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Reading this article and checking out this site got me thinking on how the Soviet Union had no problem with computer manufacturing but sorely lacked in research. But the biggest irony being that they already had someone who pioneered in computer science (Sergey Alexeyavich Lebedev) and even helped design what seems to be the only widely used original design in the USSR (BESM) that upon completion was the fastest computer in Europe. It was even said to calculate orbital parameters in 1 minute as apposed to NASA's IBM mainframe at the time which took half an hour.

So how does the message through to the Politiebureau that Soviet scientists had the right stuff to and need to design all kinds of computers?
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