The article contemplates the main changes in the ontology of the postsocialist people. It focuses on how and why the concept of the happy future and gradually future as such has left their imaginary. The authors concentrates on the main decolonial ideas relevant for the analysis of the postsoviet human condition, society, culture, and activist art. The paper also dwells on the anatomy of the Soviet imperial nostalgia trying to understand, what is the difference between the Soviet original and the postsoviet copy. The author delves into the analysis of various postsoviet trajectories within the global coloniality to show how the postsoviet world has become a space with no teleology and what challenges this entails for the homo postsovieticus.