Which is why you should support China, as a recent Harvard Kennedy School survey found that over 93% of the Chinese people are satisfied with their central government.
https://ash.harvard.edu/files/ash/files/final_policy_brief_7.6.2020.pdf See page 3
Facts don’t care about your feelings
This is 29 years after the final end of the Soviet Union, during which time there has been no mainstream communist propaganda or viewpoints and constant anti-Soviet anti-communist propaganda. And still 51% of people aren’t believing the BS and know they had or could have had better lives during the Soviet era.
i still think the difference of opinion between russians and other former soviet states is significant
The Brezhnev thing is not true though, the party was very meticulous about having the leaders of the SSRs belong to the dominant ethnicity of the SSR in question. What you might mean is that the 2nd secretary of an SSR was usually Russian and oftentimes sent over directly from Moscow. The Soviet Union was an incredibly multicultural nation in terms of its ruling circle make-up right up to the dismantling. Which does speak to a good popular representation among the delegates. The discrepancy in the levels of Soviet nostalgia has mostly to do with a post-Soviet revision of history and nationalist propaganda that ascribes all the “good” aka imperial attributes of the USSR to Russian national superiority and all the “bad” aka “the darn communist bureaucracy” to Communists and “internationalist degeneracy”.
To put things in perspective a good chunk of those 51% are ethnic Russians who’d rather enjoy the cultural/linguistic status the would have had in the USSR as opposed to the marginalisation they feel now. Very little to do with communism.
