The main drawback to life in the USSR there was a shortage of almost all goods great difficulties when travelling abroad and, perhaps, some excesses in the media who keep telling you how rotten capitalism and how the right way to move our country. But at the same time, industry was developing, there was free healthcare and education, stable salaries and pensions.
Now, instead of shortages, the majority of the population there was a shortage of money to buy quality products and get quality services you can afford only wealthy people in the country not more than 10 to 15%%. Overseas, you can travel freely, but in recent years cheap tickets with normal service, buy has become very difficult. As for the media, that true information can only be found on the Internet. The industry is almost destroyed, medicine and education were paid, therefore, qualitatively be treated to learn you can afford a few.
When people were hoping that the change of the regime life will be better, they hardly imagined such a life – increasing prices, taxes, fines, unemployment, and the main thing is that it is hardly possible to expect a change for the better in the near future.
Hard to call a system which exists in Russia now is not capitalism, while not a monarchy, but something in between and it is unclear when and in what direction will swing the system.
