If you are interested in USSR and exploring the now independent countries, I highly recommend a YouTube channel called "bald and bankrupt" [0]. It's essentially a travel vlog but the guy visits places that you would probably never visit yourself.
One interesting take away is that many people he asked say they lived much better under the Soviet rule than they're living now. I guess it's not that surprising given that for some countries it will take more than fifty years to catch up where they were before the collapse [1].
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One interesting take away is that many people he asked say they lived much better under the Soviet rule than they're living now. I guess it's not that surprising given that for some countries it will take more than fifty years to catch up where they were before the collapse [1].
[0] https://www.youtube.com/c/baldandbankrupt/videos (scroll down a little bit for USSR videos)
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Union#Dissolution_and_a...