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42.6 percent of the respondents said people were better off under the Communist regime before 1989 than now, while 32.1 percent said life is better at present in a poll conducted by the Focus agency in April and released today.<\/span><\/p>\n

The poll was commissioned by the M. R. Stefanik Institute NGO.<\/span><\/p>\n

The researchers said in 2001, the gap between the two camps had been even bigger.<\/span><\/p>\n

At that time, life under the Communist regime was preferred by 61.9 percent, while the opposite view was only held by 12.8 percent.<\/span><\/p>\n

In the past years, the living standards were rising as the average wage increased and the jobless rate fell to the record low.<\/span><\/p>\n

The nostalgia for the life before 1989 is bigger among the elderly, those with a low education and unskilled workers.<\/span><\/p>\n

These are mainly the voters of the governing Smer-Social Democracy and the Slovak National Party.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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