Īccording to the Levada Center poll (November 2016), the people mainly miss the Soviet Union because of the destruction of the joint economic system of its 15 republics (53%) people lost the feeling of belonging to a great power (43%) mutual distrust and cruelty have increased (31%) the feeling that you are at home in any part of the USSR was lost (30%) and connection with friends, relatives lost (28%). But nostalgia for communism has become a common language through which ordinary men and women express disappointment with the shortcomings of parliamentary democracy and neoliberal capitalism today. Nobody wants to revive 20th century totalitarianism. Only by examining how the quotidian aspects of daily life were affected by great social, political and economic changes can we make sense of the desire for this collectively imagined, more egalitarian past. Īccording to Kristen Ghodsee, a researcher on post-communist Eastern Europe: The sense of belonging to a great superpower was a secondary reason for the nostalgia many felt humiliated and betrayed by their experiences throughout the 1990s and blamed the upheaval on advisors from Western powers, especially as NATO moved closer into Russia's sphere of influence. Policies associated with privatization allowed much of the country's economy to fall in the hands of a newly established business oligarchy. Neoliberal economic reforms after the fall of the USSR and the Eastern Bloc resulted in harsh living standards for the general population. Reasons Īccording to polls, what is missed most about the former Soviet Union was its shared economic system, which provided financial stability. A poll conducted in 2020 found that 75% of Russians believe the Soviet era was "the greatest time" in the country's history. Ī poll conducted in 2019 found that 59% of Russians believe the Soviet government "took care of ordinary people".
A 2012 survey commissioned by the Carnegie Endowment found 38% of Armenians concurring that their country "will always have need of a leader like Stalin". In Kyrgyzstan, 16% of respondents said the collapse of the USSR did good, while 61% said it did harm. In Armenia, 12% of respondents said the USSR collapse did good, while 66% said it did harm. A 2018 poll showed that 66% of Russians regretted the fall of the Soviet Union, setting a 15-year record, and the majority of these regretting opinions came from people older than 55. Ever since the fall of the USSR and the Eastern Bloc, annual polling by the Levada Center has shown that over 50 percent of Russia's population lamented its collapse, with the only exception to this being in the year 2012 when support for the Soviet Union dipped below 50 percent.
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