I'm not sure where you're going with that, as all of the mentioned works still represent a time before people in general were forced to reckon with a post-Sovie

I'm not sure where you're going with that, as all of the mentioned works still represent a time before people in general were forced to reckon with a post-Soviet world. Even with it on the horizon, it would be several years before we would fall into the thought and habits of what that "means." One other thing to note of the pre/post-Soviet dissolution sci-fi media: the contrast of dominance over the enemy vs surviving within a status quo that is unlikely to change. That may be part of why you see protagonists "befriending" AI; it's more a reflection of hope than expectation. Once you get to post-9/11 media, relationships with AI become more complex and nuanced: I, Robot, Ex Machina, Her, Transcendence. (Perhaps a reflection of our decidedly mixed, toward the negative side, experiences in the Middle East; as well as the multiple crises that threatened the "end of society" and the subsequent recoveries, all within a generation.)