A new Levada poll indicates that after a brief infatuation with markets and “Western-style democracy” in the early 1990s, Russians more or less consistently consider the Soviet system to be the best one out there.
Russians on the Country’s Political and Economic System
Which of these political systems do you think is best: The Soviet system (the one we had until the 1990’s), the current one, or Western-style democracy?
Which of these political systems do you consider to be most legitimate?