US moon landing was actually mentioned in sovient press. Here is the example Actually this article is positiv. It describes US astonauts as heroes and admits great success of US space mission. But the greatest thing is the ending of this article. It can be translated something like this: "Though world press cheers great success of Appolon-11 mission, it (world press) is once agains question US government about unsolved social problems such as removing gettos and feeding starving poor people" I think in scientific sovient magasines there were much less propoganda then in mass press So, there were articles in press, and my parents knew about Appolon-11 mission. P.S. A lot of people in USSR also listen to BBC on radio, so it was impossible for sovient press to just ignore US moon mission success.