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| Russia took off her rose-colored glasses and believed in herself |
| 2023-08-04 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. by Petr Akopov [RIA] Which of the two statements do you agree with: "Only a fifth of the citizens consider the structure of Russia to be fair" or "Russians put their country in first place in the list of states with the most just society"? In fact, there is no contradiction here: these are all data from the same VTsIOM survey. Which just investigated what our citizens think about social justice. So why are there such conflicting results? VTsIOM has been conducting such surveys for a long time, so the dynamics are visible (somewhere in ten, and sometimes in fifteen years). In 2013, answering "in which country in the world the society is arranged most fairly", they chose the West. For some reason, Australia was in first place (13 percent - probably because it was first on the list), then Austria (seven percent), the USA , Great Britain , the Emirates, Belarus ... Then less than one percent of respondents chose their own country, and the most popular answer was: "There is no such country." This was the opinion of a third of the respondents, while every fifth found it difficult to choose. And what do we see now? Russia is in first place with 21 percent (this is the reason for the headline "Over ten years, the number of Russians who believe that society is organized in Russia is most just, has grown 20 times"), then China (11 percent), Belarus ( six percent ) and Sweden and Norway (5 percent each). And the Anglo-Saxon countries (USA, UK, Australia and Canada ) scored two percent each. What happened? Perhaps the results were affected by the departure abroad of the most pro-Western part of society? No, their share is in any case small. Maybe patriotic propaganda denouncing the "decaying West" influenced? And its influence should not be overestimated - everything is much more serious. Our society has become more sober about the world around us and about our own country, that is, they have taken off their rose-colored glasses when assessing foreign countries and have begun to get rid of sweeping slander against their own country. And this in itself is very correct. Naturally, the fact that in Russia the authorities really began to move more actively towards social justice also had an effect, especially after the adoption of amendments to the Constitution in early 2020. Yes, then there was a pandemic that both rallied society and exacerbated claims to power, but on the whole, Putin’s direction of movement towards building a more just society is beyond doubt. Therefore, 37 percent of those surveyed said that the policy of the authorities rather contributes to strengthening social justice in our society, and ten years ago only one in five agreed with this. But here we are talking about moving towards social justice, and not about achieving the result desired by the authorities and society. Therefore, 20 percent of those who put Russia in first place in the rating of social justice is not a little, but a lot: after all, we know how many problems we have with injustice, inequality, poverty, and corruption. A huge number - and then there is the strain of forces due to the NWO, and sanctions that do not improve the economy. However, it is the test of wartime that leads to an additional increase in the demand for justice - in every sense. And in the equality of all before the law (this is put in the first place by 36 percent), and in the fact that the position of everyone is determined by the results of his work (20 percent), and even in such a socialist legacy as "that the standard of living of all should be approximately the same, not there were neither rich nor poor" (19 percent). The fact that society wants justice is not new, but it is important that it begins to believe in the ability and desire of the authorities to build a just society. And he no longer considers it impossible to build a just society (it is clear that it is not absolutely fair and not in the communist ideal): if ten years ago a third of the respondents believed that there was no such country in the world, now only ten percent think so. At the same time, we do not have magic recipes for building a society of social justice - this can be seen from the answers to the question "What should the state do?". If five years ago the fight against corruption was put in the first place (14 percent), now it has been overtaken by the desire to "strengthen social policy" (15 percent, against 12 for anti-corruption activities). They propose 12 percent to raise wages and pensions, nine percent each for "tightening the legislation" and the principle "the law is the same for all." It turns out that there is an unambiguous demand for the fight against corruption and equal responsibility for the rich and officials and for ordinary citizens, as well as for strengthening social support (and it is by no means limited to the growth of benefits), and this, in principle, corresponds to the course taken country. It is clear that the resistance of the elites is great: in the post-Soviet years, a new nomenklatura has been formed, consisting of bureaucracy and big business, and it sincerely considers itself the salt of the earth, standing above the law. But the direction of movement has been set - both the will of the president and the desire of the people coincide in the main thing: only a just Russia can be strong and stable. Fighting for a more just world order, we do not forget for a second that we need it only in order to build a system at home that meets the interests and ideals of our people. |
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