Russia No. 1 in Anti-Americanism?

[peacetraveler22]

Today The Moscow Times published an interesting article entitled Why Russia Is No. 1 in Anti-Americanism. The article summarizes the results of a recent Gallup International poll where approximately 70,000 residents in 65 countries were asked "Who is the greatest threat to world peace?" 24% of worldwide respondents answered "America", but Russia exceeded the global response by more than double, with 54% of Russians choosing America.

Conversely, only 2% of Americans in the Gallup poll think Russia is a threat to global peace. I've mentioned before that Russia doesn't dominate American news, nor do most Americans spend any time thinking about the country at all. A rare exception recently due to the Olympic Games being held in the country. I don't know how powerful state controlled propaganda is in Russia because my knowledge of the language isn't proficient enough to watch these broadcasts. Honestly, a lot of faith and reliance should not be placed on such polls because they are always skewed in some manner. Russian bloggers like fritzmorgen, a master at statistics and anti-Western data, could probably search the Internet and find polls which say the opposite - that Americans don't trust Russia, etc. The article also indicates that another Gallup poll asked Russians the following question: "If there were no barriers to living in any country in the world, which country would you live in?" The number one answer amongst Russians? "America." Thus, the two polls seem diametrically opposed.

If you have time, take a look at the article. It's worth a read. Pleasant weekend to all! Next week we'll continue with more stories from Tennessee.

Comments

[yacc11.livejournal.com]

US Army is controlled by the Goverment. As I can see many of Americans does not like Goverment as well :)

[---tais.livejournal.com]

Hi!
I live in Russia and I think, that USA is the greatest threat to world peace. It is my opinion. I do not watch TV. But I think that Americans politics is very aggressive. I tell about Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Yugoslavia.

[orangetreedizzy.livejournal.com]

What the hell do you read The Moscow Time?
You'd better read comics - there are much more pics...))))

[new-forester.livejournal.com]

America became the world's only "cop", for better or for worse. So, naturally, people don't like cops, because they tend to show up and issue tickets. But - whom do people call when there is trouble? Right - the cops. So, there is no contradiction in the poll results.

[nar-row.livejournal.com]

The author think about this opinion as a result of anti-american campaign. Yes, there's some anti-amercanism inspirated by Kremlin (I would say, almost all of it is nothing more than words). But if some of viewpoints of Russian citizens are stupid (and I think some of them are), does it mean, that it has not been generated by something real? I don't think so. After all, "24 percent of respondents worldwide" had not been propagandized by Kremlin. :) And I don't think, that respondents in the first and second poll were the same, so I don't see something strange in this result.

[amtex.livejournal.com]

Putin's anti-Americanism comes from his believes that America is the only real threat to his way of power, the way he, and his apparent followers, will control the power in Russia and safeguard his personal future once or if he retires. This is the future of a person who did so much harm and damage to Russian people, to its moral benchmarks and the country itself. He turned Russia's moral standards to the once of people of cage ages where they are in fight all the time and consider everything around them hostile to them. He truly believes that honesty, integrity and people's power are irrelevant and unnecessary matter of politics; he thinks that American or in general West politicians who believes in those values are either idiots or hypocritical just like himself. Also he has so much ambitious and is full of impudence to think that he can spread his type of values around the world.

[general-denikin.livejournal.com]

Once again we can see Russia is the country populated with the people who fails to use their own brains, who hates the freedom and civil rights . They, russians, prefer to rely on their government advices and orders much more than on the rule of law and human dignity. I'm utterly disgusted how russians treat their neighbors ukranians who tried to relieve themselves from oppression of the thievish power the clique of president Yanukovich.

[maxreiher.livejournal.com]

"greatest threat to world peace"...

please... what's kind of world do you mean? :-)

[qi-tronic.livejournal.com]

The short answer: "Because it's true" :)

BTW I remember that there was a period when Russians were very positive towards America.
It's was just after Gorbachev and Reagan ended the Cold War.
Everybody were tired of this war.

