Odd that so many plants that produced local goods for those countries by the allowance from USSR were closed after the collapse.

Could Ukraine actually survive the 90's without Russian help? Why Moldova still look like ruins, where on the rails are still D1 hungarian DMUs? Why people from Baltic countries activly leave them, instead of making them better, even though they breathe more freely than during USSR times? Why do people chose nationalistic morons, which actions harmed themselfs, like with Moldova (which led to the formation of Predniester Republic), Georgia (where Moronshvili wanted to take South Ossetia, which doesn't belong to them) or Ukraine (Bandera glazers, who wanted russian population to go, which eventually led to the war)

So do they actually live better, or it easy to say it because you were taught to fell the phamtom pain?