WAR SURVEY: People are afraid of the economic crisis! Just over 27% of Slovaks could fight for Slovakia – Topky.sk

As a month ago, in the current survey, respondents feel the greatest concern about rising energy prices and inflation (88.7 percent, at the turn of March and April it was 85.7 percent). Concerns about the economic crisis have also increased Slightly, concerns about the economic crisis caused by the war (from 77.5 percent to 83.6 percent). Concerns about the war in Ukraine itself have eased very slightly (from 78.2 percent to 74 percent). Concerns about the outbreak of World War III (73.6 percent) and the spread of the war to Slovakia (70.3 percent) increased very slightly. Archive VIDEO Michal Kaliňák: We can use the situation around the conflict in Ukraine A large part of the respondents are also concerned about the state of the Slovak healthcare system (81.2 percent) and the popularity of extremist and anti-system groups in Slovakia (65.8 percent). There were also growing concerns about the arrival of refugees from war-torn countries (68.8 percent) and the coronavirus pandemic (49.2 percent). Just over 27 percent of Slovaks could fight for Slovakia If there was a war in Slovakia, only 27.5 percent of respondents would be willing to fight for their country. 37.1 percent of respondents answered in the negative and 35.4 percent of people chose the “I don’t know” answer. Men (33.5 percent) would be willing to fight a little more often than women (21.7 percent), but men also answered this question in the negative more often. Men over the age of 60 are more willing to fight for Slovakia than men under the age of 40. “The very low willingness to fight for Slovakia may be related not only to low confidence in some institutions and the state, but also to a certain geopolitical divide. History is also important – in Slovakia we have no tradition of heroizing our armed forces and In the past, no major successful armed conflicts or uprisings have won, “commented sociologist Robert Klobucký of the Slovak Academy of Sciences (SAS). The fourteenth wave of the research “How are you, Slovakia?” MNFORCE company, communication agency Seesame in cooperation with the Institute of Sociology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Research with social communication SAS.