Which Soviet corporation could have become the equivalent of Skynet?

Angel Heart

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Which Soviet corporation could have become the equivalent of Cyberdyne Systems?

I'm working on scenario that is set in a really crapsack world. I am not familiar with the corporations and companies of the former Soviet Union and the little I know I only know from HoI2 so that 's why I need your help. My question would be: Which Soviet company or manufacturer could have become the closest thing to Cyberdyne Systems of the Terminator universe if the USSR survived?

Self aware AI that works like a hive mind and combat cyborgs belong without a doubt in the realms of ASB (for now), but the goal is not to actually have a Soviet Skynet but a company that might have the potential to become one. Or do you think that certain companies and manufacturers have to merge?
 
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This belongs in ASB, Angel Heart.

(But in keeping with the fact Skynet in the Terminator stories isn't actually the creation of a reallife American corporation to begin with, I would just take some fictional character or organisation out of one of Andrei Tarkovsky's genre movies and use them as the basis for a Soviet-equivalent Cyberdyne Systems.)
 

Angel Heart

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I have to apologize. I mixed up Cyberdyne with Skynet. It's been a while since I watched the movies. I changed it.

Maybe the question was a bit akward. For example: I thought some Soviet electronics company might fuse with STZ Factory Design Bureau or take over the Nizhny Tagil factories. As said, I do not expect to actually have a Soviet Cyberdyne, but a Soviet corporation that might be the most likely candidate to become the closest thing to it. I think of an electronics equivalent of Gazprom for example.
 
Not sure but...

I am not familiar with Soviet companies so I am approaching this from an angle on how to achieve a Skynet like system from whatever means I can think up within the Cold War climate.

What I do know is a Socialist regime that managed to build a fully integrated (abet primitive by today's standards) computer system that managed to coordinate a government planned supply and demand was the Chilean Salvador Allende regime's Project Cybersyn. Maybe if the junta that couped him took advantage of the system for fully centralized military coordination and resupply as well as increased automation with American financing it could have resembled something of Skynet, with what could be achieved at that time.:p

The only way I can think of the Soviets ever greatly advancing in the realm of electronics would be if the Politburo initiated a 5 year plan on building it up; or if more branches of the USSR had more access to utilize such advanced government funded endeavors as the automated re-entry and landing for the Buran spacecraft. Maybe even if the military somehow from that spawned auto-piloting system for nuclear cruise missile submarines. If such systems were went through extensive micronization, advancement in features and if the Soviet Union didn't collapse perhaps today such systems would bear fruit with Japanese financing.:D
 
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