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Old 10-19-2009, 06:28 PM   #18 (permalink)
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Given the tension between the USA and USSR...

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Once Buzz Aldrin spoke at my school when I was in junior high. He told some great stories and at the end we had a q and a, some kid asked him what he thought of the conspiracy theories. This was awhile ago so I'm paraphrasing, but what he said sealed the deal imo, he said "Well the Russians have never cried foul, and they had the most reason to, so you have to ask yourself if it was a hoax, don't you think the Soviets would have spent all their time and efforts to disprove it?"
...at that time, the suggestion on the Soviet Union's part that we were faking this just beat them in the cold war, might have been inflammatory enough to possibly trigger a full blown war.
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