I don't know much but I watched a lot of Bald and Bankrupt's Russian travels on YouTube and the lay people he would talk to he would question that there is this nostalgia about the Soviet Union and how can that be with all the atrocities that were committed. It seems that as far as the general populace is concerned is that for all the bad there was stability, there was uniting cause amongst the people (good or bad) and that they were respected on the world stage while they have been largely the opposite of all that since
I don't know much but I watched a lot of Bald and Bankrupt's Russian travels on YouTube and the lay people he would talk to he would question that there is this nostalgia about the Soviet Union and how can that be with all the atrocities that were committed. It seems that as far as the general populace is concerned is that for all the bad there was stability, there was uniting cause amongst the people (good or bad) and that they were respected on the world stage while they have been largely the opposite of all that since
I respect Russia a heck of a lot more than i respected the USSR!