Comment by flohofwoe

> USA got the cream of the crop of the managers of the German missile program, while the USSR got the workers

That's a bit oversimplified. The Russians got quite a few important scientists and engineers in other areas (aircraft design, nuclear physics, electronics, radar, optics), they just didn't make as good use of them as the US (e.g. the 'American Germans' essentially won the space race for the US).