The collapse of the Soviet union saw a massive influx of Jewish Soviet scientists into occupied Palestine that over doubled their number of PhD per capita. Most of them had to immediately enter workforce due to lack of universities in the colony. So basically they got put to work researching big agriculture and weapons of extermination.
If the USSR never fell then the entity would not be the technological RnD powerhouse that it is.
Source. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.248.4959.1070