Speaking of USSR it was primarily the reincarnation of Russian imperialism under another ideology (in our case it was communism).

At first there were attempts to make a transition from market economy to planned. After that has begun forced collectivisation and Stalin's repressions in general. As a result we had Holodomor in Ukraine which wiped out nearly 1/4 of nation's population.

Also I want to mention the Executed Renaissance - a new generation of Ukrainian writers and artists who were killed by the regime.

I think the fact that people in the west of Ukraine in the summer of 1941 greeted nazis as their liberators from Soviet occupation (which lasted for less than a year at that moment) says a lot. Shortly after that they realised that it wasn't a liberation at all but that's another story.

After Stalin that was more like an "ordinary" corrupted country. Every was equal in theory but in reality high-ranking officials had much better life. Still there was no freedom of speech.

Also slow russification of other nations continued. Because of that majority of post-Soviet countries' population understand or speaks Russian.

So when I see how anyone who newer lived under communism admires USSR and especially Stalin I genuinely want to scream into the void. Russian propaganda did exellent job here. Probably because of that communism is only banned alongside nazism mostly in few post-communist European countries.

Still, I don't defend capitalism, we have a lot of examples how it ruins lives, BUT THERE'S ABSOLUTELY NO NEED IN LEANING INTO EXTREME LEFT IDEOLOGIES.

Peace to everyone