It is Interesting

The Public Opinion Foundation. Russia-wide poll of urban and rural populations. February 10, 2008. 1500 respondents.

This open-ended question was recently asked of respondents on the day before Valentine's Day. 78% of those surveyed agreed to try and answer it.

Russians most often gave definitions such as "a great feeling," something "high, light, and beautiful," "a high feeling, that is indescribable in words," "when your soul is singing and the heart is high" - 22%.

For 11% of those surveyed, love first of all is full understanding ("reciprocal understanding," "when you are understood"), and for 9%, it is responsibility.

According to 6% of respondents, love means family, children, and warm relations between close relatives ("this is the basis of life, love towards children, parents, and your husband"). The same share of respondents called love "the most important part of life," "the main feeling," the backbone of human life ("everything is based on love, there is no happiness without love," "if there is no love, then life has lost its meaning") - 5%.

5% of those surveyed said that «love» means confidence ("full confidence in each other").

3% of respondents determined that love is a thoughtful and solicitous attitude towards people ("an unselfish concern for humanity").

In addition, some respondents mentioned words such as faith, loyalty, strong affection, self-sacrifice, and the desire to be together (6%).

4% of Russians don't believe in the existence of love. And even if they admit the existence of love, they think it brings only suffering: "this is an excruciating idea, there is no love," " discouragement," "hell," "I don't believe in love, this idea was given for young people."

Some respondents (1%) gave ironical definitions of love: "as illness, but sometimes enjoyable," "men invented love, so they don't have to pay money," "the meeting of two crazy people with a raised temperature."

We should note that in the poll, only Russians over 18 were asked the question. The share of respondents under 35 was 33% of all those surveyed; the share of those from 36 to 50 was 32%, and those over 50 years made up 35%. Although a famous poet wrote: "Love is dutiful to all ages," middle-aged and elderly people did not give the romantic definitions of love that predominated in the answers of Russians in generall.

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