Soviet Union could have emerged victorious in war without allies, say majority of Russians

Moscow, May 4 – More than half of Russians (66%) believe that the Soviet Union would have won the Great Patriotic War without the help of the Allies, according to the results of a survey by the All-Russian Center for Public Opinion Research, available to the News Agency.

When asked if the USSR would have won the Great Patriotic War without the help of the Allies, 66% answered in the affirmative, 25% – in the negative, and 9% found it difficult to answer.

All-Russian telephone survey “VTsIOM-Sputnik” was conducted on April 23, 2023. The survey included 1.6 thousand Russians over the age of 18. The survey method is a telephone interview based on a stratified random sample drawn from a complete list of mobile phone numbers used on the territory of the Russian Federation. Data is weighted by sociodemographic criteria. The marginal error with a probability of 95% does not exceed 2.5%.