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Oh, also later on turns out likely Yakovlev was literally a paid US agent. That is an important thing.
Also a big fuckup of Khruschev was the Secret speech and destalinization, it basically destroyed the foundational basis of the USSR, and was based often hilariously on anti-Soviet propaganda, that was later found, with the opening of the archives in 97, to be all horseshit. For example, Stalin had no breakdown at the start of the Barbarossa, he was in meetings immediately organizing moving factories to the East.
Destalinization is like if the US literally "all the founding fathers were slave owning, weed smoking rapists and the entire US is based on a lie" and started tearing down statues of them and censoring them from public life. Absolutely retarded move considering Stalin was a massively popular figure globally at the time. ("Uncle Joe!")
On Soviet firms fucking eachother over. The Soviet Union probably would have had fucking INTERNET and CELL PHONES in the 1960s if it wasn't for the competition between soviet departments. The Financial Department in particular fucking HATED computers and computing technology so defunded it whenever they could because they thought it would lead to the statistical department (main computer guys, developed the Soviet internet) overtaking their role.
In a way, the USSR Nomenklatura ran like the old Chinese imperial "merits" system, and what do you think first when you think Imperial China? Scheming backstabbing, sabotaging eunuchs.