This comment is entirely misguided. I recommend at least reading Wikipedia before commenting. [0] Cybernetics has little to do with computing. It's just a subs

This comment is entirely misguided. I recommend at least reading Wikipedia before commenting. [0] Cybernetics has little to do with computing. It's just a subset of control theory applied to non-technical areas. In particular, politics - which of course was considered by Stalin/the party as an attack on their authority. So they declared cybernetics as bourgeois pseudoscience, after Wiener's book got popular. Communist party's condemnation of cybernetics, which lasted whopping 4-5 years in 50s, got absolutely nothing to do with either computers, computer science, electronics, or control theory as an engineering discipline. In fact it had zero effect on anything, it was simply a moral panic in the media. Nobody "emigrated to California" (how on Earth?..) as a result of that propaganda stunt, in particular because they couldn't. Actually, USSR developed their native computers in that period and after that. It was long before they decided to copy IBM. I have no idea why cybernetics in USSR became such a meme. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybernetics_in_the_Soviet_Union https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybernetics_in_the_Soviet_Unio...