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A chilling question looms in the air: What if the very technology that could have changed the world instead fizzled into obscurity? The trailer for “Why the Soviet Computer Failed” pulls viewers into an enigmatic narrative, blending history and intrigue in a way that keeps you on the edge of your seat.
From the opening frame, the atmosphere is palpableโdark, moody visuals twirl through a brilliant 4K landscape that captures the stark contrasts of Soviet-era grit and ambition. Shadows and light dance together, perfectly setting the stage for a tale woven with mystery and technology lost in time. Every shot is meticulously crafted to amplify the tension, immersing you in a world youโll want to unravel.
Amidst the haunting score, two striking moments stand out: an unsettling confrontation between rival engineers, and an audacious decision that could change the fate of computing forever. These glimpses tease a narrative packed with revelations, making you eager to discover what lies beyond the surface.
The trailer also showcases returning cast members whose compelling performances captivate once more, alongside new characters that introduce surprising twists. Each actor brings a depth that transforms historical figures into relatable beings, making their struggles feel incredibly personal and immediate.
Donโt miss out on the chance to dive into this riveting exploration of ambition and failure. Watch the trailer for “Why the Soviet Computer Failed” now, and share it with friendsโbecause history deserves to be remembered, and this cinematic journey will leave you questioning everything you thought you knew.
In 1986, the Soviet Union had slightly more than 10,000 computers. The Americans had 1.3 million.
At the time of Stalin’s death, the Soviet Union was the world’s third most proficient computing power. But by the 1960s, the US-Soviet computing gap was already years long. Twenty years later, the gap was undeniable and basically permanent.
Why did this happen? The Soviet state believed in science and industrial modernization. Support for research & development and the hard sciences were plentiful. They had the countryโs finest minds.
Goodness gracious, they launched Sputnik! They landed on Venus! How did it come to this?
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My heart is human, my brain is IBM.
Before discussing anything try to compare what exact was economical, scientific and industrial base of USA and Russian Empire at 1914th. Not to mention even bigger difference in this base after civil war in Russia and later consequenses of WW2. Incomparable gap and demanding the same result simply ridiculous.
8-bit microcomputers are what killed Soviet computing. In the West, millions of people were acquiring computers and messing around with them, while the Soviets stayed in the "big iron" mainframe stage. Even when they made clone microcomputers, nobody actually had them because demand and supply were decoupled by foolish command economics. Not that I'm some kind of idiotic free market nazi, by any means…
no no no. It is very cute to think that the Soviets made computers at all
Ah well, concerning rocket science not only the Soviets took the German knowledge by deportation of scientists but also the US deported German scientists, actually to a larger amount. The US forgot about Werner von Braun and his team, obviously. This video has some serious propaganda issues.
The first general purpose prgrammable computer was the Zuse Z1 build in Berlin 1936…
Polish People's Republic in 60's polish K-202 computer was more advance than IBM stuff. To not make soviets mad, polish communist's buy soviet IBM clones. And constructor of K-202 was lay off, he end as a pig farmer.
Soviets failed in everything by the fall of the USSR and the Eastern Bloc. They failed because Government control of everything led to a lazy but hurry up culture. They coyld have twenty doors to a building's front entry but only one could be used so that they could avoid replacing broken ones. They also just needed to have produced a facsimile of a product or service over making sure it were working properly. Add in that everyone was graded by an average result of a class or group, and you got idiots with higher test results than the truth, with excellent people held back by said morons. Computer science and all other disciplines failed on account of these.
Quotas, always the cancerous tumors of many sectors.
They used boron control rods with graphite displacers, duh.
Because Soviet Union is just copy-paste machine with weak managment. So if you have weak management/science – why do you need to do massive calculations? No calculations – no request from management/science system – no computers.
Mathematics are one of thing that made my nights sweeter peaceful and relaxed. Because mathematics can be trusted once you understand theorems and mathematical results they remain true F.O.R.E.V.E.R. They will never betray you, they gave you an understanding that will not be denied or changed. Little things in this world are.
So when you said differential equations still give you nightmare i think you are insane. Remember that times destroys everything except mathematics ! Mathematics is superior to time itself.
Now make a video "why did the American computer failed?" I still remember "The Gateway 2000" R.I.P.
2:48 Dude made a very valueable invention and got a medal instead of getting filthy rich. Thatยดs why communism failed. If you have a great idea and the best you can hope for is a medal and the worst thing is to die either by execution or in a gulag for thinking to much, then why even bother?
The world's first programmable electronic computer was the Colossus, built during WW2 by the British Post Office. After the war its secrets were leaked by some Polish spies, which enabled the Soviets to build a similar machine with the help of stolen components from British manufacturers. The Soviets then rebuilt it using transistors. They never progressed with the technology but used it to spy on the British intelligence centre at Eastcote, near London, which was transferred to Cheltenham., now GCHQ. An infamous spy ring penetrated the GCHQ outstation at Goonhilly in Cornwall which was the main telecoms link to the USA.
State is the problem
fun fact: all russians are gay orcs
How do you bootstrap chip manufacturing?
9:55 At least they had flat screens ๐
Soviet computers didnt fail they worked
Noteworthy is that citizens hungry for personal computers had to resort to buying clones of Western home computers of the early 1980s like the ZX Spectrum
Ternary would have won
Very Long Instruction Word (VLIW) architectures, which are designed to execute multiple independent operations in a single, very long instruction were the Soviet legacy and the single instruction set of the West were not popular with them… The Soviets prefer beefy robust processors that generate less heat and with reduced frequency operation and less susceptible to EMS radiation, one soviet processor running at 2 GHz could do the job faster than one of the west at 5 GHZ, most Soviet designs were for the defense department and not for consumer products….!
In Russia, you are computer.
You seem to keep calling it "Czechlosovakia" for some reason ๐
10:19 old computers just look cool
The short answer – because of communism
Wait, so, Russian computers failed because they were put in a laundromat?
This is what happens when the government controls everything. These countries will never figure out why they're always behind.
Because the west was actively ruining it ofc
You can ask a horse to build you a computer and whip it until it gives you something, but it will be shit.
… and in the late โ90s and early 2000s, the U.S. showed it hadnโt learned from that lesson as we began to outsource semiconductor R&D en masse.
I think blaming this on centralised planning is a bad takeaway from this, particularly given china's modern success.
I did not get it, why Ussr needed system 360 software compatibility.
because barbaric thieves, communists destiny is to fail
The Elon weed image at @ 13:05 ๐
Not enough washing machines to take the chips out of ?
16:25 he was admiring the view from out the windows while enjoying a cup of tea?
In short: in the usa, companies got the money if they offered a better deal.
In a communust system, prefering one over the other is unfair. No competition allowed.
In the udssr, a communist dictatorship, you were either with the leader, or against.
And if the leader chose wrong, tough luck.
"Why use computers when human brains are cheaper?" – Communist nations
"Why pay workers when we can make computers cheaper?" – Capitalist nations
"Why choose one when you can use both And get more out of it?" – Europe
– No competition, aka monopolies, means no innovation.
– Top down strict authority leadership (even if only to redistribute weath equally) means playing favourits to stay in power, aka monopolies.
– the state having all resources (even if only to distribute equally) means theres only one trye customer.
Aka monopolies.
In short, monopolies destroy innovation.
I dont understand. Which one is hacking and which one is lagging