The USSR may have been amazing depending on what things you value in life. As far as I understand, the only thing that was in abundance is stability, which is not the only thing needed for an amazing life, as far as I am concerned.

Also, the image of USSR in pop culture seems to have improved a lot and is now much better than the real thing had ever been, but that's just marketing bullshit

[–] Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

When you actually look at what it was not through the lens of cold war propaganda it does seem like a pretty nice place. Not to say the place was perfect but for what it was they did a really good job with what they had.

EDIT: and Russia just voted to classify homosexuality as "extremism" a perfect example of just how much going capitalist has fucked them up.