[nativeRussian]

You're right.. in addition...I worked in research laboratory.. we made program, technology of extraction Scandium..21-st element of periodic table..all work had been done by Mikhail Klushnikov..Soviet government gave to him "State premium".. but when I looked at newspaper informantion about it...ten persons from Ministry, main institute etc were listed as competitor... Mikhail Klushnikom was last in the end of list
What you want from Putin?
He was communist..it means he was complete scoundrel (bastad) and no more...

[Do not dub me shapka broham]

Reading Vasili Mitrokhin and Christopher Andrew's archives of Soviet documents gives you the impression that the USSR's effectiveness and efficiency at espionage wasn't matched by a commensurate desire on the part of the Soviet leadership to foster the sort of values that spur scientific and technological achievement.

Even after the West began to loosen restrictions on research, and Gorbachev initiated a so-called policy of "glasnost" the gap between the Soviet Union and the West accelerated, because the base of any scientific, intellectual progress had been effectively destroyed by five+ decades of Stalinism.