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Originally Posted by Nietzsche
There was a little thing known as the "Cold War" going on at the time. If the Soviet Union had any inkling that we had faked it, they would've shown the world. Why? Because Soviet radar was tracking the mission.
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Exactly! There was no reason for the Soviets to assist the US in anyway shape or form. Any possible way to demoralize and unsettle the American people without an act of war would have been used, especially something this monumental.
Even further, the US was too deep in Soviet stress to take the time to fake an epic moon landing. There'd be no reason to do all the stage work, if Russia could have simply proved it themselves. It'd be terribly economically stupid to go through all that work, especially since the Russians would have blown it all up in our faces if we tried.