So when you're buying an antivirus you're buying paranoia. Russian paranoia is simply much more refined and unimpregnable than American paranoia, much worse persecution, much worse consequences. It's spinal.

There's other stuff, like parachutes and ejection seats, they made much better parachutes for aerospace because they've seen uniquely fucked-up accidents like disgusting, and instead of slapping lasers and computers on everything they're more like old-school American inventors who actually used cheap cheap stuff, ideally stuff nobody wants, oh man there was tons of that in the Soviet Union! Factories producing too little of one thing, too much of the other, like the incentives didn't match up, but hey, if the inventor figures out a way to work with that, I mean of course he can't it was proven impossible BUT IF HE DOES ANYWAY, if he thinks the unthinkable, it may be the last time but it won't be the first.

In addition there was some really high quality stuff the west just refused to talk about and carried out historical and media blackouts against. So just as the Soviet Union didn't talk about the American Lunar Landing, in the west they don't talk about the Soviet Lunar Landing, 1967 I think it was? First they got a rocket to do a hard landing, but all over the nearby solar system, hard landings everywhere, largely because they had bigger rockets, much better rocketry. Then after the hard landings, soft landings, take photos of Venus on the surface (the only ones humanity has), and put this little drone car on the Moon.