The attitudes of Russians toward representatives of a particular nation do not depend on the memory about the World War II: Russians equally favor the Italian people, our enemy, and the French people, our allies.
MOSCOW, June 21, 2011. On the Day of Remembrance and Sorrow, 22 June, Russian Public Opinion Research Centre (VCIOM) presents the data concerning the current attitudes of Russians towards nations participating in the World War II.
Today the attitudes of Russians towards Germans do not differ a lot from the attitudes of Russians toward other nations participated in the World War II, including the allies of the USSR. Germans hold third position among the likes of Russians (index of attitudes toward this nation* - 36 points), sharing it with the Finns and the English people, and giving way to the French people, Italians (39 points for each) and Japanese (31). The least favored nations among nations-participants of the WWII are the Poles а (15 points) and Americans (18 points).
In general, most of Russians are indifferent to all the nations who participated in the WWII (52-60% are indifferent to them).
The young respondents tend to have positive attitudes to the countries that participated in the WWII, rather than elderly respondents. The Englishmen are favored by 40% of respodnents younger than 35 and only 29% of the elderly persons. The same thing can be applied to the Germans (37-42% versus 30% respectively), French people (43 versus 33% respectively), Japanese (42 versus 32% respectively).
The higher the level of education is, the more positive attitudes respondents have toward nations. Germans are favored by 24% of respodnents with low level of education and 44% of those with high level of education, Americans - 18 and 37% respectively, Englishmen - 19 and 45% respectively, Italians - 22 and 55% respectively, Poles - 16 and 29% respectively, Finns - 23 and 41% respectively, French - 23 and 44% respectively, Japanese - 21 and 45% respectively.
The initiative Russian opinion polls were conducted on June 18-19, 2011. 1600 respondents were interviewed at 138 sampling points in 46 regions of Russia. The marginof error does not exceed 3.4%.
What is your general attitude towards representatives of the following countries? (close-ended question, one answer per each line) | |||||
| Likes, interest | Indifferent, no emotions | Dislikes, irritation | Hard to tell, ambiguous feeling | Index (the difference between positive and negative evaluations) |
Italy | 39 | 55 | 3 | 3 | 36 |
France | 39 | 56 | 3 | 3 | 36 |
Japan | 38 | 52 | 7 | 3 | 31 |
England | 35 | 56 | 6 | 3 | 29 |
Germany | 36 | 55 | 7 | 3 | 29 |
Finland | 34 | 58 | 5 | 3 | 29 |
United States | 31 | 54 | 13 | 3 | 18 |
Poland | 26 | 60 | 11 | 3 | 15 |
*Index of attitudes towards representatives of a particular nation shows how Russians perceive representative of a particular nation and is calculated as a difference between positive and negative evaluaitons. The higher the value of the index is, the better the attitudes of the respodnents are toward a particular nation. The value of the index can vary from -100 to 100 points.
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