A Look Back at the USSR Computer Industry
&gt; Why didn’t they have more computers?<p>&gt; The USSR was hardly a backward country — they’d launched Sputnik<p>&gt; It (the computer) performed 250,000 calculations for artillery tables in about 2 and half hours.<p>&gt; Nearly all the computer usage was in the military and academia.<p>One common argument ideologically charged people make to counter capitalism advancements is that cell phones were invented in the USSR. That might be the case but I suspect such technology was never intended to be distributed to the common person but for war and propaganda. I&#x27;m not a big fan of this kind of incentive.