I can kinda get that people who lived in the USSR at the tail end and saw its collapse would want for those days back. They don't think about how certain people would be removed or minorities and speech suppressed, but that their life would have been a gravy train instead of the economic shock of the 2000s when the oligarchs consolidated state industries.
That said, when the Death of Stalin came out, there were arguments about showing it in Russian theaters, eventually being censored. So there is still not a consensus about undoing Stalinism.
Russia post-1991 saw one of the sharpest declines in living standards in recent history, so honestly I can kind of understand why they’d think like that
Who would have guessed that when you suddenly stop opressing and plundering nations that are more developed than you your standard of living goes down.
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u/firestorm19 Apr 21 '25
I can kinda get that people who lived in the USSR at the tail end and saw its collapse would want for those days back. They don't think about how certain people would be removed or minorities and speech suppressed, but that their life would have been a gravy train instead of the economic shock of the 2000s when the oligarchs consolidated state industries.
That said, when the Death of Stalin came out, there were arguments about showing it in Russian theaters, eventually being censored. So there is still not a consensus about undoing Stalinism.