thus, soviet cybernetics began its journey towards legitimisation. academician aksel berg, at the time deputy minister of defence, authored secret reports, beleaguering the deficient state of information science in the ussr, pointing towards the suppression of cybernetics as a prime culprit. party officials allowed a small soviet delegation to be sent to the first international congress on cybernetics in june 1956, who reported back how far the ussr was "lagging behind the developed countries" in computer technology. unfavorable descriptions of cybernetics were removed from official literature, and in 1958, russian translations of wiener were produced, alongside an original journal on cybernetics, "problemy kibernetiki" ["problems of cybernetics"], edited by lyapunov. for the 1960 first international federation of automatic control, wiener came to russia to lecture on cybernetics at the polytechnic museum, and met with his lecture hall being swarmed by eager scientists, some of whom sat on aisles and stairs to hear him speak; several soviet publications, including the formerly anti-cybernetic voprosy filosofii, streamed in for interviews from wiener. in the krushchev thaw, soviet cybernetics had not only become legitimised, but canonised, by the soviet administration.