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If you ask tankies they'll just tell you your friends were bourgeoisie and deserved to be put in camps for not being socialist enough...
For nuance's sake - there are still older generation folk that are vehemently pro-russia but they usually don't espouse socialist values but more nationalistic, Russian imperial interests and general anti-progressiveness as a supposed counter to US influence.
From what I've gathered it boils down to yearning for a simpler past when food was local and better, mixed with some nostalgia for their youth, as well as a healthy dose of convenient memory loss of the surveillance state and atrocities of the regime.
My great-granpa was a poor peasant that could barely read and write and so were the other people from our village. He was conscripted into the army, didn't really have a choice.
I also remember talking to an old lady that was 10 year old when she witnessed the Red Army gather all the Germans in her village, make them dig a pit and then shoot them so they fell into the pits as they died.
Everything I Don't Like Is Bourgeoisie
"This engine is bourgeoisie"
XD
interesting, as that's the US's same stance.