lol it was a joke!

I mean, "good old" Soviet Union was a prison for all of it's population throughout it's existence, but it was also a prison within a prison for 37% of it's population till as late as 1974. Human existence there could hardly be called a modern life at any point of it.

My apologies then, of course. I have seen bald accusations much like that here that were clearly serious so I'm somewhat sensitive to it.