>>18769722I've met Russian people who were alive back when the USSR was still around. My stepmother's father lived in the USSR for the first 25 years of his life. He hated Soviet bureaucracy and the lack of adequate compensation for skilled workers.
I've read the opinions of many people who lived in the USSR at the time. Things were good for a while in the 1970's, but everything else from the 1930s till the 1960s and during the late 1980s was pure misery.
You believe the USSR was good because you never got to experience it (face it: if you had really been around back when the Soviet Union was still a thing, you'd be at least in your mid 30's by now, older than the oldest groomers on this board).
I know that there is a communist party in Russia, but it bends to the will of Putin and mostly appeals to old people who feel nostalgic about their childhood. In other former socialist countries like what used to be East Germany and Yugoslavia, communism appeals to people who have fond memories of having a stable job and not having to worry about petty democratic processes, which are not necessarily related to Marxist theories on scientific socialism.
Answer me this question if you think you can:
Why has Aleksandr Lukashenko stayed in power for 29 years as president of Belarus even though he is a right-wing authoritarian dictator?
