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I did not know that computing was so accessible to regular people in the USSR. Some aspects of USSR life seemed a little bit old fashioned, and there was lots of talk about how cool products that people wanted, sometimes were not available in the socialist countries. So I guess I just assumed that people did not have computers, at least not at home. Sounds like I was wrong about that. It's very cool to think that the Eastern European computer industry made the computer parts from scratch, rather than importing from Taiwan, Korea, Japan etc. Too bad they did not continue with that. It is a bit creepy that in Europe (and America) we are no longer able to put together a computer from scratch. We are 100% dependant on parts that only Asian countries have the know-how to assemble.
Most of Soviet computers after Brezhnev were copies of Western analogs at least by architecture. Brezhnev is often criticized for the decision to copy rather than develop ourselves. Before that the USSR made computers of its own architecture. Some people even called the politburo meeting where this decision was taken a disaster.