> ask anyone over the age of 50 if they would want to live under the Soviets again and it would be an overwhelming 'No.' Do you know any such people? I do know

> ask anyone over the age of 50 if they would want to live under the Soviets again and it would be an overwhelming 'No.' Do you know any such people? I do know a few of them. Not a statistically valid sample, since I don't research such things professionally. But I happen to have a few in my social group, through family and friend connections. And what's most surprising about them is how strongly pro-Soviet they are. The young people are not; they are mostly pro-West. But the older people are much different, much more nostalgic for Soviet times, and anti-West. Especially those who served in the scientific-industrial-military complex, which is many. Congregations of elderly scientists and engineers tend towards a pro-Soviet tone, especially in the form of complaining about how these useless new countries don't do science the way the old USSR did.