[hollerith]

>Do you enjoy drinking contaminated water? Breathing leaded gasoline?

The Soviet Union had worse environmental problems than any of the capitalist countries.

>There is a rich history of the USA interfering in socialist and generally leftist countries with democratic processes.

True, but the US interfered very little in Vietnam in the years after 1975 and in Cambodia after the Khmer Rouge took over, and still millions of Vietnamese fled the country after 1975 on makeshift boats and still millions of Cambodians were killed by their own government.

No country interfered to any significant degree with the Soviet Union except during the first 5 years of the Union's existence because after they had eliminated internal competition to their rule, the Soviets were very competent at national security and were mostly immune to outside interference.