Yeah, I’m sure Russia and other former territories of the Empire would’ve been so much better off under the restored rule of incompetent, anti-semitic tyrants.

They’d probably be so much better off than under the revolutionaries that gave them free healthcare, education, housing, democracy, that industrialized the country in less than a century, that took them to space, and that was only a few decades away from giving them a quality of life matching that of the developed world.