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@acb @collectifission Remember the USSR widely considered computers (then primarily business tools) as anti-Soviet, circa 1950-54? (In terms eerily familiar to students of western moral panics.) That set them back about a decade, during the mainframe era. And the USSR's tendency to run on central planning probably accounts for the rest.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybernetics_in_the_Soviet_Union#Official_criticism:_1950–1954