Independent polling shows that Russians still prefer the Soviet government

[misskit]

Independent polling shows that Russians still prefer the Soviet government of the late 70s and early 80s

6:04 am, August 5, 2019
Source: Vedomosti




New polling by the independent Levada Center, reported by the newspaper Vedomosti, shows that Russians are vastly more sympathetic toward the late Soviet government than Russia’s contemporary state officials. Asked to name the “qualities that characterize the Soviet authorities,” 29 percent of respondents said they were “close to the people,” 25 percent said they were “strong,” and 22 percent said they were “just.” When asked about contemporary officials, respondents’ answers were more negative: 41 percent said the government today is “criminal” or “corrupt,” 31 percent said it has lost touch with the people, and 24 percent called it overly bureaucratic.



Vedomosti points out that this trend has persisted even in years when the Kremlin enjoyed its highest popularity, in 2008 when the economy peaked and Russia trounced Georgia in a brief war, and after the annexation of Crimea.





https://meduza.io/en/news/2019/08/05...-and-early-80s

[Klondyke]

Independent polling shows that Russians still prefer the Soviet government of the late 70s and early 80s

6:04 am, August 5, 2019
Source: Vedomosti


New polling by the independent Levada Center, reported by the newspaper Vedomosti,

Demyan Kudryavtsev is one of the best known managers in the Russian media. His family owns the business newspaper Vedomosti and several other news outlets, including The Moscow Times. Russian federal law limits foreign ownership of mass media outlets to 20 percent, prohibiting foreigners from being the founders of mass media outlets.

Russian media giant Demyan Kudryavtsev has been stripped of his Russian citizenship

Media owner Demyan Kudryavtsev was stripped of his Russian citizenship on February 2, 2017, according to a letter from the Interior Ministry to Kudryavtsev, obtained by the news agency RBC. Documents also show that Kudryavtsev voluntarily surrendered his Russian passport on March 16.

Kudryavtsev has refused to comment on the story, though a source close to him confirmed to Meduza that the prominent media owner has indeed lost his Russian citizenship.

Currently, Kudryavtsev’s Israeli citizenship allows him to remain in Russia for up to 90 days without a visa. According to RBC’s sources, this period has nearly expired and Kudryavtsev will soon be forced to return to Israel, though Meduza’s source claims that Kudryavtsev has no plans to go back to Israel. He reportedly hopes to resolve his citizenship dispute in Russia before he’s ordered to leave the country.

In the past, Kudryavtsev has claimed that Russian migration officials started “persecuting” him after he began the process of acquiring the newspaper Vedomosti in 2015.

The first reports claiming that Kudryavtsev might lose his Russian citizenship because of a forged passport emerged in February this year, and the businessman later verified that Russia’s Federal Migration Service found incomplete data in his documents and won a lawsuit against him. Kudryavtsev has insisted, however, that officials never completed the process required to strip him of his Russian citizenship.

https://meduza.io/en/news/2017/07/21...an-citizenship

[misskit]

^ Your point is? Are you saying that which is reported is not true? I quite thought you would agree with the poll, considering how you long for the way things used to be in the Soviet Union.

[Klondyke]

Independent polling

The attitude of Russians towards Soviet power in the late 1970s and early 1980s turned out to be better than modern Russian. This became known from a survey of the Levada Center , the Vedomosti newspaper , owned by the family of Demyan Kudryavtsev , reports .

https://lenta.ru/news/2019/08/05/ussr_russia/

[Klondyke]

Actually, in all post soviet bloc countries are many who think that the life was much easier before the socialist system has been slowly demolished on the way to the American Dream.

And they are not so far from reality. Although the majority did not live in luxurious conditions (like the majority in the Western countries ), they did not know what is a bankruptcy, they did not have a jobless rate, did not know there are some homeless people (unless the propaganda showed them some pictures from another side of the world), did not care about a health or pension insurance and they did not need to work over 60 years old.

And because they did not work so hard as some of the hard-working oligarchs, they were not able to stash away their earnings onto islands to have something aside for the life in the longed-for life in a capitalist system...

[Cujo]

Who was that poster who was a former stasi officer? Rain something. He was interesting. Whatever happened to him.