That's because USSR was designed intentionally so that its end would be a catastrophe. To prevent that end. However, since it was simply unable to exist further even on life support, what happened happened still.

End of USSR being bad doesn't mean USSR being good. It's just a choice between horrible end and horror without end.

I live in Russia and you do not.

[–] Lenins2ndCat@lemmy.world -5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I live in Russia and you do not.

Which area of Russia do you live in and what do the local people over 60 that actually lived in the USSR have to say? I already know of course and could post video interviews of such, but perhaps you could tell the thread what those people say.

Forgive me for assuming but I'm willing to bet you're in your teens or twenties, making you at best 10 years old when it ended, meaning you have little to no actual recollection of what living and working was like. I could be wrong of course.

[–] vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Which area of Russia do you live in

Moscow, I also had relatives in SPb (not anymore), other relatives in Nizhny Novgorod, other relatives in Voronezh, and some in Rostov-on-Don.

and what do the local people over 60 that actually lived in the USSR have to say

Different things for different people.

Educated people in general have to say on politics the same things that I said earlier, but they are very nostalgic over less criminalized popular culture, better technical education and rules being followed. So am I to some extent actually.

Less educated and poorer people would have uncritical approval of whatever they approve now. USSR, because "people had everything and everything was cheap and deficit is a lie", even though they lived to see it and themselves mention it in unconnected conversations, but it's always some enemies behind it, or maybe of Putin and so on.

Can be seen with my aunts in Armenia too, one of them is a pharmacist and sees things adequately, if pessimistically. Another is an accountant and goes into complete denial in any honest conversation about anything political, she just can't bear it as some people can't bear honest conversations about sex.

There may be gradations.

I already know of course and could post video interviews of such

That's not an argument. You can make video interviews with all kinds of people of all kinds of demographics to say what you want. That's what propaganda does since "video" became a thing. Discarded.

but perhaps you could tell the thread what those people say.

Yes, see the above.

Forgive me for assuming but I’m willing to bet you’re in your teens or twenties, making you at best 10 years old when it ended, meaning you have little to no actual recollection of what living and working was like. I could be wrong of course.

No recollection at all, I'm 1996, but since transition from USSR to modern Russia didn't happen in an instance, in various institutions and organizations you can still see in some ways how it was. More in my childhood than now, but still.

Also naturally I have parents and grandparents, and friends' parents and their grandparents, and parents' friends, and so on, you get the idea.

I live in this society and you don't, so I know more than you, which could help you if you weren't in denial.

[–] Lenins2ndCat@lemmy.world -2 points 1 year ago

Educated people in general have to say on politics the same things that I said earlier, but they are very nostalgic over less criminalized popular culture, better technical education and rules being followed. So am I to some extent actually.

In Moscow? You're not being fair. Educated people in the soviet union from Moscow lived extremely well and have very positive views. Engineers, scientists, etc will all say positive things. You know as well as I do that hundreds of video interviews will confirm this. Be fairer, claiming that everyone that supports the ussr among the over 60s is just uneducated is definitely untrue. This particular video series is in Moscow and this lady is exactly what I am talking about.

You can't live in Moscow and say this is untrue. You're being unfair.

No recollection at all, I’m 1996, but since transition from USSR to modern Russia didn’t happen in an instance, in various institutions and organizations you can still see in some ways how it was. More in my childhood than now, but still.

Brought up in shock therapy then.

if you weren’t in denial.

I'm not in denial. I'm asking you to be fairer. The data does not support your position. You know as well as I do that 75% of the country consider the soviet era to be when the country was at its greatest (and that this is easily verifiable from many sources), and you know damn well that 75% of the country aren't all uneducated people. You are not being fair.