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Re:Soviet PCs by oblio on Friday October 16, 2015 @06:27PM (#10402420)
Communists had 1 positive obsession: exact sciences. See all that focus on math, physics, etc.

They probably thought they could solve all the world's problems as equations, with the head of state as the "master variable manipulator".

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Re:Soviet PCs by varjag on Saturday October 17, 2015 @06:03AM (#10403935)
This was a necessary instrument for the arms race.
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Re:Soviet PCs by oblio on Saturday October 17, 2015 @06:15AM (#10403954)
Of course. Someone in the Politburo read 1984.
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