Russia couldn't create anything like an SR for one and Sputnik wasn't a spy satellite. They don't even compare. The US was able to watch anything it wanted on the ground for three decades while Russia put several sputnik's into orbit for a matter of days for each. Sputnik helped in development of icbm's and ran tests for human space flight, it was not able to spy on the US.
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