Russia: Why People Want to Go Back to the USSR

Россия: почему люди хотят назад в СССР

Also known as Rossiya: pochemu lyudi khotyat nazad v SSSR

Russia was among those who founded the Soviet Union and among those who dissolved it. But 30 years after the collapse of the empire, many Russians still dream of going back. Nostalgia for the Union in Russia has practically become a state ideology. Many people forget about the shortage, the lack of freedom of speech and trade, but they remember cheap sausages and free apartments. Why won't Russia get out of the clutches of the Soviet Union?