You never had any friends from Hungary or Czesh Republic, you’ve never been there.
I have been to the Czechia, actually. I spent a week in Prague in the early 2000s.
The USSR was total trash. Abject poverty, […]
- https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP85M00363R000601440024-5.pdf
American and Soviet citizens eat about the same amount of food each day but the Soviet diet may be more nutritious. - https://www.economist.com/europe/2018/06/30/russia-will-raise-pension-ages-that-date-back-to-stalin
When the Soviet Union started paying pensions in the early years of Josef Stalin’s rule, the retirement age was set at 60 for men and 55 for women. It has not been raised since.
[…] genocidal extermination of the cultrue and language of occupied nations
If the USSR exterminated the cultures and languages of “occupied” nations, then why are those cultures still speaking Armenian, Azerbaijani, Belarusian, Estonian, Georgian, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Latvian, Lithuanian, Moldavian, Tajik, Turkmen, Ukrainian, and Uzbek?
You’ve likely never met anyone who lived in the USSR.
I have known some, and I know a few right here on Lemmy.