In North Korea, there is also perfect cleanliness, and people smile.
In Belarus, migration is allowed, and the internet works (the latter is especially relevant now, sob-sob). Honestly, it's hard to find similarities between these two countries, except for the unchanging leader, but there are literally half the countries in the world with this characteristic, and in the remaining half, there are always some idiots in power.
All these conveniences and beauty are the last things that interest you when they want to kill you in the USSR based on your gender or political affiliation.
And as for gender, that's completely different. You can also stretch it a bit to Russia (probably? I had some isolated rumors at work), Ukraine, unfortunately, yes. And where else is there such a problem in the USSR?
I would understand if you were talking about salaries; they are probably not that great...