Some Catholic philosopher, a cultural "deep conservative" but I don't remember who, said that if men and women are free to marry and raise a family, and work productively for the support and well-being of their family, then the socety has the
basics of a humane and decent life, no matter what its form of political governance.
(Assuming, of course, that the economic and political structures have not fatally undermined your ability to work, to benefit from your work, and to marry.)
If one can live in Russia with the liberty to work, marry, beget and raise your kids, it could arguably be a better place to live in than, say, Riverside, CA, where the official unemployment rate is 15% (but the unofficial far higher), where high taxes rob wage-earners of most of their wages, and where their children --- under the guise of health! ---will be instructed in sodomy.
I was just trying to explain to our young girls how
things -- moral matters, in particular -- have incomprehensibly (to them) inverted since I was a kid. A world now where a good American has to question saying the Pledge of Allegiance (OK, still, to have allegiance
to the flag but what else are you assenting to or condoning "for which it stands"?), yet would be comfortable sitting beside Russia's president discussing contemporary moral depravity and Christian orthodoxy. But here, the Secret Service would remove you quickly were you to broach such issues. Not to mention which "lists" your name would permanently inscribe.
Good is condemned while evil is championed and elevated. Growing up in Amerika.