Nostalgia for the Union: The content aspect

Political scientist Alexei Makarkin writes , based on FOM data:

“From the point of view of nostalging Russians, the return of greatness will stimulate the development of the usual industries of the industrial-agrarian economy. And not the service sphere, as in recent decades, they are mainly skeptical (paradoxically using its benefits like the MFC or digital services, but at the same time believing that the state needs primarily plants and collective farms, as it was in their youth). And there, perhaps, it will come to justice, although in a modified form compared to the USSR - people do not want to nationalize shops and hairdressers.

Young people, for obvious reasons, and nostalgia much less, and consider the service economy to be normal and logical (since it itself works in it), but it is numerically a bit. In 2020, the share of Russians from 15 to 29 years old was 14.3 % of the country's population. In addition, there are a lot of youth among the latest reserves, which is also understandable. ”