Comment: If you feel that the gains in gender equality (If they were gains and not just part of the culture before the revolution) negates the starvation, lack of basic luxuries freely obtainable in the west, loss of freedom and the reintroduction of slavery - the gulags were labour camps after all where people not only worked without wages in the worst conditions in the frozen tundra without adequate sustenance- then perhaps you should re-examine your priorities.  How many Soviet leaders were female?