Oddly the only time I've encountered particularly strong nostalgia for the Soviet era is precisely from people from ex-Warsaw-Pact countries who are old enough

Oddly the only time I've encountered particularly strong nostalgia for the Soviet era is precisely from people from ex-Warsaw-Pact countries who are old enough to remember living under it, though it's much more common in some countries than others. Especially older East Germans and Bulgarians seem quite nostalgic, sometimes to an extent that was pretty surprising to me, and embarrassing to their kids/grandkids who are my age. Much less common among Americans, or among people from those countries too young to remember the pre-1990 era. Many of the older people seem to feel (whether rightly or wrongly) that their standard of living used to be higher under state-socialism than it is now. Older Bulgarians also feel that post-1990 the government has been taken over by gangsters/mafia, and so some have developed nostalgia for the old inefficient bureaucratic government in comparison.