As someone born in the USSR, this is an oversimplified view instead. You can claim that the USSR had some good science and engineering, and it did, but it wasn’

As someone born in the USSR, this is an oversimplified view instead. You can claim that the USSR had some good science and engineering, and it did, but it wasn’t always to benefit the people and was definitely done by oppressing the people. Remember that the USSR was the country that marched a platoon of soldiers under a mushroom cloud (without telling them of course) to see what would happen to them in the name of science. It’s also the country to displaced a village by rolling in tanks and telling people to move into houses of the people living in the next village over, immediately, and giving no reason. This was done to detonate an underground nuke to see if a natural gas fire could be put out. It’s the country that refused to evacuate Pripyat after the Chernobyl accident because it would have looked bad. The USSR wasn’t some benevolent scientific community bent on bettering lives. Its scientific interests were primarily military-related.