Secrets of Communist computing - How the USSR's thirst for computing power led to its downfall
source: http://www.makeahistory.com/index.php/free-stuff/274-secrets-of-communist-computing
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This is the story of the machines they created, and how the technologies intended to boost Communism played a key part in toppling the Soviet state. Building digital computers in Soviet post-war Russia was a dangerous business. To protect himself and his staff from criticism that could end in them being sent to labour camps, Russian computer pioneer Sergei Lebedev of the Kiev Electro-Technical Institute declared that the computers they wanted to build would carry out only ideologically correct calculations. .. http://www.makeahistory.com/index.php/free-stuff/274-secrets-of-communist-comput...
