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Are you familiar with how statistics work? Throw the US population into this sample size calculator. 421 is enough for around 95% confidence. Kinda like how doubling every number starting from 1 rapidly grows beyond expectation after only a couple dozen iterations, sample sizes do not need to be anywhere close to the population size to accurately predict within a 5% degree of confidence.
As for the Soviet Union, it doesn't really matter what you have to say about it. Regardless of your own, individual experiences, the collective experiences of the soviet peoples speak the opposite. The overwhelming majority of post-soviet citizens regret the fall of socialism, and in countries like Russia, more people support socialism than capitalism.
What I'm trying to say is that ultimately, it's the people that make history, and the people of Russia understand the need for socialism. It won't be the Soviet Union, that time is over. But it will be similar in many ways, and that's a great thing.
So you agree with them, that life under socialism was materially better than life under capitalism ๐
Neither we nor the Soviets/ex-Soviets ever claimed that socialism or communism was or ever will be utopian, only that they are better than capitalism.
Regarding the stats on the rise of communist sympathies among younger people, again, this is from a right-wing institute that specifically does not want people to identify as communist. It's McCarthyism.
As for calling the Soviet Union a "utopia," I never did. I simply stated facts about the Soviet Union. For example, life expectancy:
All of what I said can be rather easily verified. Is it a "complete" picture? No. I explained why I support the Soviet Union, and those were some of the many reasons.