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Old 07-April-2004, 04:54 AM
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Originally Posted by PhantomWolf
What I want to know is if the Russians knew it was a hoax and were bought off, why didn't they ask to get some to. I mean how hard would it have been to mocked up some Soviet Moon Landings at the same time as the US ones. Then they could have played theirs a few months later and bemoaned, "Oh the capitalist pigs beat us, but at lest we made it." But they never did, which to me seems incredulous if it was all a hoax and they knew it was.
Funny you should mention that, PhantomWolf--I was just thinking about that the other day. Maybe LBJ and Brehznev could have flipped a coin to see who got to be first to the moon. ;-)
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