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It was mostly a logistics decision. They had to supply every single base at the ass end of Siberia. They didn't have supply chains for transistor boards yet. They did have them for vacuum tubes.
Everyone knew where things were going, and future Soviet planes had transistors and ICs. So no, definitely not because of EMP.