November 7 - As the international working class celebrates the 92nd anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution of 1917 which brought about the world's first ever proletarian workers' state in Russia, a recent poll by the Pew Research Center shows that popular support for capitalism and bourgeois democracy in the former Soviet Socialist Republics and Socialist Republics of Eastern/Central Europe has reached an all time low.

In the twenty years since the 1989 counter-revolution, brought about by the treasonous policies of the rogue leadership of the traitor Mikhail Gorbachev and his clique of counter-revolutionary liberals, working people have suffered countless let-downs and disappointments following a massive privatization campaign, whose impacts are traceable to the current social, economic and political ills plaguing the former socialist camp.

According to poll's findings, an "overwhelming majority" of Russians now look at the fall of the Soviet Union as a "great misfortune," with as many as 47 per cent saying they would "strongly support" the socialization of Russia's economy.

Similar trends were seen in the former Ukrainian SSR, which showed the most dramatic transformation in public opinion. According to the Pew Research Center's findings, support for bourgeois democracy and the capitalist system had dropped by 42 per cent; with less than a third of the population polled indicating a favorable attitude towards the changes in Ukraine's politico-economic base in the wake of the 1989 counter-revolution.

Other notable trends indicating a significant drop in support for the bourgeois mythos of "democracy and capitalism" were seen in Bulgaria (24 per cent), Lithuania (20 per cent) and Hungary (18 per cent).

Source: Agence France Presse (AFP)