Which area of Russia do you live in

Moscow, I also had relatives in SPb (not anymore), other relatives in Nizhny Novgorod, other relatives in Voronezh, and some in Rostov-on-Don.

and what do the local people over 60 that actually lived in the USSR have to say

Different things for different people.

Educated people in general have to say on politics the same things that I said earlier, but they are very nostalgic over less criminalized popular culture, better technical education and rules being followed. So am I to some extent actually.

Less educated and poorer people would have uncritical approval of whatever they approve now. USSR, because "people had everything and everything was cheap and deficit is a lie", even though they lived to see it and themselves mention it in unconnected conversations, but it's always some enemies behind it, or maybe of Putin and so on.

Can be seen with my aunts in Armenia too, one of them is a pharmacist and sees things adequately, if pessimistically. Another is an accountant and goes into complete denial in any honest conversation about anything political, she just can't bear it as some people can't bear honest conversations about sex.

There may be gradations.

I already know of course and could post video interviews of such

That's not an argument. You can make video interviews with all kinds of people of all kinds of demographics to say what you want. That's what propaganda does since "video" became a thing. Discarded.

but perhaps you could tell the thread what those people say.

Yes, see the above.

Forgive me for assuming but I’m willing to bet you’re in your teens or twenties, making you at best 10 years old when it ended, meaning you have little to no actual recollection of what living and working was like. I could be wrong of course.

No recollection at all, I'm 1996, but since transition from USSR to modern Russia didn't happen in an instance, in various institutions and organizations you can still see in some ways how it was. More in my childhood than now, but still.

Also naturally I have parents and grandparents, and friends' parents and their grandparents, and parents' friends, and so on, you get the idea.

I live in this society and you don't, so I know more than you, which could help you if you weren't in denial.