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Public Opinion on Post-War Transfer of Sudeten Germans and Benes Decrees - November 2016

In November survey Public Opinion Research Centre asked respondents some questions concerning decrees of the President Edvard Benes.

Currently 43% respondents share the opinion that Benes decrees should continue to be in force, 12% stood up for their cancellation, and 45% had no opinion on this issue. Another question focused on the post-war transfer of Sudeten Germans from Czech borderland in 1945-6. 37% of respondents considered this historical act to be just. On the contrary 38% marked the transfer as unjust (simultaneously majority of them claimed necessity to make a thick line behind the past) and 25 % had no opinion on this.

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