Which Russia was better?

[HisGrace]

I'm not even sure what the argument would be for contemporary Russia being worse? That attacking one small country is worse than dominating half of Europe? That Putin periodically having a political dissident thrown off the top of a parking garage is worse than millions of political dissidents in slave labor camps? The USSR was basically just all the bad things about Putin's Russia on steroids.

[HisGrace]

We are really off topic. To what extent Nazi Germany wanted power on an international level compared to the Soviet Union has literally nothing to do with the question in the OP.

I am getting the feeling that people are voting for the USSR here just to spite you even though that debate has nothing to do with the Soviets vs Putin.