Wow sabotage yes.
http://www.techradar.com/news/computing/secrets-of-communist-computing-618217Cold War paranoia may have brought the world to the brink of destruction, but it sparked an era of invention on both sides of the pond.
In September 1950, fearing that Soviet computing trailed America by 15 years, Director of the Moscow Institute of Precise Mechanics and Computer Technology Mikhail Lavrent'ev outlined the problem in a speech to colleagues.
The Russians understood what worked, but they had only produced a handful of primitive analogue devices. New digital number-crunching systems gave their scientists the opportunity to make huge leaps forward, but at what cost?
This is the story of the machines they created, and how the technologies intended to boost Communism played a key part in toppling the Soviet state.
