This docuseries is an interesting news to me, something I am interested to watch at some point.

I however could offer a different perspective on the narrative of collapsing Soviet Union and how supposedly everyone took part in it. Back in the late 1980s the Soviet KGB (mentioned in your post) faced an entirely new issue: one of organized crime, which was earlier unable to get strong footing in the communist state due to its totalitarianism. Nevertheless the corruption had been rampant for many years, establishing privileged classes in the soviet society (who was supposedly building communism the whole time). A lot depended on whether individuals and their families would be able to secure the backing of KGB to advance their careers and thrive in material sense. All of the aforementioned resulted in a post soviet world of 1990s where organized crime, not without help of former soviet KGB operatives of every level, ruled practically everything: decided who's gonna have business, and who's not; who's political career would last and who's wouldn't etc. The common average Joe didn't have any say in anything apart from casting occasional vote for political parties to make it all look like a democracy. The thing you have to understand about the former Soviet empire is that it was built where there were fundamentals of despotic state, established long ago by Moscowites and their Mongol-Tatar overlords. An average Joe has never had any considerable say in state affairs; even when Napoleon invaded Russian empire, the average Russian peasant was hoping Napoleon would treat him as an individual he deserved to be and give him some land. But little has changed since those times. The post soviet individual is not only unable to make anything worthy of his or her reality without czar; the best that world had been capable to make of democracy is an ape of it. Besides, there is an ever persistent hate towards everything Western; that post soviet individual would rather wallow in his or her hopeless and lamentable situation, and take all the frustration out on anyone in their midst who'd try to be different from them as the current Russian invasion of Ukraine proves so evidently; the blatant attempt to be different and advance is the core reason of the war that is taking place there. Because the Russian world considers Ukraine a part of it, its property. They don't understand self determination and freedom of choice; that's how f.cked up all that part of the world really is.