Yeah. Under the rule of stalin it was a nightmare but you cant deny the improvements that where made later on.
Especialy under Mikhail Gorbachev. His reforms where very good to the public and states formaly controlled under the USSR. With the 1991 referendum 9 out of 15 republics voted to Keep the USSR.
Then came the August coup, and 50% drop in GDP and economy. In the late soviet era, 1.5% of the russian people where poor. Mid 1993= 39-49%
Corruption sky rocketed, crime rocketed...Russia still hassent recoverd from it, IF it will ever recover from it...
As somebody once said on the Belgian TV=There is a reason why many people wanna go back to the USSR days. There is a reason why the votes for the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF) is rising and rising.
Look i will never justify the crimes done by the communism however. But the so called "World police USA" was...is just as evil.
As a polish man, who was scrubbing for food in nal hutta said=In the soviet era i had a great job in the steel mill, i had a house, i fed my 4 kids, i had a wife..I had a car. Now i must search dustbins for food!