2024-01-31 06:37:00
■ Host: Anchor Oh Dong-gun
■ Appearance: Kang Yoon-hee, Professor of Eurasian Studies at Kookmin University
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◇Anchor> And if you do a public opinion poll of the Russian people, the approval rating is 80%. I wonder if this was always maintained at 80%. How can it be this high?
◆Kang Yoon-hee> Putin’s approval rating is quite high. He maintained an incomparably high standard if he were to be compared to other leaders around the world. Even when popularity dropped, it only dropped by more than 50%. So, there are times when it drops to close to 60%, but overall, the approval rating is high, averaging between 70 and 80. In particular, after this war broke out, the West expected that Putin’s approval rating would decline and antipathy toward Putin would increase, but this is what actually happened. The people are actively supporting Putin, leading to an approval rating of 80%.
◇Anchor> Why is that so? Now anyway, young Russians are losing their lives on the battlefield, as are their friends, parents, families, and relatives, although of course there is the special issue of war.
◆Kang Yoon-hee> First of all, this war is not called a war between Russia and Ukraine. If you call it a war, you will be arrested. So, one of the reasons for not calling it a war is that they are calling it a war that is not a general mobilization that affects all of the people, but a war that is partially accomplished. As a result, some people think that this is a war where their close relatives die or something like that. You may not feel it. In the case of new soldiers being conscripted to the battlefield, many of them are children from poor families in small and medium-sized Russian cities, and in that sense, young people who have attended universities in Russia or are in more favorable conditions are exempted. Among them, those working in IT have already gone abroad. So, there is a war going on, but Putin is managing it well. You can see it that way. Another thing you know is that in Russia, especially broadcasting, is completely controlled by the state. So, when you only see the images shown on TV, you may feel like there is no reason to be so concerned or opposed to Putin. However, I believe that the high percentage of Russian people supporting Putin cannot simply be dismissed as a sign that the Russian people have no sense of democracy. The reason is that the current situation is that Russia is at war with Western countries and Ukraine anyway. Because of this, if we do not support Putin during this national crisis, the country may be shaken. And although it may have been Putin and his group of elites who started the war, all citizens will suffer the damage, economic chaos, and other things that will be suffered when the war is lost. So, from Russia’s perspective, they are in a position where they should not lose the war, and I think the Russian people understand that.
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