This bold comment is receiving some downvotes, but Tsar Russia, USSR and modern Russia do have a horrible track record. The bloodletting of the Russian revolution was in large part motivated by just how badly the working class was abused, industrialization for them was a hell. Genocides in the baltic states middle of 20th century. Holodomor. All the recent Russian neighbour wars like Chechnya, Georgia, Ukraine. List of examples is long and it's slowly getting lost in the popular history. If you're from Russia or a neighbouring country, it's very likely that you have experienced serious ramifications of its policy or politics.