Reply #51: We were better off when there was a Soviet Union [View All]

The USSR would have never allowed Bush to invade Iraq, and cost the lives of over 2,100 GIs and 100,000 Iraqi civilians, as reported in the Johns Hopkins's Lancet Report.

Russians are far worse today than they were under the Soviets. For the first time since the Tsars, there is poverty and unemployment in Russia. Perhaps this is why the May Day celebrations which were reduced to a few hundred elderly marchers during Yeltsin era, now command tens of thousands of people from all ages.

Russians are longing for the safety and security of the Stalin years, just as we long for the days of Bill Clinton. Neither Stalin nor Clinton were perfect, and we had legitimate issues with them, but they are preferable to what we got now.