How many Soviet republics were there?

Little elephant, you simply don't understand what you're talking about. Look into what communism did in China, how many millions of people died there (and not just in the USSR). Would you ask those peasants if they want to join collective farms, if they want everything taken away from them and replaced with labor days, if they want that?

Since the topic is specifically the USSR, let me not think about China. And what has communism done there, if not a single country has yet managed to build it? If you are so well-versed in political economy, why do you confuse socialism with communism? Or did you not live in the USSR? But I did, and that's why I have a clear idea of what kind of system I lived under. Under socialism, I emphasize.
Tell me, is the best way to cure dandruff to chop off your head? If a collective farm is bad, then let's destroy it... and that's it? What about the people? Where will the people go? This is what is called "we will destroy the whole world of violence to its foundations, and then..." And what then?

If the USSR and communism existed now, you would be a completely different person; they probably wouldn't even let you near the internet, just like everyone else. The internet is information, and communists claim that they have the best life. Books, music, magazines, TV... You have already formed as a personality, and you simply cannot imagine how drastically you would be different if you were deprived of all this.

However, the USA allows its citizens to access the internet, and yet they also impose "their truth" and instill the idea that "they have the best life." You need to put on rose-colored glasses from childhood, so that no "enemy voices" can dissuade true patriots. You see, a state of the level of the USA or the USSR cannot live by the same principles as Switzerland. A powerful, mind-numbing ideology is needed: "We are better than everyone else!", otherwise it is simply impossible to keep such a "giant" afloat.