
Conspiracy: was the moon landing faked?
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America Landing on the Moon
The Soviet angle is really interesting there. I mean, they would have had a strong motivation. You'd have thought to support these conspiracy theories, but did they give them much credence at all? Not only did the Russians not support any of the conspiracy theories about America landing on the moon in muted ways. They actually went as far as to celebrate America landing onthe moon in muted way. Clearly they'd lost a space race and weren't too happy about that. But they did in their encyclopedia's and other places certainly champion Neil Armstrong as somebody who had done historic feet. So within that context of their own achievements, they were apparently quite happy to recognise that all 11 have been a huge
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