Whenever I see opinion poll maps on :reddit-logo: from Europe with questions like

  • Would you be ok with your son/daughter dating a person of a different race?

  • Would you be comfortable with your son/daughter dating a member of the same sex?

  • My country has too many immigrants, yes or no?

There is always a very noticeable difference between Western and Eastern Europe, with the West (and Scandanavia) being WAY more progressive, and Eastern European / former Soviet states being exceedingly conservative, particularly countries like Czech.

Why is this?

Maybe I'm just naive but I would think that the legacy of the USSR would cause the exact opposite tendency.

I also have no real context as I have never stepped foot in The Old World.

  • Eldungeon [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    Basically you have the USSR of the 1980s , the worst neoliberalism of the 1990s , the fallout of that adding to the social conservativism of the old Warsaw pact countries. The brandonization of the old European communist parties correlated with that of left parties globally and of a leftist horizon in general, revolution foreclosed and official left parties pressing the vilest neoliberalism. Now all that can be done is to rally a nonexistent left into electoral opposition in the face of its own complacency and the rights own cravenly attempts to rebuttal. The left must reconcile its differences before it can do otherwise