It's not about good and evil, it's about what class benefitted. There's no such thing as "good" or "evil," that's not how the locomotive of history moves forward. Instead, history progresses alongside the class struggle. The reason I defend the Soviet Union, and so many socialists do as well, is because it is the first socialist state where workers became the new ruling class. I don't pretend the Soviet Union was perfect, but I don't hide my intention to support the working classes taking control the way the soviets did.

Put simply, the Soviet Union made the lives of their own workers and peasants much better, and supported national liberation movements the world over as well.