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I'm not sure this is meaningful. A lot of people yearn back for the days of Maggie Thatcher and Ronald Raygun as well.
It's pretty significant when you look at what happened to things like quality of life and life expectancy in the vast majority of former USSR republics. For example, mortality among Russian men rose by 60% since 1991, four to five times higher than in Europe. Guess what happened in the 90s to cause this.
There’re different reasons you can yearn for something tho. What you seek in yearning for it. A stable job for example (and an educational path that guarantees employability). Universally accessible housing. Targeted addressing of local problems, like quick relief efforts after a disaster etc...
As for freedom of the press, you only have one now if you colour within the lines. Just ask Julian Assange.
You have to remember the Soviet parliament was democratically elected by the people and popular after the dissolution too. It had to be literally firebombed out of existence by a U.S puppet.
^This. Nostalgia often fools people.
Yeah, nostalgia for things like guaranteed food, housing, healthcare, and education. Nostalgia for never having to worry about losing your job and ending up on the street, or not being able to retire in dignity. Old people are especially nostalgic for the times when they didn't have to live under the bridges and scavenge for food in the garbage.
And yet there's nostalgia for Maggie and Ronnie.
Nostalgia's a fucked-up thing.
You get that quality of life dropped for vast majority of people after USSR collapsed. People's living conditions objectively became worse in practically every way.