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The Nazis invented rocketry.

Are you saying that the moon missions were a hypocritical endorsement of the values of national socialism?

Mechanical tools and politics are generally orthogonal.

The Saturn V rockets used in the moon missions were largely designed by von Braun and Arthur Rudolph, who were both Nazis to some degree or another.

Well in the case of East Germany at least, most engineering standards were already established so it made no sense to change them.

The problem that they had was ultimately the political and social system that produced the manifestation of the designs. The underlying designs were sound.

I'm slightly inclined to agree with the principles of Marxism-Leninism but it suffered from one of the many things that the human race is good at doing: Good specification, bad implementation.

I doubt that these people know anything about technology. The governments generally hire some companies to do the obscure technology "magic" thing. As for people, most of them have probably never learned a thing about the technologies they use.