Over 70 percent of Czechs are happy with their quality of life after the
Velvet Revolution, suggests a survey carried out by the polling agency
STEM. That figure is nine percent higher than in 2009.
According to the survey, people appreciate the possibilities that opened up
after the fall of the Communist regime, such as quality education and
better services and shopping choices, as well as the right to vote in free
elections and express their own opinion freely.
On the other hand, more than three fifths of respondents criticised the
moral state of Czech society, financial disparities, and bad interpersonal
relationships. Most people addressed in the survey also welcome the
foundation of an independent Czech state and the Czech Republic’s entry
to the EU and NATO.