1958 Russian, Soviet Propaganda Told The World They Were Superior. America Pushed Back

1958 was a very special year. The USSR, Soviet Union Russia had launched into Earth orbit Sputnik 1 in October 1957, shocking the world and frightening the USA because of the rocket that launched it and its capability to become an ICBM, an Intercontinental ballistic missile. Just a month later they launched Sputnik 2 with a dog onboard Laika. To many in the world, it looked like the Russians were the scientific leaders in the United States was falling behind. The Russians took advantage of this by launching a global PR campaign that preached their superiority and showed in a variety of ways, America s inferiority. They show their latest commercial aircraft, their Russian auto, Tolstoy returning to join the system, Soviet art and culture. Among the subjects they presented as the failures of the American system were racial disparity and educational inequality between men and women. When American investigators visited the Soviet Union to see what they were doing, they saw a much more serious educational sy