Search for Locutus, it’s very similar to what I’ve been imagining, only real (well, not yet, it’s a project).

And how are they treated by them, exactly? Asked to pay for the space provided?

You mean, worse than you speak of landlords?

7 out of 11 countries believe the end of the USSR harmed their countries rather than benefited them

That’s because USSR was designed intentionally so that its end would be a catastrophe. To prevent that end. However, since it was simply unable to exist further even on life support, what happened happened still.

End of USSR being bad doesn’t mean USSR being good. It’s just a choice between horrible end and horror without end.

I live in Russia and you do not.