Posted on 09/16/2023 12:53:58 PM PDT by Rattlesnake_Snook
Alexander Demenchuk, rector of the Faculty of Political Science in Kyiv: “There is a lack of children, therefore a lack of future. Young women from the upper middle classes with excellent rates of schooling have left. And what is even more serious is that well over half of them do not intend to return to Ukraine. The children study in German, Polish, Austrian, French or Dutch schools. The mothers immediately found jobs,” writes the paper, adding: “We initially thought the European reception policy (for Ukrainian refugees) was a miracle of generosity, but it has turned out to be a curse.”
“Most of my best employees quickly found employment in Poland and France. Our industries are not working, there is a lack of market. None of them will return,” says Sergei, an entrepreneur in the IT field with offices scattered across the country.
He also tells the stories of soldiers abandoned by their wives to couple with men from other European nations.
“My wife with our two children aged 5 and 7 had left for Germany in the first days of the war. Since then, we were in contact less and less. And now I’ve discovered that she’s found a new companion,” said 40-year-old Alexei to Italian journalists. Despite the man fighting for his country near Bakhmut, he was abandoned for another man.
History repeats itself.
From the article:
“The paper says the demographic collapse goes all the way back to the time of independence in 1991, after the collapse of the Soviet Union. At that time, Ukraine’s population stood at 52 million. By 2001, it had dropped to 48.5 million, and right before the invasion, it stood at only 42 million, a fall of 10 million since 1991.
“These figures are consistent with population declines in all former Soviet republics, but the biggest blow came in the opening weeks of the war, which caused women and children to flee abroad en masse, given that the government had immediately banned the departures of men between the ages of 18 and 65. And today, the resident population is estimated at between 28 and 31 million,” writes the Italian newspaper.”
““My wife with our two children aged 5 and 7 had left for Germany in the first days of the war. Since then, we were in contact less and less. And now I’ve discovered that she’s found a new companion,” said 40-year-old Alexei to Italian journalists. Despite the man fighting for his country near Bakhmut, he was abandoned for another man.”
Their fearless leader Zelensky has vowed to fight to the last man. It is a suicide pact. The wife has made the decision to start a new life with the very real possibility that her 40 year old husband will not make it back.
While I was in Vietnam, within just a few months we started to get the Dear John letters. Wives, girlfriends, started to find new partners rapidly and it definitely had an effect on our morale.
Our XO even had a bulletin board made up so we could post their Dear Johns for everyone to read. We quickly discovered that they all had the same format and said pretty much the same thing and after a while, we realized that women are fickle, and we were all in the same boat.
When I got home, I was amazed to see what women were settling for - but it's the way of the world.
How do you say Jody in Ukrainian?
There’s a saying: “The wife will bring a date to her husband’s funeral”.
European men must be quite DESPERATE to be hooking up with Ukrainian women...but then, having met some European women, I guess I can see the situation of the men there.
I was the shoulder for a couple of military guys I knew in Iraq who received that news - via email in this day and age. I’ve never been a physical retaliation person, but I wanted to b*tch-slap the selfish women who sent those messages to their husbands while they were deployed.
I’m sorry for all of the troops in Vietnam who got those letters. So cruel and self-absorbed of those women back home to do that.
Did they use the same borders or is this the result of Russia chopping off parts?
True not good for Ukraine, but Russia is no better and probably worse. Starting with more numbers but Russian demographics has been in a free fall for decades abs is falling even faster now
Just look at average age of death for Russian men, but then again vodka ales are through the roof, esp in the front
So, the smart ones that see a devastated country, with the possibility of being ‘repatriatdd’ to Russia, are skipping town and leaving ‘Dear Ivan’ letters.
Face it, dude, she’s written you off as dead, or as good as, and taken the kids to a safer quieter future.
Mo jobs, no infraztructure, no foodstuffs in the stores, and a whackjob “with a priapus for Putin” ...I would leave as well.
HA! Good one!
It would be one thing if you were talking about a rational and decent cause..... But hoho women plainly view anybody who’d risk leaving them as widows for the sake of KKKomodimir Ichabodovich Zelensky and the nazi government in Kiev as losers
TTIUWOP’s
My US born and raised daughter spent a year in Spain after her BS degree here. She liked European boys better than American boys. She said they were more mature and more respectful. I am thankful she did not marry there and settle down there.
Here is a map that changes from pre invasion until now.
One of the points of the article is that people were already leaving Ukraine in droves even before the “invasion”. The invasion made it easier for women and children to leave. Today, the resident population is estimated at between 28 and 31 million” dropping 10 to 12 milllion since the "invasion" began.
“By 2001, it had dropped to 48.5 million, and right before the invasion, it stood at only 42 million, a fall of 10 million since 1991.”
Simple solution. Import 10 million refugees from Africa to make it as it was before.
My wife’s younger brother was engaged before he went to Nam.
She married, someone else, and let my wife’s sibling know just before he left Nam on his 2 feet to come home.
On his way from Travis AFB to SFO he was spit on.
The pilot on his return home from SFO advised the guys to wear civilian clothes and shoes. They contacted his brother who lived about 2 hours away from where they landed.
His bro brought a brown bag of civilian clothes and a pair of sneakers the returnee had left at home. The new veteran left his travel uniform on the floor in the brown paper bag.
He met his future wife about 2 weeks later at home, and they had a great marriage until she had a terminal cancer, decades later..
so the neoCON scum have committed genocide against ukrainians under the guise of helping them. sick stuff
Like, this is nothing new. Why so surprised that people will 1.) protect their children and 2.) run from stupid wars and 3.) not return to a country that’s flattened?
Again, nothing new under the sun
Oh and Zelensky is an ahole, corrupt, a little gay and will flee when he gets enough western money
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