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One of the world's best-notable confederacy theories - that the Apollo 11 Moon landing was unreal - remains selfsame popular in Soviet Russia, (you can't even imagine how a great deal). Some Russians are even donating money in the hopes of 'proving' this theory.

"One small ill-use for human, unitary giant leap for mankind." Neil Armstrong's famous phrase, which he said happening the Moon, marked the start of a new epoch, with humans for the beginning going beyond the boundaries of our planet and landing place on another supernal physical structure. That was in distant 1969.

Now, we dream of Mars-landing missions, and read approximately leaks from a hole-and-corner Martian conference held by Elon Musk. But you roll in the hay what? Decades since 1969, many Russians are still incapable to believe in this "immature step" that Armstrong took on the Moon. True, the and so-called 'lunar cabal' was invented in the U.S., only no other country in the world has so to the full embraced this undestroyable confederacy theory equally Russia. Many Russians believe that the U.S. government artificial a complex hoax, and that the alleged Moon landing was in point of fact filmed in Hollywood. At the moment, this myth is NOT believed by - brace yourself - single 24 percent of Russians!

1990s fake news

This was non always the case. In the Soviet Union, therein landmark year of 1969, no one - neither officials, nor the media - doubted the achievement of the American astronauts.

"When we were receiving signals from the Moon, we were receiving them from the Moon, not from Hollywood," said Russian cosmonaut Georgy Grechko, a member in the Soviet lunar program, which was canceled after the Apollo 8 mission for the first fourth dimension orbited the Synodic month. At the time, completely Soviet reconnaissance systems were watching the first manned flight to the Moon. Soviet radio equipment was receiving signals from Phoebus 11, besides as all its sound communications and the TV footage of the landing place itself.

"Staging a hoax look-alike that would have perchance been just as noncompliant as carrying out the rattling mission," another cosmonaut and blank space shuttle designer, Konstantin Feoktistov, concluded in his book,The Flight of Life. IT would have been necessary first to send a TV station to the Moonlight, then send Apollo 11 a answerer. And create dozens of sham factories manufacturing ballistic capsule. And stage the return to Earth ... It is every last excessively complicated. Even for a space race betwixt the two superpowers.

Away the latterly 1990s, however, the world-famous 'lunar conspiracy' reached Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic where information technology gained a lot of followers. Generation assign it to the fact that the bran-new and fragile Russia was in desperate need of sham-patriotic concepts, such As the belief that the Americans had deceived everyone, including the Soviet Union, which was always the first in everything. This is some other reason why the 'lunar conspiracy' still holds sway among many Russians.

'Great American lie'

The Russian embrace of this conspiracy hypothesis dates to the publication of Yury Mukhin's Quran,Anti-Apollo: Lunar Scam of the USA. The author claims that money allocated for the lunar program was allegedly stolen, while the lunar landing place scenes were shot by Stanley Kubrick, the director behind the cult film, 2001: A Space Odyssey. Moreover, according to Mukhin, Country communists and some State scientists were part of the conspiracy, for the sake of certain net, of course.

But the 'the great American lie' would hardly have gained so much currency in Russia had it non found support among many reputable individuals and the media.

Astronaut John Young, lunar module pilot, walks on the surface of the Moon near the leg of the Lunar Module (LM) 'Eagle' during the Apollo 11 exravehicular activity.

Astronaut John Boyish, lunar faculty pilot, walks on the surface of the Moonlight near the wooden leg of the LEM (Lumen) 'Eagle' during the Apollo 11 exravehicular activity.

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Diary keeper Alexander Gordon ready-made two documentaries about the 'lunar conspiracy'. In 2007, the scientific journalTopical Problems of Modern Sciencepublished an article 'proving' that at the speed it was fast-flying the U.S. rocket could not have reached the Moon. Or, here is another: in 2022, Dmitry Rogozin, the head of the Russian space agency, Roscosmos, announced that Russia was preparing a Moon mission: among other things, with the followers purpose. "We have set the task of flying there to delay whether they [the Americans] were thither or not <...> They articulate they were, we bequeath check into."

All this is happening despite the fact that the State Academy of Sciences has officially condemned the 'lunar conspiracy' as pseudoscience, and Russian President Vladimir Putin dismissed IT as "nonsense."

Show goes on

Judgment by opinion polls, 65 percent of people who think that the 1969 Moon landing ne'er happened have merely a secondary educate education. Interestingly, the desire to establish the 'truth' goes far on the far side mine run curiosity: some Russians are even off prepared to donate their personal money for the cause.

In 2022, a accumulation was started on the crowdfunding platform, Boomstarter, to build a micro-orbiter with a camera to verify the Apollo 11 landing site. It was launched by a blogger mesmerized aside space. The objective was 800,000 rubles ($12,000), but the actual sum raised was more than twice greater.

World Health Organization are these people? Many are those who still take set out in infinite discussions on online conspiracy theory forums; believe ME, there are a lot of them. And those who compose comments such American Samoa this one: "If you think the Americans are charlatans, I agree... There is a lot of proof for this. For example, there is something wrong with the footprint [presumptively, Armstrong's], or the flag is non flapping conservative, and so on. For representative, Rammstein's America video is proof of that, or the GTA Vice City game - there is a take set connected an island somewhere and there, in a domed construction, in that location is artificial lunar rock, and reportedly this is where they filmed the Moon landing."

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