40% OF MUSCOVITES DON'T KNOW WHAT HOLOCAUST WAS

Poll: Russians don’t know much about the Holocaust
Four out of ten Muscovites aren’t sure what the Holocaust was, according to a new public opinion survey. Fifty-seven percent of respondents said they knew what the Holocaust was, 15 percent had heard the term but weren’t sure what exactly it meant and 28 percent did not know what the Holocaust was.

The survey of 300 Muscovites, conducted in late February by the polling firm Politech, was released this week. The study was commissioned by the Moscow Bureau on Human Rights and the Holocaust Foundation, a research and education group based in Moscow. Of those with a college degree, 67 percent said they knew what the Holocaust was, compared to 35 percent of those with only a high school diploma. No margin of error was reported.