Minor nit-pick he the first successful Lunikhod (unmanned Soviet moon-rover) was Luna 17 in November 1970- after Apollo 11, heck even after Apollo 13. (There had been a couple of launch failures earlier.)

Didnt the USSR have plans for monkey lander.

The monkey would land in a auto land method, chimp would open hatch,
pck up some rocks putting them into a return capsule. once the chimp
completed its jobs they would euthanize it, by remote control........

this USSR idea was to discredit the USA, stating even a chimp could do
it.......