It’s telling that people focus on places like Lithuania or Estonia where the west poured capital to create a bulwark against Russia. Why don’t you take a look at what life is like in places like Georgia or Kazakhstan instead.
but to make this point you considered former soviet republics other than russia, and the consequences/reasons as to why life became worse/better besides the regime change, which is exactly what my suggestion for the article was in the initial comment :)
Quality of life went down in vast majority of former soviet republics, and we know that the reason for that largely lies in privatization. USSR managed to provide a decent quality of life for its citizens without relying on exploitation or subjugation of other countries. So, your original comparison with capitalism does not hold.
It’s telling that people focus on places like Lithuania or Estonia where the west poured capital to create a bulwark against Russia. Why don’t you take a look at what life is like in places like Georgia or Kazakhstan instead.
Or Yugoslavia
Have a friend from there, he has quite a bit to say about that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sU9FmlQbn4
For anyone interested.
but to make this point you considered former soviet republics other than russia, and the consequences/reasons as to why life became worse/better besides the regime change, which is exactly what my suggestion for the article was in the initial comment :)
Quality of life went down in vast majority of former soviet republics, and we know that the reason for that largely lies in privatization. USSR managed to provide a decent quality of life for its citizens without relying on exploitation or subjugation of other countries. So, your original comparison with capitalism does not hold.