When I think of Soviet states I think of the technological advances they made in regards to space travel. And so I think it's hight time that our small nations should get a hand on this. there would be different types of rockets to get blue prints from and entire places to build such massive structures that would take massive amounts of time and materials to build and launch. With so many people being employed by that very place in order to just launch it. Now of course we wouldn't do this for no reason so I think that if you launch a rocket and safely get the astronauts back they would become heros of the state and then you would get to parade them around and film them and talk about them on the radio. A huge PR boost, which would boost your people's happyness and loyalty to the party.