Sixty-six percent of Russians believe in a group of people who are trying to rewrite Russian history. Almost three-fourths (72%) of respondents aged 45-59 and respondents aged 60 and older said so.

Sixty-five percent of respondents aged 35-44, 56% of respondents aged 25-34, and 51% of the respondents aged 18-24 agree, as do 66% percent of respondents who are studying at universities and have university degrees.

Twenty-six percent of Russians do not believe that such a group of historians exists and say that researchers who revise understandings of historical events do so because they "want to learn the truth."

Almost half (47%) of respondents aged 18-24 have this opinion.

Sixty-three percent said they believe in the existence of an organization that is looking to destroy Russians' spiritual values. This percentage is higher among respondents aged 45-59 (69%) and people with vocational degrees (67%).

Almost one-fourth of Russians (24%) have the opposite opinion.

"It is quite obvious that 'there is a group of people' who want to revise traditional values and rewrite history. And it is mainly the case in the collective 'West,' from where we are only hearing echoes of these attempts. Just take the depressing popularity of the extremely bad products of 'Western culture,' various pseudohistorical opuses in our country from just 15-20 years ago," Oleg Chernozub, the head of VCIOM's monitoring studies, was quoted as saying by VCIOM's press service.

"Against this background, our results show that public consciousness is becoming more critical on this issue. If you understand that this 'group of people' is united not so much by organizational as by ideological ties, then this doesn't even come close to a 'conspiracy theory," Chernozub said.

VCIOM polled 2,000 adults on May 29-30.

Source: Interfax-religion.com