I don’t get the point of this comparison with China unless you also look at Chinese computer industry in the same time period.
Whatever criticism you may have of the USSR’s rate of adoption how is this comparable to the Chinese experience in the 21st century? China can only have a computer industry at all because of the decades they spent being friendly with the west, having all their factories at home and proactively not giving a shit about patents and copyright.
If the USSR had the opportunity to have iPhone factories in Moscow perhaps history would be different too otherwise what is the point?
I don’t get the point of this comparison with China
To learn more about why, between two major socialist nations, one has a large manufacturing base and high adoption rate of computers compared to its contemporaries and the other did not, so as to gain a better understanding of how nations in general develop economically.
I don’t get the point of this comparison with China unless you also look at Chinese computer industry in the same time period.
Whatever criticism you may have of the USSR’s rate of adoption how is this comparable to the Chinese experience in the 21st century? China can only have a computer industry at all because of the decades they spent being friendly with the west, having all their factories at home and proactively not giving a shit about patents and copyright.
If the USSR had the opportunity to have iPhone factories in Moscow perhaps history would be different too otherwise what is the point?
To learn more about why, between two major socialist nations, one has a large manufacturing base and high adoption rate of computers compared to its contemporaries and the other did not, so as to gain a better understanding of how nations in general develop economically.