Western propaganda is so boring... Yes, Tu-144 wasn’t the biggest success story of the Soviet civil aviation, but it gave birth to this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupolev_Tu-160
And 35 years later the West is still unable to match Tu-160. The wise would say that every coin has a flip side, and every story about a Soviet “failure”, however one-sided coverage it usually receives in the Western propaganda, normally has too...