The biggest failure of the Comecon countries is in mastering the technology to put the creations of their laboratories into serial production – the Soviet Union is able to match the US in the space race because all its spacecraft and control systems are in effect one-offs – so no-one will be losing too much […]
The biggest failure of the Comecon countries is in mastering the technology to put the creations of their laboratories into serial production – the Soviet Union is able to match the US in the space race because all its spacecraft and control systems are in effect one-offs – so no-one will be losing too much sleep over the news that Kombinat Carl Zeiss Jena will produce prototype 4M bit memory chips next year.
