Rothmus 🏴
@Rothmus · Aug 29, 2026
The Soviet Union put the first man in space thanks to an engineer they enslaved.
Stalin’s secret police locked the country’s top scientists in prison design bureaus called sharashkas.
While imprisoned there, aircraft designer Tupolev personally requested the rocket engineer
Elon Musk
@elonmusk
Korolev was incredible
12:18 AM · August 30, 2026 · 105.4K views
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