They threw off the shackles of brutal feudalist oppression and life expectancy skyrocketed, infant mortality plummeted, industrialization and socialization caused their economy to grow at historically unprecedented levels, they produced tanks that defeated the Third Reich at a rate that astounded Hitler (we know this because the only recording we have of Hitler outside of public speeches was surreptitiously recorded in a meeting wherein he expressed this astonishment to his aides), they had the first satellite in space, the first telemetry to and from space, the first animal in space, the first man in space, the first woman in space, the first human to complete an orbit of the Earth, and the first space station.
I could go on. The USSR was really cool.
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