> It would have been worse as a peasant under the tsar. Communism brought modernity to Russia and made it a world power.
Big misconception. Russian Empire just before the WWI (1913) was a dynamic growing economy. It was behind Germany and UK but it was in the middle of the pack of European countries. Bolsheviks totally ruined the country. People paid enormous price for the "modernization" that was already underway during the tsar. Bolshevik revolution of 1917 was a single worst calamity that happened to Russia in 20th century, even worse that nazi invasion of 1941.
Big misconception. Russian Empire just before the WWI (1913) was a dynamic growing economy. It was behind Germany and UK but it was in the middle of the pack of European countries. Bolsheviks totally ruined the country. People paid enormous price for the "modernization" that was already underway during the tsar. Bolshevik revolution of 1917 was a single worst calamity that happened to Russia in 20th century, even worse that nazi invasion of 1941.