majority of French citizens now believe that the main contribution to the victory over Nazi Germany brought the U.S.

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majority of French citizens now believe that the main contribution to the victory over Nazi Germany brought the U.S.

Сообщение DARPA » 26 июн 2014, 12:36

According to French sociologists, most French citizens now believe that the main contribution to the victory over Nazi Germany made ​​the U.S., says Slate. Meanwhile, seventy years ago, at the end of World War II, the French considered the main winner of the Soviet Union.

So who of the allies made ​​a decisive contribution to the victory over Nazi Germany? This is the question asked seventy years ago the citizens of France French Institute experts opinion (Ifop) - the oldest Public Opinion Research Center in the country, writes Slate. More recently, analysts of the Institute decided to repeat the test - and got completely different results.
As a new poll showed today 49% of French people believe that Germany was defeated in the first place through the efforts of the United States, another 23% believe the most important contribution of the USSR, and 19% - the UK, according to the material. At the same time, in 1944, the Soviet Union was considered the main winner of 61% of the French, the United States - 29.3%, and the UK - 11.5%.

Determine who actually did more than anyone to win - easy, the author stresses. "The United States came out of isolation, the Soviet Union failed to prevent the Germans win on the Eastern Front; feat was even in Britain: from the Battle of Britain, Hitler was forced to fight a war on two fronts "- he writes.

Nevertheless, the British historian Richard Overy believes that the Allies won in the first place due to the USSR. "If the main strategic goal was the defeat of the German army, the main theater where this goal is achieved, was the Eastern Front. That there has been weakened, and later - put to flight the German army, and the bulk of both ground and air forces of the Allies arrived later, in 1944, "he said in an interview with one of the French editions.

However, in the public mind of the French meaning of the Soviet feat yet faded - that seems even more surprising when you consider how accessible has become in our time "reliable information," the author notes.

But what is this related "inversion" of public opinion in France? According to the author, one of the main reasons is the deplorable state of the French Communist Party, which has long been very popular with voters. "In 1945, the French were" red "- and therefore more sympathetic to the Red Army," writes columnist for Slate.

In addition, the opinion of French citizens influence and the fact that many of them confuse the two concepts: "the battle against the Nazis and the restoration of France" after the war, says the journalist. In 1945 69% of French people believed that the U.S. will play in rebuilding the country more important than the Soviet Union - the Cold War and in fact at that time had not yet begun, and public opinion did not affect the tension between the two superpowers.
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