Here are a few:

• A remarkable 72% of Hungarians say that most people in their country are actually worse off today economically than they were under communism. Only 8% say most people in Hungary are better off, and 16% say things are about the same. In no other Central or Eastern European country surveyed did so many believe that economic life is worse now than during the communist era. This is the result of almost universal displeasure with the economy. Fully 94% describe the country’s economy as bad, the highest level of economic discontent in the hard hit region of Central and Eastern Europe. Just 46% of Hungarians approve of their country’s switch from a state-controlled economy to a market economy; 42% disapprove of the move away from communism. The public is even more negative toward Hungary’s integration into Europe; 71% say their country has been weakened by the process.

• The most incredible result was registered in a July 2010 IRES (Romanian Institute for Evaluation and Strategy) poll, according to which 41% of the respondents would have voted for Ceausescu, had he run for the position of president. And 63% of the survey participants said their life was better during communism, while only 23% attested that their life was worse then. Some 68% declared that communism was a good idea, just one that had been poorly applied.

• Glorification of the German Democratic Republic is on the rise two decades after the Berlin Wall fell. Young people and the better off are among those rebuffing criticism of East Germany as an “illegitimate state.” In a new poll, more than half of former eastern Germans defend the GDR.

• A poll shows that as many as 81 per cent of Serbians believe they lived best in the former Yugoslavia -“during the time of socialism”. The survey focused on the respondents’ views on the transition “from socialism to capitalism”, and a clear majority said they trusted social institutions the most during the rule of Yugoslav communist president Josip Broz Tito. The standard of living during Tito’s rule from the Second World War to the 1980s was also assessed as best, whereas the Milosevic decade of the 1990s, and the subsequent decade since the fall of his regime are seen as “more or less the same”. 45 percent said they trusted social institutions most under communism with 23 percent chosing the 2001-2003 period when Zoran Djinđic was prime minister. Only 19 per cent selected present-day institutions.

• 75% of Russians have expressed increasingly positive opinions about the Soviet Union over the years. Only a small portion of those surveyed said they had negative associations with the Soviet Union. The economic deficit, long lines and coupons were named by 4% of respondents each, while the Iron Curtain, economic stagnation and political repressions were named by 1% each, the Levada Center said.

The first russian elections after the fall of the USSR are enlightening (especially since the US had to help Yeltsin to win, and it is widely agreed that he used false votes, as well as, well, buying every piece of media he could and making propaganda as much as he could with the help of the US, even so the result between him and the CCP was near). Check Yugoslavia’s dismemberment too, maybe. The Asian Crisis of 1997. Argentina’s 2001 crisis. Ha-Joon’s book on ‘kicking away the ladder’ for developing countries and on economy make a case for the fact that modern countries used not liberalism but protectionism for their development and then impeded third-world countries to take the same route (with cases such as South Korea, Japan, Singapore, and ofc Communist China actually being able to use a similar route through military dictatorships and in China, the CCP), so you might wanna check that out. As for Cuba, investigate the embargo and why they wouldn’t accept “democratisation”, Fidel talks about what actual democracy is in Cuba here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmWhTKFHET0 and why they do not want the US “democracy”. These are all just pointers haha, but hope the help. You might be referring to this survey: https://thecommunists.org/2019/07/26/news/workers-eastern-europe-former-ussr-prefer-socialism/ tho I remember there was a picture which summed it up, you can always go to the source and make the graph yourself in Word. Good luck!

I have this:

Did the citizens of the Soviet Union dislike their government?

• 66% of Russians polled in 2015 want the USSR back. The story is the same for all the former eastern-bloc countries: 72% of Hungarians say their country is worse off now than under communism, 57% of East Germans, 63% of Romanians, 77% of Czechs, 81% of Serbs (for Yugoslavia), 70% of Ukrainians, 60% of Bulgarians. A twitter thread.
• Bulgaria’s plummeting birth rate after the fall of the soviet bloc.
• Homesick for a Dictatorship
• 60% of Russians Want Communism Back
• Former Soviet Countries See More Harm from Breakup
• Russians say Aug 1991 events are tragedy, not triumph of democracy
• Struggling Romanians Yearn for Communism
• Tajikistan Pines for Old Soviet Union Strength
• Referendum on the Preservation of the USSR
• Central Asia in Nostalgia for the Soviet Period
• Freest Under Czech Communism!
• Seven Myths about the USSR by Stephen Gowans
• An experiment in living socialism: Bulgaria then and now by F.S.
• Growing Up Under Communism Was The Happiest Time Of My Life by Zsuzsanna Clark

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