So tue world was awesome when the soviets had all these satellite countries as human shields around them, many of them not willing participants in the matter.
If it was so awesome that must have been why the barb wire on all the fences surrounding them faced inward.
Now that more of them are free from sovietski oligarchy that replaced “official” socialists, and joined nato, somehow the world is worse off.
Both systems are far from perfect. One however you could join or leave voluntarily.
Seeing how military age men can’t leave the Ukraine, I’m imagining You are referring to Ukraine.