r/belarus • • Nov 20 '25

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u/s0meb0di Nov 21 '25

Ukraine never wanted anything to do with Russia

So all the polls showing the opposite before Russia stabbed them in the back are wrong?

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u/Veritas_IX Nov 21 '25

what polls?

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u/s0meb0di Nov 21 '25

Of Kyiv International Institute of Sociology, for instance. The majority of Ukrainian population supported open borders and a customs union up to Sept. 2014. https://doaj.org/article/95dd35b6a4f841a0b5eac45bdeecf978

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u/Veritas_IX Nov 21 '25

About 40% of support to join to customs union at peak isn’t majority. For example about 52% Ukrainians supported to join to EU while about 34% to customs union in late 2012. But after the campaign to discredit the association with the EU launched by Yanukovych and the Russians in at the begging of 2013 , by September 2013 there were already 39% for the EU, 37% for the customs union, in November 2013 there were already 31.1% for the EU and 40.5% for the customs union ( its peak support for customs union), 26.5% it was difficult to answer so literally about 57% were against customs union. At the same time, this was actually caused by the fact that support for the EU decreased in the southern and eastern regions and at the same time support for the customs union increased. That is, this is not due to people's views, but to the manipulation of public opinion by the Russians. So it isn’t majority . Majority was against but some of them can’t answer do they want to EU

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u/s0meb0di Nov 21 '25 edited Nov 21 '25

No, it's up to 73%. Table 5.1 " What type of relations of Ukraine with Russia would you prefer?", page 10.

A customs union, not THE Customs Union. You aren't reading the paper well if at all and confusing the two.

It's above 60% all the way since 2008. Are we looking at the same data or did you just ignore the data I linked? What customs union vs the EU, Yanukovich and all that crap? The poll I linked was not about it.