Dear descendants, today you are celebrating a unique day: a hundred years of Soviet rule. […] We know our time is interesting, but yours is much more so. We are building communism and you live it. We believe that you have perfectly equipped our blue planet, colonised the Moon, landed on Mars; that you are continuing the exploration of outer space that we, people of the first 50 years, have begun, and that your ships are sailing across the galaxy. We believe you are holding talks about scientific and cultural collaboration with representatives of other galaxies, alien civilisations. We believe that the work that our fathers and grandfathers started 50 years ago and which we share, you will finish and bring to victory.”

You’ve never had to chant: ‘Shame on the Israeli aggressors!’, you’ve never had to protest the criminal war in Vietnam, read news about provocations in revolutionary Cuba. How far away these events are from you! […] Young crowd of 2017! We are sure that you have justified the trust your heroic predecessors have invested in you, that you have created a new world.”

We have found in the earth of our peninsula the richest deposits of valuable metals and minerals, we have built towns, cities, factories and power plants in the tundra, laid roads, built a navy and learned how to reap a harvest from this meagre polar soil. We have only made our first steps into outer space, and you are probably already flying to other planets. You will uncover many natural secrets, curb nuclear power, tame the forces of nature, improve the climate, grow gardens in the Arctic Circle. Remember us, your predecessors, who built your city and whose lives were sacrificed for the struggle to build communism.”

Dear comrades-descendants, the labourers of the 20th century are writing to you. Tell your children and grandchildren how we struggled for your right to immortality. We lived in heroic times when great discoveries were made, when the world was shaken by revolutions and wars burned the planet. […] You have probably already eliminated all harmful bacteria and viruses and live without ageing or sickness. But it was us who helped you in this, when we discovered the mysteries of cancer and overcame the barrier of tissue incompatibility.”

We paid a heavy price of millions of lives for our victory. And today, on 22 June 1969, on the 28th anniversary of the treacherous attack by Nazi Germany on our Soviet country, we address you, those who don’t know what war is. We urge you to remember and respect the memory of those who gave their lives in the fight for socialism, who died defending the freedom of the motherland and European nations from foreign invaders. Guard like sacred relics the monuments we have built to commemorate those who died.”

They might not have gotten the world they wanted to see entirely, but we aren’t completely lost. China is a socialist nation that has some pretty futuristic tech. If you look at it like China taking up the torch for the USSR we haven’t gone backwards progress has just been slower than they expected. We just need to keep fighting, and we will get there eventually. The USSR might have fallen but what it accomplished did not go away. The USSR is the reason the American Empire is already weakening today. It’s the reason China was able to develop like it did. The reason the DPRK has the weapons it needs to defend itself. etc.

The spectre of the USSR still haunts America to this day. Every area where the USSR prevented American Hegemony from taking hold now fights back against America. Death by 1000 cuts. The effort America had to put in the compete with the USSR strained it’s economy, and caused it to hasten it’s own decline. America did not come out of the Cold War unscathed.

Don’t let the efforts the people who wrote that made go to waste. Don’t stop fighting. Don’t fall into despair. They lost millions to the Nazis and they didn’t fall into despair. They turned the tide, and marched on Berlin. That is the mindset we need today. No matter how bad things seem you never give in.