*does maths*...
2023-38 = 1985
Soviet Union was illegally dissolved - 1992
1992 - 1985 = 7
Someone who is 38 now, was SEVEN y/o when MAJOR changes rocked the world
It is WELL KNOWN now that the nations that were under the influence of the former Soviet Union for 50+ years, all fell into a decades long "reorganizing", with massive economic hardship hitting the most vulnerable, due to the buy-out of much of those nation's resources by western capital, after the union was dissolved.
I am not saying the USSR was perfect, nor that "communism" is an "easy going", and I certainly won't deny the lived experiences of the People in said nations, as the "End" crept ever closer.
I will, however, point out 2 things: A 7 y/o's view on the negative things that are happening to them will most certainly stick with them throughout their life... then, it is no mystery that, for close to 100 years, the western world, at the behest of US capital, was HELL BENT on ensuring that ANY AND ALL socialistic projects failed, and that after WWII, western capital was able to ENCIRCLE the USSR and squeeze it tight.
With those words, I now offer the idea that maybe, just maybe, what you remember was not THE FULL TRUTH. As well, I can attest that this BRUTAL REGIME which I have been trapped in my entire life, the one know as the "USA", had me thoroughly fooled until about a mere 2 years ago.
Consider that the western propaganda machine has affected even the Peoples of the former USSR.
I say all this, as I am just SO VERY SICK of seeing so many people simply discount the idea that a better world is possible solely because "communism failed" or "they did bad, too" when it is CRYSTAL CLEAR that under this capital hegemony, Humanity is being driven into a dead end. Enough!