“In Russian families, many of our grandmothers and great-grandmothers had seven or eight children, and maybe even more. We should preserve and revive these wonderful traditions. Large families should be the norm, the way of life for all peoples of Russia,”
Along with traditions such as 3-5 of those children dying before they even reach adulthood?
Of course not. Modern medicine will keep them alive. At least long enough for the frontline. Most of them will probably live well into their teens!
Next step: Polygamy. Russia has a surplus of woman compared to males because of their long tradition of meatgrinding them in the conflicts of the leader. Because of that, for many russian woman it is not easy to have a native russian life with a native russian man to create a native russian family. This leads to woman accepting domestic abuse as they are glad to not go abroad to find a man. Still, many russian woman in search for a partner to marry, are going abroad. There are Marriage-Mills in china, japan and korea that loath for young russian (western looking) woman, desperate enough to marry a foreigner to fullfill their wish to have children and a family life. So the next step for Putin might be to tell russian woman that they should share the few man he did not crippled in the meat grinder for a polygamist relationship. And the current Orthodox Patriarch Kirill will tell them “this is gods will” like the turncoat he is.
Yes, Putin, go full Hitler. Just get the fuck out of Europe.
Unless he pulls pulls out to east of the Urals, Russia will forever be geographically, if not culturally, tied to Europe
Unless he pulls pulls out to east of the Urals,
Feel free. I won’t stop them.
Crazy to hear that in 2023
Meat for the grinder.
And just like that they’re sliding back into the dark ages. Putin wants ignorant masses to exploit.
They had a chance to join the civilized world in 1917 and 1991 and failed both times. I feel bad for the average Russian. A country full of resources and land with a long history of abusive, shit head rulers.
I wonder if it’s a cultural thing, because every ruler seems to be an autocrat no matter if they call themselves Czars, Presidents, or Prime Ministers. Are Russian politicians always willing to resort to violence making those who do not politically disadvantaged?
I’m not sure, it seems like they’re just used to it.
They’ve never had democracy and many of the would-be heroes plus their genetic lineage have been stamped out.
I mean, not having women do higher education might bring up fertility rates – I don’t think that there’d a clear answer there. It’s true that fertility rates were higher during a period in time when women were in college less, but there were also a number of other societal changes that happened.
But if one doesn’t educate women, it runs the risk of cutting your GDP significantly, as it halves the size of the pool of people with higher education.
I think your problem is that you took the Kremlin at its word.
This policy isn’t meant to do anything but further subjugate women, because right-wing authoritarians generally despise feeeeeeeeemales
I mean somewhere do the new soldiers need to come from…
