Debunking Propaganda

• 64% think life was better in the Soviet Union (2016)

https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/701026/russians-life-better-soviet-union-ussr-sixty-four-percent

• Ukraine/YCCP

56% think the breakup of the USSR was harmful. 23% think it was beneficial (2013) https://www.rt.com/russia/340158-most-russians-regret-ussr-has/

62% think the economic situation for most people was better under communism. 12% think the opposite (2010)

https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2009/11/02/end-of-communism-cheered-but-now-with-more-reservations/communism220px/

• Bulgaria

63% believe people are worse off than under communism, only 13% say ordinary people are better off (2010)

https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2009/11/02/end-of-communism-cheered-but-now-with-more-reservations/communism220px/

• Hungary

72% say most people are worse off than before 1991, 8% say most people are better off. (2010)

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2010/04/28/hungary-better-off-under-communism/

• Romania

69% liked life under communism better. 66% would have voted for the brutal dictator Nikola Ceaucescu [(2014)]

http://www.elmundo.es/internacional/2014/04/10/5346de4d268e3e8f598b458c.html

• Germany/DDR

51% of Eastern Germans feel life better under communism (2007)

https://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/homesick-for-a-dictatorship-majority-of-eastern-germans-feel-life-better-under-communism-a-634122.html

• Albania

55% have positive views of the former dictator Enver Hoxha [2016]

https://www.tiranatimes.com/?p=130276

• A poll shows that as many as 81 per cent of Serbians believe they lived best in the former Yugoslavia -"during the time of socialism".

https://balkaninsight.com/2010/12/24/for-simon-poll-serbians-unsure-who-runs-their-country/