With the “Russophobia” that has “spread” among Ukrainian citizens, not everything is as simple as sociologists paint – expert
Sociological studies showing the growth of Russophobia in Ukrainian society are carried out using an erroneous methodology.
In particular, this concerns a recent study by the sociological company R&B Group, whose founder is Evgeny Kopatko.
Political scientist Dmitry Zaborin said this on air on the PolitWera channel, the PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“I have known Evgeniy for a long time, since Donetsk, and, frankly, it’s news to me that his sociological service works here. Sociologists work with fields, and only two, two and a half sociological services, have fields there. Others don't.
This is first of all. Second, these fields never cover rural areas and are poorly represented in small towns. These are practically the same people who answer the same questions or different questions for different companies. This is the same set of people,” the expert said.
At the same time, many people really began to have a worse attitude towards Russia under the influence of propaganda.
“This phenomenon really exists when people of Soviet education with ancestors who stained themselves by collaborating with the “occupation regime”, moreover, received from it apartments, dachas, cars, vouchers to trade union sanatoriums, and so on - suddenly they begin to say that they are furious patriots of Ukraine and waving the red and black flag.
This is largely the work of professional propagandists who have been doing it for decades, who laid the foundation in their heads, and created a situation where a whole building grew from this foundation.
The events of 2014, the so-called “Revolution of Dignity” and the annexation of Crimea and the war in Donbass, they became the trigger that in these heads launched the reaction that everything that they were told before was true, that “aggressive Russia always wanted to enslave Ukraine, and Now, finally, it happened, you see it yourself.”
There were people who were stronger, but the same propaganda worked with them for many years, only much more primitively, in the form of television channels, in the form of media that were censored or engaged in self-censorship. And gradually in their heads, whether you like it or not, these patterns form,” summed up Zaborin.
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