Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Nós escolhemos ir para a Lua" in Portuguese language version.
...in the mind of the Soviet citizen, speeches were better left to celebrate victories, not plans for victories.
It took the Soviet Union three years and three months to respond to Kennedy's speech... Khrushchev, it seems... was never particularly interested in competing with Apollo. It was only Korolev's singular persistence... that resulted in the August 1964 decision.