What really is a shame is the waste, a number of industries collapsed simply because of negligence and greed, not just in Russia but throughout the former sovie

What really is a shame is the waste, a number of industries collapsed simply because of negligence and greed, not just in Russia but throughout the former soviet block. Quite a lot of factories were very specialised and one of only a few in the world, instead of building industries locally they were sold to foreign companies (the examples I know of were Indian so it's not just US) where they were promptly shut. They were bought simply so that there wasn't competition. A lot of effort and blood went into building the soviet union and it was very sad to see a lot of that work simply thrown away.