Title: What did Russian citizens during the Cold War think about America? Why? - Quora
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What did Russian citizens during the Cold War think about America? Why?
Dima Vorobiev

Content: Meanwhile, this Russian people’s perception is wrong: Only 4 percent of Americans have attitude of this kind, as demonstrated in the public opinion poll conducted by Clark, Martire, Bartolomeo and Shulman company in 2003, shortly before the visit of President Putin to the United States (simultaneously with the VTSIOM poll). Eight percent of Russians are sure that Americans consider them “stupid”. But in fact, Americans do not consider stupidity a trait of Russian people. On the contrary, 4 percent of Americans believe that the typical Russian is a well educated person. The pollsters asked Russians what kind of idea they have in mind when they hear the words “the United States of America.” Fifteen percent of the respondents said they start thinking about American foreign policy, 14 percent of respondents said they think about wealth. Speaking of American foreign policy, Russians use many negative epithets such as “aggression” and “imposing will by force”. Too few Russians (about 2 percent of the respondents) are of a very good opinion on the political system calling the United States “the country where laws work.” Three percent of Russians named the USA “an independent country,” “the country pursuing its own way of development.”