I would like 15 days of paid holiday a week.

Me too! I think it's an error :)

The quality of those benefits (if you could even claim them) was rather lacking, though.

Don't forget the long, free vacations to Siberia for saying something bad about the government near your neighbor.

Don't forget about the endemic racism and genocide that has existed in America since it's founding, and still exists to a lesser extent now.

I know this has already been down voted, but I want to point out that this exact dialog was invented by the soviet union to distract from their abysmal human rights records[1]. Moreover, it doesn't even make sense as a deflection given that the Soviet Union had institutional racism at a very high level, ranging from antisemitism [2] to ethnic cleansing[3] to outright genocide[3]. America is certainly guilty of racism, and we should discuss these issues. However, it should not be used as a weapon to defend evil regimes.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_you_are_lynching_Negroes

[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalin_and_antisemitism

[3]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism_in_the_Soviet_Union#Kor...

[4]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor

It still happened in the USA and I don't think the above comment was defending either side. The USA is just as evil and always has been.

Or you can become a homeless, unemployment person and have 365 days of vacation per year. Imagine that.... Err, sorry in Soviet Union you were not allowed to do that, these commies had to ruin the last bastion of human freedom! No worries, in the USA they still have it. I heard plenty of families take up on the opportunity.

You’re not wrong, homelessness was illegal in the Soviet Union and not in the “we will not rest until everyone has a roof over their heads” kind of way, rather more like “you better be staying at your registered address (raspiska) OR ELSE!” That’s one way to solve homelessness.

I think you mean propiska (прописка)

Absurd.

1st. After revolutions and civilic wars in 1922 Soviet union got 4-7 millions homeless childs. How did these children survive? Without education and socialization childs can't even communicate normally. They stole and even killed for money. They represented a virus epidemiological risk. So Soviets resolve the problem very hard to gave roof and education for that childs and in 1924 they got "only" 280 000 homeless childs. Without mass shootings for nothing. It's very fan sometimes imagine what in the heads of the people thinking Stalink kills every second in Soviet country. If so who building cities, working on farms and factories, who was fought and win WWII? Oh.. Try to read less of propaganda.

2nd. Since that childs was illiterate and all time moving searching for food and money nobody can't register them in City Hall. The register process have name "propiska" in mean fixate persone leaving address. Not "raspiska". Raspiska is just mean confirmation document writed and signed by you.

You'll be wondered but today in capitalistic Russia got "propiska" too. As the Spain for example.

But earlier "propiska" in Soviets was used to prevent mass moving people from one region to another. It's true. But you must take this true in context of the time and events. It was really hard times.

No one is saying that the US is perfect, it has a huge number of problems, some of them very severe. But that doesn't detract from how incredibly awful the government of the USSR was for many years, especially under Stalin, and it's an enormous mistake to look back on it with nostalgia as some people who feel like capitalism is a bad system seem to be doing.

Or politically caused famine

Or politically caused sterilization programs. The blame game could take another few rounds.

Oh, you mean the government aided weight loss program.