I guess the OP of this stupid thread and all members agreeing with the thread aren't from any post-communist country.
I would send all of those members admiring the "iconic" USSR to live in a communist country before 1989. Y'all would stand in those "iconic" 4-hour kilometer long queues to bakery/grocery/butchers to buy bread/
some meat /vegetables
every single day. Or I would make y'all a mother wondering what to give her children to eat the next day!
I would totally send y'all to a country under dictatorship of the "iconic" USSR where every try of expressing a free speech would end like this:
(Father Jerzy Popiełuszko - Polish Roman Catholic priest who became associated with the opposition Solidarity trade union in communist Poland. He was murdered in 1984 by three agents of the internal intelligence agency, the Służba Bezpieczeństwa, (English: Security Service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs) who were shortly thereafter tried and convicted of the murder)
(Zbigniew Godlewski, shot dead by security forces during the Polish 1970 protests in the city of Gdynia. Body of Zbyszek Godlewski (memorized as Janek Wiśniewski) was carried by the demonstrators on a door panel)
(The Gulag - Soviet forced labor camp systems during the Stalin era)
Or I would send you to live now in a post-communist country with a ruined economy, with gigantic public debts, where most of the society lives on the verge of poverty and your neighbour cooks alternately each day sour soup & pizza because white borscht & yeast are the cheapest things you can buy to cook dinner.
