Why the Soviet Computer Failed

Soviet general believed that 'reliable electronic general computers in the the near future were impossible.'

Sounds as though somehow their intelligence was relying too much on the limitations of Zuse's Z4, and oblivious to ENIAC and Univac1.

Reminds me of the (ex-military) school superintendant who told me in the early 80s that he'd been to a conference in Arizona where the experts told him that the world wouldn't be needing many programmers in the future.

Started watching this the other night and gave up after a few minutes. It's yet another so-called YouTube documentary that consists of nothing more than the summary of a Wikipedia article overlaid on a poor quality slide-show of publicly available photos. Often poorly compressed and a hodge-podge of different aspect ratios.

If you're interested in this subject, do yourself a favour and find a 'proper' article to read.