The people of Russia tend to have the perspective that the years of the USSR were years of rapid economic and social change, with industrialisation taking place quickly that Russia soon found itself to be a giant on the world stage. Not only that, but "Life for many ordinary Russians improved after 1917. They had city housing schemes, universal health care, pensions and sickness benefits. From 1934 onwards, it was compulsory for children to receive eleven years of education. Illiteracy declined from about 50% in 1924 to 19% in 1939. The USSR was also largely free from the unemployment suffered in other countries during the 1930s depression."^[1] Not only that, but in 2013 a poll was conducted on whether or not the people of the former Soviet states felt that the breakup was good or bad; lo and behold, the results came back to find that the people felt the breakup was more harmful than beneficial, which is a testament to the fondness people have for the USSR's activity.^[2][3][4] This is potentially owing to the fact that, when the USSR fell, oligarchs were able to soak up the pre-centralised industries at once, as the industries providing 70% of Russia's GDP were privatised;^[5] alongside this, inflation ran up by more than 300% under Yeltsin's privatisation schemes and many factories were forced into closure due to lacking governmental support and widespread industrial instability.^[6]
I should say that I aim solely for objectivity to the furthest possible extent in providing information, and I am not laying claim to support one ideology, government, or 'side' (so to speak) over the other.
EDIT: Added some information and the last source, which I'd forgotten, and removed a couple of sentences.
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