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Public Opinion about Transfer of Sudet-German and about President Benes Decrees

In December survey CVVM asked respondents some questions about Benes decrees.

Currently 50 % respondents share the opinion that Benes Decrees should continue to be in force, 14 % stood up for their cancellation, and 36 % had no opinion on this issue.

Another question posed was about the expulsion of Sudet-Germain people from Czech borderland in 1945-6.

n December survey CVVM asked respondents some questions about Benes decrees.

Currently 50 % respondents share the opinion that Benes Decrees should continue to be in force, 14 % stood up for their cancellation, and 36 % had no opinion on this issue.

Another question posed was about the expulsion of Sudet-Germain people from Czech borderland in 1945-6.

Half of respondents (50 %) considered this historical act to be just. On the contrary 36 % marked expulsion as an unjust (simultaneously majority of them claimed necessity to make a thick line behind the past) and 24 % had no opinion on this.

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