Nostalgia for the Soviet Union[1] (Russian: ностальгия по СССР) or Soviet nostalgia[2][3] is a social phenomenon of nostalgia for the Soviet era (1922–1991), whether for its politics, its society, its culture, or simply its aesthetics. Such nostalgia occurs among people in Russia and other post-Soviet states, as well as among persons born in the Soviet Union but long since living abroad.