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You really swallowed the propaganda hook, line and sinker.
Except for a very early phase when the USSR had a head start (btw also because of German rocket scientists) the so called "space race" wasn't really one.
And in other military areas the difference was even bigger. But NATO needed a scary enemy, so the USSR had to do somehow.
That is not to say the USSR didn't made amazing technological achivements. Russia was basically a rural backwater when the communists took over.