Apart from the fact that the USSR hid the disaster to save their ugly face and them being communists hellbent on conquering everything, the Western civilization

Apart from the fact that the USSR hid the disaster to save their ugly face and them being communists hellbent on conquering everything, the Western civilization don't owe them a thing. It's really the other way around - the USSR should compensate Western civilizations who suffered from USSR complete and total inadequacy. But USSR being piss poor and miserable, they hardly have anything of value.