But then more and more evidence started to emerge that America thinks that they sort of have won that war (not just peacefully ended it by mutual agreement).
When Clinton attacked Yugoslavia to cover his affairs with Monica the attidude in Russia radically changed.

[a-nimaida.livejournal.com]

все всё по фиг, в самом деле)

[anonymus.livejournal.com]

You simply misunderstand russian people. "Greatest threat" for us means "the Best". Having the largest army, the biggest power, the most courageous and strong. It`s a compliment for you :)

[yarowind.livejournal.com]

>>Russia No. 1 in Anti-Americanism?

Really even in Syria and Iran is more like the U.S. :)

[notabler.livejournal.com]

http://www.gazeta.ru/comments/column/novoprudsky/5863193.shtml This article trying to explain why Russians are so over saturated with hatred. It is all over in the air. Have you try to compare comments in US and Russian web-sites? I did - with UK sources. The difference is terrific. They pour out their hatred even in case of somebody's death. So no wonder that US is kind of valve where they can pour out hatred and jealousy (most of them would be happy to move to US). It's a result of recent situation and policy in the country, heavy Gebbels-style propaganda.

[sergechel.livejournal.com]

Anti-americanism is an old-time soviet tradition, totally refreshed by Putin. it is easy to explain every fail by pointing on "evil" America and "gay" Europe.

[moonrainbow.livejournal.com]

I would probably partially disappoint American journalists since I believe that the greatest threat to world peace as of now is radical Islamic groups.

But America is easily the second greatest threat, because I can't miss the fact that America is quick at defining someone an enemy and solving the problem with this enemy by military force. Sometimes it looks like scenes from movies about superheros: you always know that Americans are good guys, and somewhere in the world there are good guys who need support, and bad guys who need to be eliminated. Reality is different, but who cares about the reality in the world of motion pictures? To my relief, Obama understands reality a lot better than a stereotypical McCain and is not so happy to send troops and air carriers to assist "good guys" against "bad guys".

But there is still a risk of having another McCain who didn't have enough military games when he was young. That's why the threat exists.

And yet, if I had to choose between America ruling the world and Saudi Arabia ruling the world, I would support America with no doubt.

[white-walker.livejournal.com]

http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/patrick-goodenough/and-country-posing-greatest-threat-peace-2013-ends
In this article there are more numbers, and as we can see, there are many other countries who see US as great threat. Suprisingly Greece has 45%. So I think propoganda in Russia gives probably about 10% from 53%.
I'm not anti-American but I also think that US is main threat. Other countries can invade just neighbours, US can invade in any not enough strong country across the globe. Also we can see a number of wars involving USA in recent years.

off.

[morwen-russe.livejournal.com]

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[atlantis555.livejournal.com]

На, получай:



:---)))

[karakal.livejournal.com]

Seems most Russians would - if options are offered - live in a country that presents the greatest threat to world peace.

I'm joking. But it's a half joke. And the key word here is half.

[grenfish.livejournal.com]

It's like two families feud. Adults blame each other. Children believe in the word. Presidents play Monopoly... Someone threw back at _ moves ago.

Russia No. 1 in Anti-Americanism?

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[takoynickzanyat.livejournal.com]

External is mixed up with internal here.

America is a great place to live as government takes care about american people(internal). There are some weak points like medical insurance system but there is no ideal country in the world.

The wars that US starts is the reason of suffering of people in other countries. Its outside US boarders (external). Propaganda? Ask Serbians.

So there is no contradiction.

[geoscholar.livejournal.com]

Polls don't tell everything. A few things to consider. Who wrote the polls? How were the polls written? Who answered those polls? Who is the target audience? Where are these polls being found?

США - друг человека

[andrey-kaminsky.livejournal.com]

I have no negative feelings toward the US, but have a claim. Once the United States were an example, a model for the rest of the world. People have an example to follow to make life better in their own countries. Now it is obvious that humanity can not indefinitely consume, society must change and we need to preserve the planet for future generations. The world needs a leader, but there is no leader:(