Levada Center: Stalin is named by Russians as the most prominent figure of all times and peoples.
The survey results are as follows:
fifth position is occupied by Peter I with the result 29% of votes;
on fourth line Vladimir Lenin - 32%;
third position for Alexander Pushkin - 34%;
a similar result, 34%, for the current President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin;
first The respondents gave the place to Joseph Stalin, his result is 38%.
The result is superior to 100%, as suggested by the multiple answer.
Interfax reminds that in a similar survey of the “Levada-center” 5-year-old “Joseph Stalin celebrated the“ victory ”also, with a little big result - 42%. The most interesting thing is that, on the whole, the first five preferences have not changed: the same names and surnames. The difference is in the distribution of places and percentages. So, Vladimir Putin in 2012 had a 4-place with the result of 22% of votes polled by the Levada Center.
Places from 6 to 10 in the most recent survey were taken by Yuri Gagarin, Leo Tolstoy, Georgy Zhukov, Catherine II and Mikhail Lermontov. From foreign figures such figures as Albert Einstein, Napoleon Bonaparte, Isaac Newton are named.
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