It's insane to think that there are still so many soviet boomers who long for or even beg for the return of communism. They, and the younger ignorants who repeat after them. It really is a devious trap - you have the old farts with survivorship bias because they weren't gulag'd (and even some whose friends or relatives were legit think it's a good thing), and then you have the absolute mayhem and dumpster fire that is the current way of life in post-soviet countries proving that what they call "capitalism" that came to replace it has failed. And the only valid criticism the naysayers may have is the deficit of foreign goods and lack of internet, that's pretty much it. On every other aspect, it was indeed way ahead of what we have now. Kinda fucked up and sad, right? When literally the world's most genocidal regime seems more reasonable than whatever clown show is happening at the moment.