Do explain how thenMy dude, you are at tankie levels of denialism if you think the experience of the average Soviet Citizen is even remotely comparable to the experience of the average “Western” Citizen.

Konstantin Kisin talks about some of his experience growing up in the Soviet Union here, and while his experience isn’t technically representative of the average, for the average Soviet Citizen, you didn’t criticize the party, for fear of ending up like Kisin’s family.