Ask minority groups, those who lived in countrysides, and those who lived in the 50s and 50s and the experience would've been very different.
I get Mulan grew up in a post-soviet Ukraine, and communism is seen as the boogeyman. In some ways this idea is right: there were real generational trauma from the famine, the purges, and the KGB during the height of the soviet union. And corruption was a huge issue (and still is in both Russia and Ukraine). But in many other ways there were some real utopian aspects of USSR especially in its later days. Hell I would give up most of the luxuries and goods in stores to have free housing and education.
This is exactly what I said. You dont understand anything.
>those who lived in countrysides
Had much more than they have now. Post soviet capitalism pretty much killed countryside.
>those who lived in the 50s
Minus postwar hardships, had better prospects than any other generation. Its literally golden times, were bureaucracy was actually under thumb, people self governed and prices correlated with production level, making things cheaper every year. Kruschev ended it by setting party as only ruling organ, hurting agrarian sector and turning bureaucracy into untouchable class.
>generational trauma from the famine
LoL, that "ukraine privatized famine" had struck whole ussr and even poland (not sovietized at that time)
>the purges
They are called so because they hit mostly the Party, the NKVD and Army. And looking at what had Party become after 40years without purges - they were completely justified.
>the KGB
Oh yeah, that almighty KGB lurking at every corner. Arrests for jokes told in smoke room.
>corruption was a huge issue
That's simply not how centralized economy works. Corruption requires ability to spend cash indiscriminately. The highest form of corruption in ussr was ability to "get" things that was considered rarity. Like DDR furniture, or expensive real fur coat, etc.
