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Rurik Skywalker's avatar

We're going to experience a population bottleneck event.

The few people who care enough to reproduce and are smart enough to not trust vaccines and the WEF might be able to repopulate these countries eventually.

Industrial and post-industrial mass-society has been an abysmal failure. We need to bring back homesteads. It's the only way.

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Stanley Sheppard's avatar

USSR doubled its population between 1922 (the year it was formed) and 1991 (last year of the country) from 140 million to 290 million. In the post Soviet period Ukraine lost roughly 40% of the population from 52 million down to roughly 35 million, while Russia only experienced a slight decline from 148 million in 1992 to 145 million in 2022. Yet, if you read any Western sources they call Soviet regime genocidal. White is black and black is white, Orwellian "truth" is everywhere, but I'm not surprised anymore.

On Russia's current demographic crisis, the real issue is well beyond injections, healthcare and things of this nature. Talking to my relatives in Russia and Ukraine, the healthcare services, including access to medicine, are way more accessible there than they are in US and Canada where medical mafia made the situation with healthcare access and personal choice practically impossible. The issue that Russia faces today is the climate of uncertainty about the future that stops young couples from having more children. The cost of raising a child according to "material standards" imposed by society is very high, compared to income levels. Also there is a policy by construction companies to build huge condominium complexes with tiny apartments that don't promote the idea of procreation. On the positive side I hear today more and voices within Russia that recognize current problems and propose solutions. Current situation of a break-up with the West is seen as an opportunity to fix Russian economic and social crisis that will result in better demographics.

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