I'd argue about the "are still fine" part. My country was under soviet occupation. We were so behind that it's beyond scary. A plastic bag with Bruce Willis or Stallone's face printed on it was something out of this word. I'd argue that by the time the whole darn thing collapsed, we were 20-30 years behind the western world.

Is Russia "fine"? They still haven't managed to catch up economically or in development levels to the developed Western countries (and the fact that former Eastern bloc and even Soviet countries have shows that the gap wasn't impossible to overcome). They're also in a war they cannot win losing tens of thousands of men they can ill afford to lose, and only because they're stuck in the past politically and geopolitically.

It distorted Russian society in ways that are still felt today. So no, it wasn't still fine.

80 years ago Russia was defending against an actual invasion of actual Nazis, instead of inventing fake Nazis as a pretense for invading.