Selling weapons to people who would use them against you is stupid.

No ... Russia's communist government rejected access to computers and their own version of the internet for fear of dissent ...

If you were working in military research, you got access to western computers. Academics, generally no. Companies, never. Even party members couldn't get access.

So no this is yet another victim of the priorities of communism: priority #1 is preventing dissent. And I hope you do at least understand why that means "no computers, and certainly no networks".