Measuring public opinion in a climate of political repression is a hazardous business
But is there a more reliable, scientific way of measuring Russian attitudes to the war? In my view, the most interesting survey is one that was conducted on March 24-30 andby the Chicago Council on Global Affairs and the Levada Center — which is Russia’s most reputable, independent polling group.
According to the survey, some 53 per cent of Russians strongly support and 28 per cent somewhat support their country’s military operation in Ukraine. A similarly large majority expresses a favourable view of Putin. Furthermore, the survey used the terms “denazify” and “denazification”, because that’s how the Russian authorities and state-controlled media, at least, defined one objective of the war. Yet this inflammatory Great Patriotic War-style language is pure propaganda and a barefaced lie.
. “In the current environment of extreme censorship in Russia, it’s very difficult to know what to make of polls and of public opinion in general,” wrote Jordan Gans-Morse less than a month after the invasion.
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