Quote Originally Posted by Nerms View Post
If it was so great why did you give it up?
Nobody asked us...
In fact, they did ask, but then ignored us anyway.

Quote Originally Posted by Nerms
Maybe they should consider dropping capitalism elements and go back to a collective arrangment.
The reality had not revealed itself until after several years of 'wild' capitalism. By the time people realized what had happenned, it was already too late. USSR had been disbanded, the state property was quickly sold stolen by the old Comsomol and party leaders and then every republic went its own way. There're still many people who regret that. Surprisingly there are young people among them as well. Even them, who'd been born after 1991.
USSR had its faults and there were many, but it was nothing compared to the nineties. And today, we surprisingly have nearly all these 'faults of the USSR' I mentioned and some new ones which are even worse.