Only 40% of Slovaks think Russia is primarily responsible for the war in Ukraine; 34% blame the West, and 17% blame Ukraine. Bulgaria shows similar numbers

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  1. According to a survey conducted in 8 Central and Eastern European countries, Slovakia is the most divided on who is responsible for the war in Ukraine:

    “Unstable and chaotic governance, including the fall of the government in December 2022, accompanied by domestic and foreign actors aiming to further undermine Slovakia’s Transatlantic bond and democracy, have contributed to historically low trust in public institutions in the country (trust in government stands at 18% and the president at 37%) and a decline in the public backing for Ukraine and support for EU and NATO membership. Respondents’ belief that Russia was responsible for the war in Ukraine stood at only 40%, with most falling prey to disinformation narratives, blaming Ukraine or the West.”

    Source: https://www.globsec.org/what-we-do/publications/globsec-trends-2023-united-we-still-stand

  3. I wonder what these people think when they see cities completely destroyed by Russian forces. Putin is war criminal and his forces are murdering civilians. If someone is oppressing Russians it is multi-billioner Putin and his oligarchs.

  6. Slovaks need to be VERY, VERY careful. If the go and decide to become Orbanistan 2.0 it would take them decades to recover from subsequent brain drain given basically nonexistent language barrier with Czech Republic.

  10. I am not satisfied with Poland. The first bar should be 100%. If you don’t know who’s responsible for russian tanks, gathered up in russia, and russian troops, commanded by russians, entering Ukraine then idk what’s wrong with you.

    Btw 3 of 4 countries at the top border russia.
    None of 4 at the bottom borders it.

    If all your neighbours have an issue with you, look for the problem in yourself.

  13. “West” undoubtedly contributed (in particular countries who opposed Ukraine NATO membership), but it wasn’t “primarily responsible”.

  14. wondering how many from those slovakian 51% and bulgarian 47% want to a) their country to leave Nato b) their border with ukraine replaced on border with russia

  15. Honestly Romania never had any good relationships with Ukraine, nor did it had bad ones since we both hate Russia but this results are to be expected as the war affects everyone and empathy runs out fast when relationships are neutral.

    Thought I’ve said the results are to be expected, they certainly are not good in any way.

  16. offtop: I have an idea how we can separate idiots from elections (any) – everybody should fill a captcha.

  17. Bulgaria I understand because of history, but why do slovaks seem to like Russia way more than the other western slavs

  19. Slovakia can be considered as a testing ground for [russian disinformation games](https://www.euronews.com/2023/03/29/russian-embassy-in-slovakia-uses-facebook-to-push-propaganda-why-are-so-many-slovaks-buyin) for a good part of the last decade. Social media were just literally turned into sewage there. After a lot of pressure there was ONE person hired at Facebook who is responsible for the whole country to deal with fake news. Good luck with that.

    Tech companies may take fake news more seriously in USA or UK where they are obliged to comply. Not in Central Europe or the rest of the World. The damage that social media caused for the democracy is just awful.

    This in combination with the fact that fake news can now pay for themselves (via clicks + online advertising) is another bad news for democracy.

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