"those who don't miss the soviet union have no heart, those who want it back have no brain"

I like this quote. Despite turning into a clusterfuck of repressive bureaucracy later on we have to remember that the USSR was born out of a kind of romantic humanism and a desire to see equality and prosperity for everyone in a time where the average Russian was an illiterate subsistence farmer with no prospect for improvement. Going from toiling in the beet fields to the first man in space in the span of a human lifetime was quite an achievement.

That said there were plenty of horrible things about it and I wouldn't want to see it back, the past should stay in the past.