Originally Posted by
Less Hair
The Soviet Union failed. So why do they dream to get it back?
Remembering that mr Putin stated in 2005 that the collapse of USSR was the greatest geopolitical catastrophy of the 20th century gives an idea. It's not that the communism never arrived or that the planned economy caused misery and the eventual collapse of the USSR. Those are irrelevant.
It's the idea that the USSR won the WW2 (not allies, the USSR did it from their point of view), the USSR went to space, the USSR was a feared global power, the USSR had the ultimate hockey team and so forth.
The collapse of the USSR was a relief to all the former soviet countries except for Russia. Putin couldn't care less for communism, but he wants to be remembered next to Stalin as the one who
made Russia great again (Pun intended).
Btw, I am currently watching the game and they really are wearing those CCCP jerseys. And the Russian Army choir sang the national anthem, just like in the "good old days".