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2026-08-28 17:35 UTC
Ignoring the fact that this conversation has been steered towards an explicitly liberal/market economics/consumerist framing…
A 2013 Gallup survey showed that 66% of Armenians thought the dissolution of the USSR was harmful
In a 2016 survey, 69% of Azerbaijanis believed life was better under the USSR.
In a 2016 survey, it increased to 53% of Belarusians saying life was better under the USSR
Another Pew survey, also in 2017, showed that 43% of Georgians thought the dissolution was a good thing, compared to 42% who thought it was a bad thing.
In a 2016 survey, around 60% of Kazakhs above the age of 35 believed life was better under the USSR.
A 2013 Gallup survey showed that 61% of Kyrgyz thought the dissolution of the USSR was harmful, compared to 16% who thought it was beneficial.
A 2013 Gallup survey showed that 42% of Moldovans thought the dissolution of the USSR was harmful, compared to 26% who thought it was beneficial.[7] Regret about dissolution later increased to 70% according to a 2017 Pew survey, with only 18% saying the dissolution was a good thing.
Levada polling since the mid-1990s on the preferred political and economic system of Russians also shows nostalgia for the Soviet Union, with the most recent polling in 2021 showing 49% preferring the Soviet political system, compared to 18% preferring the current system, and 16% preferring Western democracy, as well as 62% saying they preferred a system of economic planning compared to 24% preferring a market capitalist economy.
en.wikipedia.org/…/Nostalgia_for_the_Soviet_Union
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Some one points out their lived experience of lack of food and most basic supplies.
explicitly liberal/market economics/consumerist framing
[well akshuly’s into capitalist statistical data]
Wonder why people like you have such a hard time gaining any popular support. Must by CIA.
You do know, that two things can be bad at the same time? The fact that someone criticizes something they experienced, does not necessarily indicate support of another system. I’ve committed my life to anti-capitalist struggle. Only as opposed to you there’s no misinformed nationalist nostalgia in my family.
Also find me any people over 40 who are not nostalgic about the times of their youth. Human minds have this key mechanism of mostly pushing out bad experiences, so we can go on living. When that stops working one ends up with a heavy depression.
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And that is even ignoring various other economic indicators that showed worsened living conditions after the fall.
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Asking people, sadly, is not the reality check it should be. Trump was voted after all.
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