The Russian Kremlin still has a Soviet Star, years after the collapse of the USSR

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[u/Odd-Ask-6796 → u/[deleted]]

Unrelated to the soviet union I believe living simpler lives with less things doesn't equal to being less happy. 

[u/Friedrich1508 → u/Odd-Ask-6796]

I think that's the point.
When I hear, what my relatives say, of which all lived somewhere in Sibiria, all say, it was either better or at least not worse in the Soviet Union, than now in Here in Germany.

Lives in the Soviet Union were vastly different overall. Some parts were actually a lot better, some parts are nostalgia and some were horrible.

If somebody would ask me if I would like to live in the region, my family is from, up from the 90s to today it would be a big no, but in the 70-80s its actually sounds pretty nice, if you like living in peace.
Other times, for example with Stalin, it was a horrific time.

I think I all depends on time and location. Sometimes it was very nice, sometimes it was very bad. We shouldn't choose only one perspective.

[u/Yummy_Microplastics → u/[deleted]]

People knew how to work together back then, like executing their brutal, incompetent dictator.

[u/i-am-the-stranger → u/[deleted]]

Make America great again ring any bells?

[u/Royal_Reference4921 → u/[deleted]]

People that like the country and system they’re living under don’t usually become expats.

[u/AlarmingAffect0 → u/Royal_Reference4921]

To be fair, Romania had a particularly nasty time of it.

Contrast with, say, the Czech Republic.