Were living conditions better in imperial Russia than in communist Russia?

Answer:
Each of these periods had advantages and lacks, but in Soviet Union people had
- free education
- free medicine
- everyone had work
- everyone had houses and flats
- each small nation had their original territory, their languages, their traditions etc. (american indians were killed where colonizers appeared at the lands)
etc.
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