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I dont know how your life is, but my own impression is that life of many americans is worse than the life which was in the Soviet Union at least until the 80s (after Stalin). Maybe not in the sense of the capacity to buy junkfood and other junk, but as to sense of living and human relations. "Mollusk" sounds as the usual american antirussian propaganda.

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Unless you are limiting your comparison to just the homeless in America, this is just not true. Most people don't know much about life in the Soviet Union in the first place, but even what people do know is typically limited only to life in Moscow and Leningrad. Dismissing the conditions as "capacity to buy junkfood" is uncalled for.

"Most people do not know much about the life in Soviet Union"

Well, I was born there, and I think that limiting the comparison to your homeless people is maybe comforting for an american, but is a distorted view.

I don't know where in the Soviet Union you were born. But, the stories I've heard of life outside the cities are completely unrecognizable to the modern American experience outside of the most extreme rural and isolated environments available.

Have to compare extremes in that case. Probably everyone in the gulag had a worse life than every American complaining.

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