Poll: 63% of Russian approve of Lenin's role

ChrisD(RJ) chrisd at russiajournal.com
Sat Apr 20 03:40:42 PDT 2002


Poll: 63% of Russian approve of Lenin's role

MOSCOW. April 19 (Interfax) - Two thirds of Russians, 63%, are confident that proletarian leader Vladimir Lenin played a positive role in Russia's development, according to a poll conducted by the Public Opinion Foundation among 1,500 respondents on April 13.

Three years ago, 65% of Russians positively assessed Lenin's contribution

to history.

This year, 17% of the respondents negatively assessed Lenin's activities,

down from 23% in 1999.

Among those praising Lenin's role, Communist Party supporters account for

88%, poorly-educated people total 77%, the elderly amount to 75%, and the rural population reaches 73%.



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