Every tenth does not know with whom the USSR fought

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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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      1. Aleks
        -4
        5 June 2011 22: 50
        If the Russians were SMALLER than they think of themselves, then the ANSWERS of the majority would also be CLOSE to the truth and the USSR would not have had the greatest losses in World War II - 2 million people! and the USSR would not have collapsed and the standard of living in today's Russia would be NOT LOWER than that of the "vanquished" (Germany, Japan, Finland .....)
        It is necessary to be more modest and not to consider the Americans "stupid", because, as the SURVEY showed and the standard of living of Russians - there are EVEN DILDER !!!
        1. 0
          29 July 2011 14: 06
          USU ... at least we know who the president is ...
          1. Superduck
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            29 July 2011 14: 25
            I read recently that about 10% said that Putin.
    2. AKM
      AKM
      0
      29 July 2011 14: 40
      Not to do with the stupidity of Russian citizens. Ideologists stupidly do not work and the Western cult works. Our children watch movie cartoons and everything else is not Russian, they cut the whole story. And what do we want. It’s not our values ​​that instill us in a stupid way, and they are taught from the screens that we won’t win anywhere but just crap everywhere. I saw polls on youth television of 15-18 years old so they shave there, carried about the Second World War.
      I’m trying to tell my child about the war and about who was part of the USSR, how it broke up, etc. I’m trying to tell what I know myself. I don’t think that many do it.
      I think the amers are not stupid just in their heads only that info which is convenient for rulers, ideologists, etc.
      1. Superduck
        0
        29 July 2011 14: 56
        We have another spontaneous.
    3. 0
      29 July 2011 15: 27
      Thanks to the Ministry of Education !!! For teaching history! I will quote Confucius: "A person who does not foresee the future, failures and misfortunes await in him! STUDY HISTORY TO PREVENT THE FUTURE!" While we are aiming for the system of lapdogs in the education of children, which has already brought the Western world to stupidity, we will produce-deleted-, and then we will once again have 22 June 1941, only in an already terrible version.
    4. Backfire
      0
      18 December 2011 19: 24
      The twenty-year-old result of the work of the crappy Russian government ...
    5. rfgthfyu
      0
      13 May 2012 13: 15
      A practical illustration of the introduction of the USE, which is supported by Medvedev (see his last press conference in April), and Fursenko is actively "breaking through". And they say they are looking for a national idea.
    6. 0
      26 September 2012 05: 01
      Hmm ... how sad it is. The war is judged by such films as "We are from the future." Realistic historical film :)

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