[ommunist]

It did. You are nit even 40% close now to the living standard we had in the USSR. Top notch education for everyone, the best public transit almost for free, more than enough cheap energy, and tech even now beyond your imagination. We even had the better Internet, although not for civilians. And man, our robots had really been on the Moon :-)

[anovikov]

Nonsense. I lived in USSR. Subsistence farming was the main source of food - i hardly remember eating anything except bread which would came from the shop, not the family plot. And yes, my parents were Ph.D.s and worked in space program - kind of people that would fly first class would they be in the USA.

We may argue a lot about capitalism vs socialism, but however dire things may end up in the U.S., no American would ever escape on a homemade raft into Cuba.

[ommunist]

You probably lived in some different USSR.