Actually theSoviet communist dream went down the tubes long before the space race.

The murder of 2 million so called kulaks maybe. Still you weren't alone in buying into the dream. Have you ever come actoss the novels of Edward Up ward? He was a very committed marxist - and at one time WH Auden and Christopher Isherwood's best friend and the undoubted leader of the literary movement they represented.

I find Upward's chronicling of an intelligent man trying to reconcile the mounting evidence of a dream gone rotten, very moving. I guess the trouble is that the world is not an abstract concept.

Christianity, communism, Islam, Capitalism....we just can't be trusted with dreams.