Foir me personally, I am quite relaxed when playing the Soviets. You don't have recorded stats so you can be as carefree with them as you like. People need to realize this.
Normally, I don't care about stats on a personal level. But there are people who will try to discredit you in balance discussions if you have bad stats. I don't have to worry about that with the Soviets so I'm happy to play them against any odds.