The Russians listed the main associations with the Soviet Union. Every fifth resident has positive memories of this period, the VTsIOM poll showed.
Thus, 21 percent of Russians said that they associate the USSR with such concepts as belief in a bright future, stability, tranquility or confidence in the future. More often than others, servicemen and people with higher education, as well as Russians 45-59 years old (28 percent) and over 60 years old (23 percent) spoke about this.
11 percent associate the USSR with their own childhood and adolescence, or with the youth of their parents. These answers are more popular with older and middle-aged people, and they are more common in women than in men. Only 1 percent of Russians associate the USSR with repression and the GULAG, and 5 percent with deficits and queues.
Earlier it became known about the quarrel between the former head of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev and the ex-President of Russia Boris Yeltsin, which occurred after the signing of the Belovezhskaya agreements. Former President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev recalled that he received an invitation from Yeltsin to visit Belovezhskaya Pushcha and sign an agreement on the collapse of the Soviet Union, but rejected it.
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