Salome,
Napoleon the first, was one of the most bloody crazy wacko dictators the whole world have ever seen, yet this doesn't prevent me to appreciate the French civil code written under his bloody regime, or some of the great revolutionary achievements done in his era.
My thread is about the Soviet era's arts and music and achievements...not about communism. It is not about "adoration of soviet crimes", but about appreciation of some aspect of the soviet culture under the communist regime.
The regime's atrocities are the fruit of few criminals in power, while the culture and achievements are the fruit of a whole historic nation, in all its working forces and thinking brains.
I hope that you can appreciate the difference, and give that great nation, the credit it deserves.