Are you referring to the oft-heard assertion that Genghis is related to something like 1/4 of the Chinese population? And Putin is stuck with just this:
Or, perhaps this:
Posted on 03/22/2018 12:54:12 PM PDT by GoldenState_Rose
Russia has had to pay a demographic price for Vladimir Putin’s aggression in Ukraine and Syria amounting to 180,000 children who would have been born save for Kremlin policies.
According to Rosstat, Russian mothers gave birth to 203,000 babies fewer in 2017 than they had the year before, a decline of 10.7 percent. This year, they are on pace to give birth to 360,000 fewer than in 2017, a decline that matches those in the first post-Soviet years.
Given that marriages did not decline in number but in fact rose last year, one has to ask: What has happened with the birthrate? Why has such a sharp decline occurred?
Putin has an answer: he says it is because of the demographic waves that Russia has had to live with since the massive losses in World War II.
A longstanding staple of his regime is that the capitalism of “the wild 1990s,” by driving down birthrates, led to a more dramatic decline in the population of the Russian Federation than did even the repressions of the Stalin period.
If Putin were right, then the birthrate should have fallen in the early 2000s when the number of women began to decline rather than in 2017 when that decline began to level off.
But in 2017, the fertility rate plunged by “a catastrophic 10 percent."
Some demographers suggest that it reflects in the first instance the end of government subsidies to stimulate the birthrate; others point to the impact of the deepening socio-economic crisis in which Russia finds itself.
“Besides this,” “the social catastrophe of 2014-2016 was probably deepened by the especially aggressive foreign policy of the Kremlin carried out since the annexation of Crimea.
(Excerpt) Read more at windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com ...
And abortion in the U.S. cost 900,000.
“Russian mothers gave birth to 203,000 babies fewer in 2017”
The US produced about 360,000 fewer babies that year thanks to Planned Parenthood.
The current US birth rates are not high enough to maintain the size of the U.S. population
When baby bonuses stop, it is hardly surprising the birth rate falls.
Russia's military take-over of Crimea and the incursions into Donbass -- curtailed Russian fertility how?
Was it because the number of Russian military men who were actively engaged or on standby, means less husband-wife togetherness at home: the men were simply away and unable to sire children?
Or is it becuse military expenditures caused the Russian government to cut back on social spending, such as, as I understand it, bonuses and extra services directed to childbearing families?
Or a kind of psychological malaise, a depletion of confidence in the future, which makes people no-so-eager to bring children into this world?
What's going on here?
“Russia’s military take-over of Crimea and the incursions into Donbass — curtailed Russian fertility how?”
Exactly! The statistics in the article are interesting, but the causes the author claims? Make no sense. I think the writers ideological biases caused them to totally miss what is going on.
“Some demographers suggest that it reflects in the first instance the end of government subsidies to stimulate the birthrate; others point to the impact of the deepening socio-economic crisis in which Russia finds itself.”
Sounds a lot more plausible than foreign policy.
The only explanation that makes sense is Putin’s foreign policy caused the West to slap sanctions on Russia which caused or at least exacerbated the slumping economy in Russia. I suppose you could make a decent argument for that but the author never spelled that out. Sloppy writing.
Pooty-poo is no Genghis Khan.
Are you referring to the oft-heard assertion that Genghis is related to something like 1/4 of the Chinese population? And Putin is stuck with just this:
Or, perhaps this:
Roflol... that is a stupid article
yes, but who says we have to ‘maintain the size’ ?
Putin should support banning abortion.
Former USSR has the highest abortion rates in the world. 900,000 abortions is Russia’s current abortion rate (not counting illegal ones) - and their overall population is half that of USA. 900,000 is also a marked improvement from prior decade when abortions in Russia outnumbered births by half at times...
Yes the article is a translation of one intended for Russian audiences which already grasp the impact economic sanctions had had, and also the recession Russia was already in by the time Crimea was annexed.
The stats speak for themselves regardless about the debate over causes. Putin has had to address demographics quite often.
The was intended for a Russian audience or those already aware of the economic conditions of the country pre-Crimea and the impact sanctions have had post-Crimea.
I’m surprised that there has not yet been a veritable tsunami of Freeper males offering to travel to Russia at their own expense and do their part to help ameliorate or rectify this enormous demogaphic situation of beautiful young nubile Russian women tragically left without a bun in the oven...
Would you want to live in this pile and try to raise children?
One of the nicer apartment rooms
In the rural areas, living can be hell......
Third world country, third world problems. Welcome to Russia -still today.
And what’s the point in posting the picture of a estate bulding being demolished? Especially with the one being constructed in the backstage.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.