Soviet space program omitted reports of failure or trouble". Out of fear of admitting any defeat, reports of cosmonauts' missions leaned towards an exaggerated positive spin rather than factual substance. "The USSR was famously described by Winston Churchill as 'a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma' and nothing signified this more than the search for the truth behind its space program during the Cold War. Although the Space Race was literally played out above our heads, it was often obscured by a figurative 'space curtain' that took much effort to see through" says Dominic Phelan in the book "Cold War Space
Inside Fighting Russia Inside Fighting Russia Inside Fighting Russia (aka Our Russian Ally) is a 1942 22-minute Canadian short documentary film produced by the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) for distribution by United Artists, as part of the wartime "The World in Action" series. The film documents Russia's fight against Nazi Germany during the Second World War. "Inside Fighting Russia" is produced by Stuart Legg, and narrated by Lorne Greene. The film's French version title is "La Russie sous les armes". In 1942, during the Second World War, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, led by Joseph Stalin faced a formidable foe