by Jonathan Saxty at Express UK
Whisper it quietly but Eastern European attitudes towards the war in Ukraine are beginning to turn in Russia‘s favour or at least moving away from Ukraine.
It seems unconscionable but peek behind the curtain at attitudes and trends among those in Russia‘s former sphere of influence and some startling truths emerge.
One Eurobarometer poll in 2022 had already found that across Central and Eastern Europe, total agreement on support for sanctions against Russia varies from highs of 57 percent in Poland and 55 percent in Estonia to lows of 35 percent in Slovakia, 30 percent in Hungary and 20 percent in Bulgaria (https://europa.eu/eurobarometer/surveys/detail/2693).
Meanwhile, data from Slovakian non-governmental organisation GLOBSEC last year found while narrow majorities of people in the Czech Republic, Estonia, Lithuania and Poland would like their countries to be part of ‘the West’, this was still below half for people in Bulgaria, Hungary, Latvia, Romania and Slovakia.
More recently, we know from a study in the Czech Republic that…
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