Ask the people of Latvia, Poland, E Germany, ... if they want it back.
Even Russians don’t want that misery back, but that doesn’t mean say don’t say stupid shit like “it was our golden age stolen”. Those who know what it was like also know that a wizard won’t actually magic them back to this shithole, so it is just whining without consuquences.
Then there is also the popularity of stabbed in the back myths. Last notable example was Germans getting Hitler, because they ended up believing the lie that they had really won the WW1 until at the last minute a shadowy organization made German surrender for no reason.
Dangerous myth!