The Soviet Union in 1956 revealed there were 200 million people in Russia. According to CIA documents, from 1957 to 1960 they spent the equivalent of approx $400 million a year on their space program. Which means that they could have given people the equivalent of $2 a person per year instead.
https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/DOC_0000316255.pdf
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