During the Stalin era and for several years afterwards, cybernetics research was discouraged as "anti-soviet": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suppressed_research_

During the Stalin era and for several years afterwards, cybernetics research was discouraged as "anti-soviet": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suppressed_research_in_the_Soviet_Union#Cybernetics http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suppressed_research_in_the_Sovi...