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An inconvenient truth: the enduring popularity of socialism in the post-Soviet states
The popularity of the political and economic system of the Soviet Union is at an all time high in its homelands. GAVIN MENDEL-GLEASON asks why
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TWO decades of polling by the Levada Centre, a Russian NGO, show that the majority of people in Russia regret the downfall of the USSR. It is mainly economic and social reasons that fuel this regret. This year, positive sentiment towards the Soviet Union has hit a 14-year-high.
These statistics are worth spending some time perusing. The popularity of the Soviet Union ebbs and flows with the strength of the economy. Yet only once since polling began in 1992 did regret at its demise fall below 50 per cent.
What may come as a surprise to most of us in the West is that the inability to travel and holiday freely since the collapse is one of the reasons cited by the public – a stark contrast to the familiar tales of Soviet citizens yearning for free travel. The relaxation of travel restrictions to countries outside of the former Soviet states mean little to those who used to spend their holidays in Sochi, Batumi or Crimea but can no longer afford to do so.
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