Well, I waited one day, still no one posts any link to a survey that says most Russians today actually prefer to live under communist Soviet Union. Of course, there're a few people missing the Soviet era, there're some people in China missing the Mao era as well, but there's absolutely nothing indicates they are the majority. Many Russians like Putin, but Putin is a democratically-elected leader, not one annointed by Stalin, is he? The world had about 40 communist countries in 1989, it only has 5 today. And not single one of these 35 countries want to go back to the old time. Communist dictatorship is already in the garbage of history. This is a historical trend that none of you are able to fight, using the words from your dear leader Mao "Your resistence is futile'
I give you one link.
When the Communists were in power, we had no way of knowing what ordinary Russians thought because all the media, without exception, were controlled by the Communist Party and expressed its interests. Since the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the situation in this respect has undergone drastic change. Russians have adopted with great enthusiasm western methods of public opinion polling and we now have reliable information about their thoughts and wants on almost every subject. The leading polling organization is the All-Russian Center for the Study of Public Opinion, directed by Iurii Levada. The results from this and other such institutes are regularly reported in their own publications as well as in the popular daily, IZVESTIA. The information provided below dates from 1999-2004.
Unfortunately, the results of these polls are not encouraging.They indicate a preference for order over freedom, suspicion of democracy and the free market, and nostalgia for the Soviet Union. Russians emerge as a people who mistrust everyone except their closest family and friends, as individuals who, in the words of one opinion survey, live in “trenches” feeling surrounded on all sides by enemies.
As a consequence of these factors, today’s Russians view democracy as a fraud: 78 percent of respondents in a 2003 survey said that democracy is a facade concealing a regime in which real power is exercised by rich and powerful cliques. Only 22 percent express a preference for democracy, whereas 53 percent positively dislike it. 52 percent believe multiparty elections do more harm than good. Altogether Russians feel they have no influence over government, whether national or local, and hence are quite prepared to live under a one-party regime.
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http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangl ... hink-and-want/2988/ |