Originally Posted by qwe

I was a teenager when ussr still existed, in what it is Ukraine now...

Looking back it was a pretty amazing time:
-School free, Healthcare free, Universities free
-my grandpa (and everyone) working on big plant got free 3 bedroom condos, was also given a lot beside the river for dacha (vocation) where I was chilling whole summer as a kid
-city was beautiful, no garbage or anything like that
-food was all fresh and organic (no genetic bs like now)
-everyone had work, after school people already had guaranteed jobs
-every year vocation on black sea with whole family
-VERY low crime, could walk at night with no worries

I think they had that system ALMOST perfect, it just needed a little bit of tweaking, some downsides were:
-even though everyone had work, moving up and getting paid more were almost impossible (but I guess that's the reason everything was distributed evenly for everyone)
-limited amount of products, cloths that you could buy, stores had almost no variety of stuff
-couldn't really travel around the world, couldn't speak against government

then ussr collapsed, and everything went to shit... stealing, people kill each other, plants shutting down, corruption, huge gap between poor people and oligarchs, so I had to leave the country...