Citizens of the biggest of NATO member states are still hostile to the leaders of countries who were their opponents in the Cold War. This was written on Tuesday influential publication The New York Times, referring to a recent survey of residents of the United States, Britain, France, Germany, Italy and Spain.

The biggest cause of ill-will from Fidel Castro – said publication.

second place with a small margin, took Vladimir Putin. Very bad or very bad impression on many of the representatives of the West produce Chinese President Hu Jintao and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. From the Western leaders negative rating higher than 50% received only the Prime Minister of Italy Silvio Berlusconi.

negative rating is often more important than rights, and stronger than the positive, – said the publication, stressing that Barak Obama did not approve of only 9% of respondents. In this respect, it just ahead of the Dalai Lama, to whom abuse are only 7%. But a negative rating of Pope Benedict XVI – at the level of Hu and D. Medvedev (42%) – Notes publication.