The problem with USSR’s economy wasn’t cybernetics/computerization.

No amount of automation or computerization could save the Soviet economy from its critical defects. Khrushchev defaulted the state mandatory bonds set up under Stalin in 1957 has done more to stifle the progress of Soviet economy (I’m not even saying this was a primary driver, but merely one of the many that Khrushchev dismantled). The liquidation of artels (collectively owned enterprises) in 1960 destroyed the domestic light industry base, because Khrushchev wanted to use “state planning” to compete with Western consumerism, which was yet another crucial mistake (there is a reason why China moved away from central planning for its light industries, for the same reason).

I am a minority here but I’ve always said that the problem with the USSR was always financial in nature, more precisely, the continued adoption of liberal economics to solve problems within a socialist state/system.

Why is it that no country in the history of humanity has ever matched the economic growth under Stalin’s Five-Year Plans? Not even China came close to that, considering how much they lowered their labor wages/working conditions and took advantage of huge foreign capital investment to propel their economy. Stalin’s USSR didn’t have much of that (the post-war Soviet workers enjoyed much the same working rights as Western European workers). I claim that’s because Stalin understood the role of money and debt - Stalin understood finance better than any other world leader at the time (most were still stuck on gold standard). And yes I am digging up old Soviet materials wherever I can find to examine and prove this thesis. One day, I will prove it.