[brabel]

> who saw their quality of life improve after it happened.

The end of the USSR is widely considered a humanitarian catastrophe because after the economy colapsed, people had no food, no medicines, no order, it was a wild west for several years (my wife was there, she tells me all about it)... where the hell did you "learn" that people's lives improved after the USSR fell??

[watwut]

It really depends where exactly you were. And quite a lot of people did in fact seen their lives being improved in the long term.