>>11372992Russia had a Technology level near zero before the Russian Revolution - and that revolution fucked up the whole country big time. Took them until 1930 to recover somewhat, but authoritarianism kept fucking them up the arse.
Considering their handicap it's clear there's no way they could catch up to the West in EVERY area, and so they focused on heavy industry first.
Consumer products only very slowly became important to them during the 60s to early 90s (their golden age of sorts).
