[minipci1321]

> Another perk: in communism you did NOT pay any from of income tax as ordinary worker

Income tax was of course collected: https://aif.ru/money/mymoney/kakoy_podohodnyy_nalog_byl_v_ss...

of which workers might have been not fully aware (as it was deduced before wiring/handing-out the cash).

But there was also such a thing as "childlessness" tax on income, and concerned workers were well aware of it.

I feel and sympathize your nostalgia of the past, but it doesn't seem proper to extrapolate your personal experience to the "millions" of other USSR inhabitants. Western republics of the USSR were the proverbial land of milk and honey, out of reach for the vast majority of them.