79% of Armenians say the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 was a bad thing for the country.
https://www.panarmenian.net/eng/details/239481/Financially, retired Kazakh policeman Yankovoi is much better off than Tajik pensioner Artykov. All the same, he too remembers the Soviet Union fondly.
“We lost a great country, and I now have to cross state borders if I want to visit a friend elsewhere,” he said.
https://de.reuters.com/article/us-cis/soviet-nostalgia-binds-divergent-cis-states-idINTRE7B713O20111208Three out of four Russians think the Soviet era was the best time in their country’s history, according to a survey published by the independent Levada Center pollster
https://www.levada.ru/2020/03/24/struktura-i-vosproizvodstvo-pamyati-o-sovetskom-baseduze 