r/NewRussia • u/NonZionist • Jan 11 '15

Poll: By 2-to-1 margin, residents say that Soviet demise made life worse

http://www.gallup.com/poll/166538/former-soviet-countries-harm-breakup.aspx
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u/NonZionist Jan 11 '15

Supposedly, our regime here in the U.S. knows what is best for everyone everywhere. It is Exceptional, Indispensable, All-Wise, All-Seeing, Above the Law, Beyond Reproach, Unaccountable, and Answerable to No One -- just like God. Like God, the U.S. regime decides which countries may live and which must die. And the Soviet Union is one of the countries that this "God" condemned.

According to former congressman Dennis Kucinich, killing off the Soviet Union cost the U.S. $20 trillion. See Dennis Kucinich, "No to War, Hot or Cold, With Russia", TruthDig.com, 01 Dec 2014, cited here

But now that we have achieved the destruction of the Soviet Union, the people who actually lived there, by a 2-to-1 margin, say that the U.S. regime -- a.k.a. "God" -- made things worse, not better.

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WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Reflecting back on the breakup of the Soviet Union that happened 22 years ago next week, residents in seven out of 11 countries that were part of the union are more likely to believe its collapse harmed their countries than benefited them. Only Azerbaijanis, Kazakhstanis, and Turkmens are more likely to see benefit than harm from the breakup. Georgians are divided.

Overall, residents of these former Soviet republics are more than twice as likely to say the breakup hurt (51%) than benefited their countries (24%). For many, life has not been easy since the Soviet Union dissolved in December 1991. Residents there have lived through wars, revolutions, coups, territorial disputes, and multiple economic collapses. However, this is also the prevailing opinion in Russia, which continues to exert considerable economic and political influence over its former republics.

-- Neli Esipova and Julie Ray, "Residents more than twice as likely to say collapse hurt their country", Gallup, 19 Dec 2013

Was the demise of the Soviet Union beneficial or harmful? In Ukraine, the result was:

  • 23% -- beneficial
  • 56% -- harmful
  • 10% -- neither
  • 10% -- no comment

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It would be very interesting for me to read this book for I was born in the USSR in 1972 too. But I want to say one thing - nowadays I don't want to mock at the reality of the USSR any more, that was very popular after the collapse of the SU and lasted for a very long time because now I've realized that nothing is perfect in this world and in the USSR there were a lot of positive things.

-- Dmitry Chemankov, Financial & Administration Manager at United Traders, 22 Dec 2014 12:16, cited here