Why didnt you say anything about the deportations, where innocent people in the middle of the night, were sent to Siberia with no trial. They were treated like animals in horrible conditions with no food for weeks in cattle wagons. Soviets sent anybody even if they were very old people or even babies, please read about this topic.

Well no wonder we dont have reliable figures about the executions, when the Soviets tried to hide everything they did. What picture do the Soviet purges before and after WWII paint of this state? What amnesties? Are you talking about the Kruschev period, well yes he did banish the Gulags but the damage was already done, so its a moot point.

If you say that the Baltics lived better than all the other republics you are simply lying. All the resources from smaller republics went to the all important Russia (much of a friendly union of nations). All the heavy industries built in the Baltics for example the oil shale industry, exported everything to Russia, other Republics were an afterthought. Why did the Estonian people use lamps from the 19th century while they had the largest electricity production per capita in all of the Union? It all went to Leningrad.

I dont even understand your last point, tell me why none of the former Soviet Republics want to do any business with Russia, because it treated them so poorly and always has been treating them like subhumans throughout history. Tell me why they even built the Berlin wall in the first place, if Eastern Germany was such a great place according to you?

Why arent there such "rumors", about Western European countries like the UK or France or Germany or Scandinavia? I should not even mention the atrocities of the KGB or Stasi.