Television? newspapers? radio? billboards?
This is all dependent on your own opinion, however, I believe that electric vehicles and smart devices will last from our society. We can not give up the "easy life" that goes hand-in-hand with everything we do. We prefer an easier way of searching things and doing things, similar to the way you asked this question. Hope that helps!
The short answer is that the Soviet Union is very rich in natural resources as well as their ideologies are polar opposite.