Every tenth does not know with whom the USSR fought
Sociologists have found that 78% of our fellow citizens can not give a date for the start of the war. Every tenth does not know with whom the USSR fought. And half of Russians have no idea about the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact.
Half of Russians believe that World War II began in 1941
Eight out of ten Russians do not know when World War II began.
According to a sociological survey by VTsIOM, the majority of our fellow citizens are confident that the date of the start of world war coincides with the date of the German attack on the Soviet Union.
The fact that the Second World War began on June 22 of the year 1941, said 58% of respondents.
In general, we could not give the date of the start of hostilities 15% of respondents, and 5% tried to guess the correct answer.
Only 22% of Russians know that the war began on September 1 1939.
Every tenth person does not know with whom the Soviet people fought
Every tenth respondent does not know who was the main opponent of the USSR in the Second World War.
Some recorded as enemies England, France and the USA, Ukraine, Czechoslovakia, Norway, Bulgaria (1 percent), China, Spain (2%), Finland, Poland and Austria-Hungary (3%) and Romania (5%) .
Every fourth Russian has no idea about which countries belonged to the anti-Hitler coalition.
One percent of those polled said that Italy was fighting on the side of the USSR.
About the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact has no idea every second respondent
Virtually nothing our fellow citizens do not know about the document largely predetermined the start of hostilities in 1939 year.
Thus, according to the VTsIOM data on the existence of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, seven days after the signing of which Germany attacked Poland, they did not hear anything 32% of respondents.
Although in fact we can safely say that there are more than half of these - because 27% were also ashamed to admit that they do not know what they are talking about.
I did not read, but I condemn
It is interesting that to judge the significance of this document is taken by a much larger number of respondents.
For example, only 18% of respondents found it difficult to assess the consequences of adopting a pact, while 82% decided not to hesitate to share their opinions with sociologists.
Of these, 57% confidently stated that the adoption of the document was for Stalin the only way out and allowed to delay the start of the war.
And 25% said that the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact untied the hands of Hitler and, in principle, made the Second World War possible.
It is noteworthy that in a different group of questions of sociologists of VTsIOM, one way or another assessing the consequences of the signing of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, the number of those who found it difficult to answer turned out to be different.
The question of what helped Hitler unleash World War II could not answer 37%.
And before the question “What did Stalin achieve by signing the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact?” 13% of respondents gave up.
According to a similar survey by Levada Center, the existence of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact does not know anything 52% of respondents.
And every second respondent did not dare to assess the value of this document.
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