Russian Ussr
Russian Ussr
What's Russian public opinion on the USSR?
Sorta-freedom has to be nice, but you gotta miss ten years on your life expectancy and being a superpower
It’s more informative to rely on some sociological data than to pointlessly generalise and discuss the issue within a close but friendly group of Yahoo answers contributors. 
I recommend you VCIOM web site (Russian public opinion research centre/the link below) where they have the results of many sociological polls including the data related to your topic. I put below one more link (in Russian) for the sociological poll conducted by some Russian job site with results to the question “Do you regret the breakdown of the USSR?” In my subjective view the results look close to what I witness in my everyday life: 45% do regret; 40% don’t regret; 15% had difficulties with answering the question.
So, the Russian society is divided over the issue almost in two equal halves. People who commented on their "yes" choice mentioned the very reasons you have: life expectancy, social security, general "fairness" of the social and economic life, pride in their country etc.
By the way, there is a very interesting topic of different perceptions of the USSR in the “West” and in the Russian collective memory. In the West the general public doesn’t divide the history of the USSR in periods and doesn’t see differences between “Stalin’s USSR”, “Khrushchev’s USSR” and “Brezhnev’s USSR”. Usually Stalin’s atrocities and realities of the Stalin’s USSR are projected over the whole Soviet history. It’s a long issue to talk about but all those “USSRs” had very different social and economic realities behind seemingly the same facade of the communist rhetoric. That is why when we talk about the USSR in Russia we mean something different from what the public means in the “West”.
P.S. I lived in Britain for some time and I have to admit I felt myself that kind of nostalgic pangs many times. It might sound weird but I find a lot in common between the British social (sure, not political) policies and the ones of the USSR during its late period.
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