Dmitry Medvedev. File photoMOSCOW, Jan 28 Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev explained not the highest rates of vaccination against coronavirus in Russia by the fact that a whole generation of people has grown up in the country who are accustomed to the idea that vaccination is a thing optional, the problem of medicine of the «nineties» is to blame for everything. «In Soviet times, which I never tire of reminding those who do not remember them, there really was mandatory vaccination, and no one had any doubts: if you need to be vaccinated against measles or polio, then this must be done, because it is impossible to live without it… But now there is no such understanding. Now someone has a feeling that this is being imposed by the state, that these are some kind of experiments, chipping, coding, some other nonsense, » Medvedev said in an interview with RIA Novosti and other leading Russian media, answering the question of why Russia is not among the world leaders in vaccination. In his opinion, this was due to the fact that in the 1990s, «vaccination practically stopped Because of poverty, because of the weakness of medicine, there was no vaccination, and a whole generation of people got the feeling that these were either some kind of experiments, or that it was simply not necessary. And this, I think, is bad. Now the task of education in this area is extremely important, just fundamentally important, so that people understand that this is really necessary,» the deputy chairman of the Security Council added. » />Medvedev spoke about relatives who doubted the importance of vaccination
