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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.