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" ... Back in its Cold War heyday of the 1960s and 1970s, the KGB and its satellite services in Central and Eastern Europe's Communist satrapies were suffering under a decades-long tech-deficit. They tried to get around that by organizing whole divisions of their services to head to the West to steal ideas or the tech itself — anywhere they could, Tokyo, Seoul, Los Angeles, London. The sad fact on the ground in the East bloc was that the industrial infrastructure was so tuckered out and pared back by the enormous corruption engendered by the Soviet era that only a few stolen Western innovations could actually be imitated. They were late on transistors, late on miniaturization, late on everything. They had to improvise. ... "