Debatable whether that was the workers and the extent to which material conditions improved. Certainly, the political conditions were atrocious, and there was t

Debatable whether that was the workers and the extent to which material conditions improved. Certainly, the political conditions were atrocious, and there was the whole Holodomor thing that pro-Soviet narratives like to leave out. Was killing millions an improvement? And then Russia today has very low social trust, which is less surprising when you look at them being a totalitarian dictatorship for so long.