Good luck. The USSR collapsed 30+ years ago and was in decline since 50+ years ago. The odds of that person having actually lived through anything other than shock therapy or revisionism are small.
Well, yours prison of doom still exists and all you do is shit about it. At least ours are gone, but yet we still hear about it non-stop... I mean, it's gone, it's history, get over it, yet it gets brought up over and over, and the one remaining and still working doesn't get nearly as much attention as the Gulag.
The US has a massive racialized prison industrial complex. 25% of the world's prison population. It's The New Jim Crow. And that's all before Guantanamo.
Oh please, you had to shit left and right about Stalin or Lenin or communism in general, for months at a time, to be even sent to prison, let alone the Gulag. Gulag was for political prisoners, not some shmuk with a bottle of vodka shouting that Stalin is a pussy.
On the other hand, if you so much as whispered that you're a US communist during the cold war, you're on the CIA watch list, that's for sure.
Of course, there was no other party, it was a single party system, why would you even have other parties.
That is not true and you know it, I've never heard of anyone just shouting that Stalin is this or that and being arrested for it. As I said, you had to shit on the system for months at a time to be even arrested. I don't know in which USSR you lived, that's not the one I know of.
I like Communism, but stalinist communism isn't a utopia just because it's communism
I do wish people would respect the ideals of communism more however, it's ridiculous to think that letting the people with all the money, land, and resources (i.e capital) should also have all the power