That does not mean to say at all that modern socialist societies cannot do any better at science because, for example, the Sputnik was a Russian thing, and that was not due to modern society but due to socialism having taken over.
這倒不是說現代社會主義國家就搞不好科學，史普尼克（人類第一枚人造衛星）可不是蘇聯弄出來的嗎？