Vienna takes to the streets against sanctions against Russia. There were thousands • PRESSKIT
A large number of Austrians protested in Vienna on Saturday, shouting slogans against the EU, NATO, the globalists, Chancellor Alexander Schallenberg. As a sign of resistance to the West and support for Russia, many carried Russian flags during the protest.
People from all parts of Vienna came to the protest, young and old alike joined in protesting the drop in standards and global politics that are driving Austria to ruin.
In Austria, according to a quick estimate from Statistics Austria, the August to August rate is expected to be 9.1%. According to the Austrian Energy Agency, household energies such as electricity or gas cost nearly 50% more in July than in the same month last year.
Resentment is obviously great – and compared to a previous crisis like the Crown crisis or the refugee crisis, this time there is a decisive difference: agreement on the problem itself. Because while, to stick with these examples, demonstrations and counter-arguments were formed during the Crown crisis, for example with regard to measures or mandatory vaccination, and the refugee crisis has demonstrations for and against the reception of refugees, the enemy is now common one. One is against emissions, that is, against the system.
“These are huge existential concerns”
“The political views of the protesters no longer play such an important role,” political scientist Kathrin Stainer-Hämmerle told the Wiener Zeitung. “It doesn’t matter if it’s the objective situation or their subjective feeling.” Politologist Barbara Prainsack of the University of Vienna adds: “These are enormous existential concerns that reach up to the middle class and sometimes even to once privileged groups.” Neither the topic nor the protest are heterogeneous.
“With the fear of existence and the fear of a loss of prosperity, the potential for protest is growing massively,” sums up democracy advisor Tamara Ehs, who is currently doing research at the University of Frankfurt. In addition, “confidence in the state is at its lowest”. According to the “Austrian Democracy Monitor” of the social research institute Sora, 20 percent of people in the third lowest income also went to parliament the previous year. Even in the middle and upper classes it was only about half. “Most of all I hit it now it has hit the middle class extremely too – and therefore most of the population,” says Ehs
According to forecasts, therefore, the percentage of people demonstrating in Austria will increase. According to the European Social Survey, it was around seven percent per year, according to EHS it will now be between ten and twelve percent.
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