There was a time when the father of the bloke whom Putin recently appointed as a new Minister of Defense, Rem Belousov, wrote a treatise occupying 5 (five) thick volumes, about economic history of Russia in the 20th century and beyond. I suspect that no one among bureaucrats in corresponding Ukrainian agencies managed to produce even a single leaflet concerning connections between long-view economy and military strategy.

I find this fact pretty interesting in the sense that Andrei Belousov, likely, got some feeling of the mission incomplete from his father, and so he will try to fulfill the latter’s covenant.

The aforementioned Rem Belousov had been involved in the so-called Kosygin reform in the USSR, so Andrei Belousov’s activity in defense sector should be discussed as a probable attempt of implementation of programs that his father sought to integrate into the Soviet society precisely at the time when history demanded to change or wither in long decline.

Rem Belousov and Kosygin’s team failed, but then again, so did Stafford Beer in his initial experiments with Chilean project Cybersyn under Aliende, because of Pinochet’s mutiny, but mainly due to overall unpreparedness of both the hardware infrastructure and the software architecture.

However, the demise of Cybersyn didn’t mean that big data integration into economies both planned and (relatively) free market was impossible.