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Why is it that people living in former Soviet states overwhelmingly wish that the USSR was still around?

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I live in former ussr state, 90% of those people are very old, and as to why ? Nostalgia. They always overlook the bad and only bring up the good.

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Have you considered there are other reasons besides nostalgia? Like the massive life expectancy and qol collapse under capitalism?

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I wonder why they might be nostalgic

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reasons besides nostalgia

Oh yea, like if you are religious you are a threat to the state and therefore you are unfit for basically any leading role, or your property might be confiscated and you might be sent of to Siberia ?

Lines for food namely bread and if the stars aligned meat.

Big amount of corruption ?

Mandatory conscription to the military (and the corruption there too) ?

Iron curtain ?

Free speech and freedom of expression ?

And much more. That my parents had to live trough/knew that happened to others, information on a graph can only tell you so much. I am my self Atheist, although I do believe there might be higher being, so I do not blame others for believing in them, but as a normal human being I hate when religion is pushed to my face. I also believe there needs to be government regulation to big businesses and love some of the things that are in socialism.

massive life expectancy

I don’t know much about life expectancy in the USSR, can you maybe link some sources, articles I would love to read up on it.

qol collapse under capitalism

Not familiar with “qol” can you explain a bit further ? If you mean quality of life, then I feel, at least for my parents it has improved massively.

Edit: Formatting errors.

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In order to have been a worker for at least 5 years in both systems and therefore have an informed opinion of the difference, you’d need to have been at least 25 by the collapse.

Tack 30 years into that and yeah, at youngest the people with the most informed opinion on which system they preferred are going to be old.

And if you think you had a better system that in the past and it got destroyed, feeling nostalgic isn’t weird it’s the most normal emotion possible.

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Well there aren’t any young people from the USSR around today now are there?

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