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Strela computer

Strela computer (Russian: ¿¿¿ ¿¿¿¿¿¿, arrow) was the first mainframe computer manufactured serially in the Soviet Union, beginning in 1953. This first-generation computer had 6200 vacuum tubes and 60,000 semiconductor diodes. The Strela's speed was 2000 operations per second. Its floating-point arithmetics was based on 43-bit words with a signed 35-bit mantissa and a signed 6-bit exponent. Operative Williams tube memory (RAM) was 2048 words.  more from Wikipedia

Soviet Union

The Soviet Union, officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (abbreviated ¿¿¿¿, SSSR), was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991. The Soviet Union was a single-party state ruled by the Communist Party from its foundation until 1990. A union of 15 subnational Soviet republics, the Soviet state was structured under a highly centralized government and economy. The Russian Revolution of 1917 caused the downfall of the Russian Empire.  more from Wikipedia

Politics

Politics (from Greek politikos "of, for, or relating to citizens") as a term is generally applied to the art or science of running governmental or state affairs, including behavior within civil governments, but also applies to institutions, fields, and special interest groups such as the corporate, academic, and religious segments of society. It consists of "social relations involving authority or power" and to the methods and tactics used to formulate and apply policy.  more from Wikipedia