under the formerly suppressive scientific culture of the soviet union, cybernetics began to serve as an umbrella term for previously maligned areas of soviet science, such as structural linguistics and lamarckist genetics . under the headsmanship of academician aksel berg, the council of cybernetics was formed, an umbrella organisation dedicated to providing funding for these new lights of soviet science. by the 1960s, this fast legitimisation put cybernetics "in fashion" as career-minded scientists used cybernetics as a buzzword, and the council began to take on a life of its own. many of the original cyberneticians of the organisation began to grow disgruntled; complaints were made that berg seemed more focused on administration than scientific research, berg devising grand plans for the council to subsume "practically all of soviet science". by the 1980s, cybernetics had lost relevance in soviet scientific culture, as its terminology and political function was succeeded by those of informatics in the soviet union and, eventually, post-soviet states.