There is a joke popular in communist countries: > Two old men are talking. "Ah, life was so much better during Stalin's rule!". "Are you mad? We barely had any

There is a joke popular in communist countries: > Two old men are talking. "Ah, life was so much better during Stalin's rule!". "Are you mad? We barely had anything to eat, and they were randomly killing people, we lived in constant fear!". "Yes, but we were young...." I feel this is the same - your nostalgia is saying more about you than about the times/the society. I also grew up in a communist country, and I don't feel there's much that we lost by getting rid of them - you could easily choose to live that very same lifestyle now, but (I speculate) you don't because you know deep inside that you and your family would hate it.