>>105838595 (OP)you can only make a fair amount of electronics engineers every year, soviet focused on power and radio electronics based on many semiconductors, while the west focused on digital electronics based on silicon. both copied each other advantaged designs where possible
also computers were not that generalized when the urss collapsed, people compared different timeframes weirdly
riga had an advanced radio electronics fab, non silicon based one, GaAs i think, but that was demolished and replaced by a fucking mall. only lately with the needs of 5g we developed a similar enough tech...