Yes PRC bad. USSR bad.

Buuut, the USSR did have free housing, free healthcare, free bills, free and quality higher ed, plenty jobs in STEM, while yes, also having horrific repressions inside and imperialist ambition outside too.

The successor state of the Soviet Union is as much a product of soviet corruption as it is a product of IMF’s “shock therapy” that forced rapid privatization in the name of capitalism and cuts to public services in a country that was basically near 100% public services, which led to the well connected cashing in their political capital for all the country’s resources, industry and infrastructure, creating the oligarch class and setting up a government to be inevitably influenced by them, and when capitalists control the government the only result is fascism.