That came later, when Soviet mathematicians envisioned that the computers could provide a solution to the fundamental calculation problems of socialism. Soviets

That came later, when Soviet mathematicians envisioned that the computers could provide a solution to the fundamental calculation problems of socialism. Soviets had very strong mathematicians, and they knew that planning as envisioned by the socialist ideology is impossible using manual calculations, however they thought algorithmic planning could provide a huge edge there. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OGAS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OGAS - this was a Soviet Internet plus AI optimizer plus data lake plus everything else. It fizzled out, though, for a couple of reasons - first, it was not clear that it can actually do any of it, and second, The Party kinda felt uneasy with algorithms controlling everything - if the General Secretary says one thing, and the computer says another - who's in charge here?! And once you allow The Party to mess with it, it loses the whole point - it's garbage in, garbage out.