Soviet general believed that 'reliable electronic general computers in the the near future were impossible.'<p>Sounds as though somehow their intelligence was relying too much on the limitations of Zuse's Z4, and oblivious to ENIAC and Univac1.<p>Reminds me of the (ex-military) school superintendant who told me in the early 80s that he'd been to a conference in Arizona where the experts told him that the world wouldn't be needing many programmers in the future.
Started watching this the other night and gave up after a few minutes. It's yet another so-called YouTube documentary that consists of nothing more than the summary of a Wikipedia article overlaid on a poor quality slide-show of publicly available photos. Often poorly compressed and a hodge-podge of different aspect ratios.<p>If you're interested in this subject, do yourself a favour and find a 'proper' article to read.