The krauts beat them at national healthcare by around 40 years, and the Soviets had plenty of homegrown disigns, plagiarised clones of Western designs and imported computers. Most people and companies just could not afford them.
Probably had nothing to do with the fact that behind your mask is a hook-nosed less charismatic version of Grima Wormtongue (if he were a grotty little incel goblin)