Half of the population of Ukraine has no regrets about the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. The opposite opinion is held by 35 percent of respondents, as evidenced by the poll conducted by the sociological group Rating in September.
According to the survey, 35 percent of respondents regret the collapse of the Soviet Union, 50 percent – do not regret, another 15 percent are undecided on this issue. In the south, east and center of the country about 40 percent of respondents regret the collapse of the Soviet Union, in the West – half as many (18 percent).
The dynamics shows that this year the number of respondents who regret the collapse of the USSR, has slightly increased compared with the results of 2014 and 2015: 35 percent this year compared with 33 percent in 2014 and 31 percent in 2015.
Most of the respondents who are nostalgic about the USSR, are ready today to support at the presidential elections Opposition bloc party leader Yuriy Boiko (68 percent), leader of the Za Zhittia party (For life) Vadym Rabynovych (52 percent) and people’s deputy Nadiya Savchenko (44 percent). Among those who regret the collapse of the Soviet Union, about a third support the party Batkivshchyna leader Yuliya Tymoshenko and leader of the Radical party Oleh Lyashko, a quarter of the USSR supporters belong to the supporters of the Civil Position party leader Anatoliy Hrytsenko and President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko.
At the same time, the least get nostalgic about the USSR among the supporters of Lviv mayor Andriy Sadovy (9 percent) and Svoboda Party Oleh Tiahnybok (8 percent).
The older the respondents and the lower the level of education and income, the more they regret the collapse of the USSR. More women have nostalgia for the Soviet Union. Among unemployed respondents 42 percent regret about the collapse of the USSR, among employees – 28 percent feel regret.
Sociological group Rating conducted its poll on September 16-22, 2016. It was conducted among the population of people who are older 18 (a total of 2000 respondents). The sample is representative by age, sex, regions and type of settlement by means of personal formalized interview (face-to-face). The poll’s margin of error does not exceed 2.2 percent.
