The question of Soviet response to the Apollo missions occasionaly arises in the context of hoax theories. While gathering stuff on the history of astronomy from space, I came across a little book "Ryadom so Zvezdami" ("Near the stars") by Pyotr Klimuk, veteran of Soyuz 13 and flights to Salyuts 4 and 6. The book was evidently written in late 1977 (press date 1979). Starting on the first page of chapter 1, he muses (my quick translation):

"By now twenty years have passed. Only twenty! In this short span - an instant i the history of civilization - we saw the far side of the Moon, received signals from human apparatus on other planets, looked on a televised panorama of the "evening star" Venus, and performed analysis of the lunar surface. Above all, in this time humanity began to live in space: there, thrown into weightlessness, he welded metal and raised plants, so that, from beyond the atmosphere, he conversed with Earth via television, laying the groundwork for international cooperation in space.

...And we all watched on television as man took his first steps on the surface of the Moon; watched, delighted but not, if you please, surprised..."

So, in a book distinctly not intended for international consumption, cosmonauts understood the Apollo landings to have actually taken place, as of a few years afterward. I"ll mentally file that with the article from Novosti Kosmonavtiki about Soviet tracking and signal reception from Apollo lunar missions.

i'm sure the Cosmonauts got more than their fair share out of the wheat shipments..

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Don't even joke like that, dude.

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aww, come on.. it's fun to think of things from the perspective of the people that know what "really" happened.

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<CT reasoning on> But they're Russians! And Russians starts with an R! which rhymes with ARE! So they ARE lying!!!!!! </CT reasoning off>

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"If this were play'd upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction."
Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
"The Mayan symbol for "book" looks a lot like a triple hamburger, but I've never seen them claiming it as proof the Mayans had Big Macs." - KaiYeves
"Distance doesn’t matter much in space, where if you just start a thing off with the right kind of shove, sooner or later it will get where you want it to go." -Frederik Pohl, Mining the Oort

It's hard to laugh when the secret mirrors in your glasses are showing you a ninja in black gear with two sai climbing in your back window and
help!
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I don't care which rocket you use, whichever one you pick, I'll like it, I swear.
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Rovers forever! - ToSeek

so, what, now the Russian space agency is using the Russian mafia, which is using ninjas to silence people who question their motives?
it is, indeed, a strange time we live in..

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If he's climbing, how is he holding two sais?

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"If this were play'd upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction."
Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
"The Mayan symbol for "book" looks a lot like a triple hamburger, but I've never seen them claiming it as proof the Mayans had Big Macs." - KaiYeves
"Distance doesn’t matter much in space, where if you just start a thing off with the right kind of shove, sooner or later it will get where you want it to go." -Frederik Pohl, Mining the Oort

In his teeth, of course.

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"It is quite clear that Occam's razor does not sharpen in your pyramid." (Nicolas)

"Still, a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest." (Paul Simon)

You misunderstood the joke.
He was an HB ninja. (Now that is a scary thought)

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I want to go back to the moon.
I don't care which rocket you use, whichever one you pick, I'll like it, I swear.
"If you think the LHC will create black holes, you might as well believe Hobbits are at the bottom of your garden."- Dr. Mike Inglis
Rovers forever! - ToSeek

*ponders if there is a way to introduce NWO Kitty and the CT Ninja without violating the no non-space CT rule.....*

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Apollo: The History and the Hoax
Enter the World of Athran

That's the worst dental coverage I've ever heard of.

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"If this were play'd upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction."
Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
"The Mayan symbol for "book" looks a lot like a triple hamburger, but I've never seen them claiming it as proof the Mayans had Big Macs." - KaiYeves
"Distance doesn’t matter much in space, where if you just start a thing off with the right kind of shove, sooner or later it will get where you want it to go." -Frederik Pohl, Mining the Oort

He was an HB ninja. (Now that is a scary thought)

Oh, that's easy to deal with: Show him your birth certificate. This is government evidence that you exist. Since HBs ignore evidence - especially evidence provided by the government - they will immediately and fervently believe that you do not exist. They will still hear you if you mention that there is no alien saucer landing outside, and will leave immediately. Problem solved!

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"Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures - in this century, as in others, our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." St. Exupery

Brilliant! Count Zero, did you ever use the flashy thing on me?

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Relight the Firefly!

"It is quite clear that Occam's razor does not sharpen in your pyramid." (Nicolas)

"Still, a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest." (Paul Simon)

No, what you thought was a flash was just the light of Venus passing through swamp gas reflecting off a weather balloon.

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"If this were play'd upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction."
Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
"The Mayan symbol for "book" looks a lot like a triple hamburger, but I've never seen them claiming it as proof the Mayans had Big Macs." - KaiYeves
"Distance doesn’t matter much in space, where if you just start a thing off with the right kind of shove, sooner or later it will get where you want it to go." -Frederik Pohl, Mining the Oort

Actually, I just pulled out my katanas, which are evidence that I know how to deal with ninjas, and the wuss took off running.

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I want to go back to the moon.
I don't care which rocket you use, whichever one you pick, I'll like it, I swear.
"If you think the LHC will create black holes, you might as well believe Hobbits are at the bottom of your garden."- Dr. Mike Inglis
Rovers forever! - ToSeek