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August 28th 2006

Opinion poll: most Russians still view Soviet Communist Party as beneficial

Fifteen years of life under capitalism has failed to convince the majority of Russians that socialism and communist leadership were bad for their country.

An article published on 28th August 2006 by the Russian news agency RIA Novosti includes the following paragraph:

"According to a recent poll by the Public Opinion Foundation, 51% of Russians consider the CPSU's [Communist Party of the Soviet Union's] role beneficial rather than harmful, and a mere 15% hold the opposite view. The same 51% think that it is advisable to learn from the CPSU's experience."

The article also noted that the Russians also hold the view that life was at its best between the mid-1960s and early 1980s, when Leonid Brezhnev (a leader who was not renowned for his dynamism or charisma) was the General Secretary of the Comminist Party:

"No wonder so many Russians are ready to accept a one-party system and a special role for United Russia, and see Leonid Brezhnev, once no more than the butt of humiliating jokes, as the man whose rule was the strongest (after Stalin), and under whom life was at its best."

Leonid Brezhnev