Thank you for the links and information guys, seems extremely interesting! Will go through it all later today after I get off from work.
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Fact is, even some decades later, in the cold war, their electronics where a step or two behind the western ones until the late 70s.
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And even after that as a matter of fact, because military applications aside the Eastern Block actually never caught up with the West. Not that they didn't try though: here's an interesting article from an Eastern German magazine for agitators stressing the importance of using and developing microelectronics in the GDR -
http://www.calvin.edu/academic/cas/gpa/waswie1.htm#anchor1012384
S! again guys, and thanks once more for the links etcetera.