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Originally Posted by mg1942
Having Nazis in the US ICBM program did not stop USSR from launching the world's first ICBM. What's amazing is that USSR didn't need Nazi assistance.
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Actually the Russians had Germans working for them as well, though not in as high a profile role as the Wernher von Braun had in the US program. Also many earily American and Soviet designs were based on the German V-2. Of course one shouldn't sell the soviet rocket program short. Their first successful design not directly based on the V-2 is still used today in modified form for space launches after all.