If I recall correctly, computers were regarded there for a portion of the 1950s as "bourgeois pseudo-science" at about the same time that Lysenko was setting Soviet biological science back by about a generation. From the looks of this (Photoshop was not yet a commercial product, but I was using the greyscale "ImageStudio" at work back then), the Rooskies had still to make up the lost ground late in the Soviet era.

http://blogs.adobe.c...to-shops-you.html

cordially,