> This is also changing tho, especially for younger intellectuals.

I live in Kyiv don't know any young people that are into USSR or communism. Some may have left-leaning inclinations, but they imagine it more like Nordic countries, not the Soviet Union. Are you from some eastern city (or country) perhaps?

> Crisis after crisis people look at the CCCP experience with different eyes, and I am not just talking about babushkas.

I'm from last generation that remembers USSR and don't know anyone in my age group that would like to "go back". Maybe we are not a true intellectuals though.