I wholeheartedly concur. It was the same here in Romania.
Interesting anecdotes:
- my parents (who studied EE) worked in a "research institute". Most of the research was taking electronics from the west apart and figuring out how they worked so that they can be manufactured in the "eastern block"
- my first computer was a HC80 computer which was a ZX Spectrum clone
- many big "western" companies were here trough local partnerships (Citroen -> Oltcit, Renault -> Dacia) just like IBM and Coca-Cola worked with the Nazis. Money trumps ideology always :-)
Yeah quite often they sold a couple of examples that where then ripped off - Rolls Royce found that out the hard way as the the Pilots in Korea shot down by MIG 15's with knockoff Jet engines
Interesting anecdotes:
- my parents (who studied EE) worked in a "research institute". Most of the research was taking electronics from the west apart and figuring out how they worked so that they can be manufactured in the "eastern block"
- my first computer was a HC80 computer which was a ZX Spectrum clone
- many big "western" companies were here trough local partnerships (Citroen -> Oltcit, Renault -> Dacia) just like IBM and Coca-Cola worked with the Nazis. Money trumps ideology always :-)