The Dying Russians (she says it's from broken hearts)

NYU Review of Books blog ^ | September 2, 2014 | Masha Gessen

[Mrs. Don-o]

Family meal at a colletive farm in Ukraine
I doubt it was better in 1947.

Our son Vanya was born in the Russian Far East in 1992. The absolute, unbelievable, horrifying peak year of the Russian Abortion Holocaust.

FTA: In the seventeen years between 1992 and 2009, the Russian population declined by almost seven million people, or nearly 5 percent—a rate of loss unheard of in Europe since World War II. Moreover, much of this appears to be caused by rising mortality. By the mid-1990s, the average St. Petersburg man lived for seven fewer years than he did at the end of the Communist period; in Moscow, the dip was even greater, with death coming nearly eight years sooner.

[Mrs. Don-o]

FYI

[MeganC]

Go on YouTube or LiveLeak and watch the thousands of videos of crazy Russian drivers and Russians doing amazingly STUPID things like the man trying to steal an antenna from a 10-story building and then falling to his death.

All I can think of is that maybe M. Night Shyamalan was perhaps inspired by the Russians when he wrote ‘The Happening’. A movie where people are compulsively driven to kill themselves.

[SkyPilot]

Too many Americans harshly judge the Russians, but fail to see that their own dependence on Social Security and Medicare parallel that of the Soviet Union. FDR was a Socialist, and he succeeded in putting Millions on the government rolls.

I think an economic collapse is coming, soon. It will start in the Stock Market, and the Fed will not be able to help. The US will turn into a 3rd World nation overnight.

[Flag_This]

Boo-effin’-hoo. They’ve been the enemy of the U.S. for 100 years.

[mac_truck]

I was used to losing friends to AIDS in the United States, but this was different.

I stopped reading right there.

[JSDude1]

Freedom without Jesus=Death.

[PLMerite]

“The US will turn into a 3rd World nation overnight. “

Then it’ll get sorted out, and quick.

[PLMerite]

“People in Russia were dying suddenly and violently...”

Get on YouTube and search on ‘driving in Russia,’ it’s a wonder anyone’s still alive in that country.

[1rudeboy]

Maybe someone will chance by in order to post a topless photo of Putin to make you feel better.

[PLMerite]

” I was used to losing friends to AIDS in the United States...”

You need to get some different friends.

[Wyrd bið ful aræd]

Not quite that long.

[Gay State Conservative]

You need to get some different friends.

During my tenure in a big city ER we had many patients die of AIDS.Not a single one of them was my friend,however.

[Jonty30]

The Russians themselves have never been the enemy. Their leaders have been the enemies.

[PLMerite]

Exactly. It’s a variation of what I told a guy who said he’d lost three friends to “gun violence,” that he needed to move or get new friends.

[Jonty30]

The meaning of life has been completely stripped from the Russian heart. This is what is killing them. They were raised to value themselves in utilitarian terms.

If they are to turn things around, they have to find love for life once again.

[Lazamataz]

Ruski ludi harasho ludi. VCYO ludi harasho ludi.

[Lazamataz]

Maybe someone will chance by in order to post a topless photo of Putin to make you feel better.

Vlad no longer answers my emails.

I think he's seeing someone else.

[McGruff]

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[Lazamataz]

This is actually an interesting article, thank you. I am a student of Russia, having family that emigrated from there.

While this quote is in your text: "Family meal at a colletive farm in Ukraine. I doubt it was better in 1947." I would point out that in terms of spirit, it was better in 1947.

The poverty of spirit totally outweighs the poverty of finance. Look at America. We have plenty, but our poverty of spirit nearly crushes us.