My Russian is shit so if you can read this I could use your help. If you're not here for shit-posting, why do you miss the Soviet Union? Do you miss the superpower status, or do you really believe in this communism nonsense? I figured I'd ask actual Russians because...well, why not! If it really is nostalgia for power, then why not yearn for the days of the Tsar?
>>81529 (OP) Because it was first system attempt to achieve better, more fair society. Yeah, there was disadvantages, because of historical and economical reasons (uprising from shitty tsarist Russia, with population 95% of illiterate peasants, in agressive environment, two World Wars, one of which destroys half of country, interventions, Cold War with militarization of economics, instead of creating wealth for people). But it was the best country in human history. Because it doesn't exploit other countries, like every main capitalist countries do, nontheless, it achieves so many! All, we have now, all our industry, infrastructure, medicare, education - its all from Union. Space programs, atomic energy, basic science programms, living space (i mean not only houses, that built in USSR, but cities too, a lot of them!). We all owe to Union with our lives itselves. And, more, it was a real chance to humanity to avoid extinction. Now, it's gone. I realize, that answer to Fermi paradox is simple. They all just haven't survive capitalism, and destroyed themselves in hitech wars, or rampant consumption. I know, that in your culture (also in mine too, nowadays) mainstreamly stigmatize communizm, and bolshevism is almost insult. But it is not. It is the only opportunity to solve most of system crises. Economical, ecological, political, and cultural.
Of course, there is lot of older people, who lived then, and they just nostalgic for they young live, wisout any understanding, what USSR was really.