launches before 1992:

USSR - 7.13%

EU - 7.14%

Japan - 14.29%

USA - 14.65%

France - 17.02%

China - 20.59%
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The number of dead astronauts:

when performing space flight: in the USSR - 4, in the USA - 14;

in preparation for space flight: the USSR - 1, the USA - 5.
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Is this some contemporary soviet propaganda? I mean all the people who died for political reasons or because the state economy was mismanaged probably don't care much about these achievements.

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- (To borrow from Cowbee's comment a bit) Wealth inequality was far lower in the Soviet Union's socialist system than the Tsarist system before it, the capitalist system after it was overthrown (obviously), and than western capitalist countries in the same time period.
  
  Source
  
  Human Rights In The Soviet Union, Including Comparisons With The U.S.A. by Albert Szymanski
  
  Blackshirts and Reds by Michael Parenti
  
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  No wonder then that 90% of the Soviet population voted to stay in the Union, but of course that didn't stop its overthrow because capitalists had already taken it over by then.
  
  A poll in 2009
  
  As time passes though, the capitalist propaganda that kids in these places grow up with will probably start to outweigh the lived experiences of worsened living conditions after capitalists overthrew the USSR that their parents had. It's sad.
  
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  Funny you focus on whatever this is and conveniently ignore the millions murdered by the state.
  
  I'm here because my family escaped that shit.
  
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- I’m sure homeless people and victims of the opioid crisis in the US also don’t care about US achievements in for example the olympics but people still talk about them.
  
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  I’m sure homeless people and victims of the opioid crisis in the US
  
  Why would you bring up two things that the USSR did right and the US and Russia have done wrong? You’re torpedoing your own argument.
  
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