How Space Exploration Replaced Religion in the USSR 

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The cult of science and space exploration in the Soviet Union was as close as to religion as you could get in an atheist state. Unfortunately it ended up being one of the few positive trends that disappeared with the collapse of communism.

Article by Sasha Rospopina from 2015 in The Calvert Journal on ​​how Soviet faith in space became bigger than God.

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