[simonbarker87]

Wasn’t the lack of homelessness and unemployment because both of those were designated as a crime and so you got sent of to a work camp?

[kofejnik]

More or less so. Plus, you also could not just decide to go to Moscow (or other city), you needed "propiska" (residence permit). And those born in countryside didn't have passports until _1974_ so had no freedom of movement at all.

Seriously, I cannot find polite words for people praising USSR