I don't know much about the outright reporting of life satisfaction in the USSR, but if you look at statistics of before and after the fall of the Soviet Union in terms of things such as life expectancy, infant mortality, alcoholism, drug abuse, homicide, suicide, and domestic violence, and compare that to the opinion polls of Russian citizens today asking how many of them wish for a return of the Soviet Union, I feel this could give an impression. As an example of what I'm talking about, in 1985 the average life expectancy for a Russian was around 67 years old; by the mid-1990s, for Russian men, life expectancy was well below 60. Rates of births per woman fell from 1.9 to 1.4 from 1990 to 1994, and rates of alcoholism, suicide, and homicide doubled.