@Radical_EgoCom "the Soviet Union = Gulags, famines, etc"
Yes it is. Almost each of us have somebody among the relatives repressed in some way by soviet authorities.
If anybody has a sentiment to soviet times because he was young and healthy or the soviet state make him somehow to believe that he lives in a beautiful country (this is an area for psychologists and sociologists), it does not deny the reality that soviet state was a place of terror in some its period and quite an ugliness in the rest of the periods.