While condemning the program in general, Russians support most of its statements. Respondents only oppose the ban on professions proposed by "destanilizators".
MOSCOW, May 17, 2011. Russian Public Opinion Research Center (VCIOM) presents the data describing the attitudes of Russians to the destanilization project.
Among the initiatives within the destanilization project most of Russians support the idea to provide the free access for researchers to the documents related to the burial places of victims of political repressions, declassifying documents on political repressions in the country (71%). Most of respondents also approve of the following ideas: reburial of the Lenin`s body (52%), setting up monuments to the victims of Stalinist repressions in the cities and rural area (51%), ban to name cities, streets, squares after the people who were responsible for repressions, giving people an opportunity to appeal any legal act of the Stalin`s time to recognize it invalid (48% for each), sending the profit of the enterprises constructed with the use of the prisoners to the foundation supporting rehabilitated citizens (47%), and creating new school resources on national history free of the myths of the Stalinist epoch (44%).
Russians express negative attitudes to two measures such as the revision of commemorative dates and professional holidays not to be focused solely on soviet history, and dismissal of state officials who publicly deny the crimes of the Stalinist regime (50% for each).
The initiative Russian opinion polls were conducted on 16-17 April, 2011. 1600 respondents were interviewed at 138 sampling points in 46 regions of Russia. The margin of errordoes not exceed 3.4%.
Which of the following statements would you rather support and which ones-not? (close-ended question, one answer per each position) | |||
| Rather support | Rather not support | Hard to tell |
To provide the free access for researchers to all the documents related to the burial places of victims of terror; to declassify the documents related to political repressions in the country | 71 | 16 | 14 |
Reburial of the Lenin`s body in the ordinary cemetery | 52 | 30 | 18 |
To set up monuments to victims of political repressions in all big cities and rural area | 51 | 32 | 17 |
To ban naming cities, streets, squares after the people responsible for mass repressions and other crimes of the Stalinist regime against rights and freedoms of people | 48 | 34 | 18 |
Give people an opportunity to appeal against any legal act of the Stalin`s time to recognize it invalid | 48 | 23 | 29 |
To send part of profit of enterprises constructed with the use of the prisoners` labor to the foundation supporting the rehabilitated citizens | 47 | 25 | 28 |
To create new school resources on national history free of the myths of the Stalin`s time, which would contain clear moral, legal and political assessment of Stalinism as pernicious phenomenon | 44 | 33 | 24 |
To revise the official commemorative dates and professional holidays not to be focused solely on the soviet history. For example, the day of Russian militia is proposed to be celebrated not in November, but in June, in the honor of the Decree of Peter I to establish police | 26 | 50 | 24 |
To dismiss those state officials who publicly deny the crimes of the Stalinist regime | 22 | 50 | 28 |
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