Russia faces a shrinking and aging population and tries restrictive laws to combat it (abcnews.go.com)
from throws_lemy@lemmy.nz to world@lemmy.world on 25 Oct 09:42
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aeronmelon@lemmy.world on 25 Oct 09:46 next collapse

I think something else is causing a depopulation problem in Russia right now.

leriotdelac@lemmy.zip on 25 Oct 09:51 next collapse

What could that be, I wonder?.. Ah, I know, might be all those working and studying women that abandon their sacred duty to repopulate the Motherland. Definitely not the trenches in foreign countries where the men are dying…

Edit: typos.

TheReanuKeeves@lemmy.world on 25 Oct 10:11 collapse

Nah bro, it’s all the birth control chemicals women are pissing out and then that water gets recycled, drank by the men, turning them into little soyboy cucks that can’t get their little putin up unless they’re watching those androgynous kpop boy bands

Zerlyna@lemmy.world on 25 Oct 10:18 collapse

That’s an interesting theory, I give you that.

TheReanuKeeves@lemmy.world on 25 Oct 10:29 collapse

I recommend everyone wears a lead helmet as much as possible to stop the 5G and radiowaves from turning your brain into mashed potatoes

Eheran@lemmy.world on 25 Oct 12:10 collapse

Wait, lead? I thought aluminum?!?! Faaack

peoplebeproblems@midwest.social on 25 Oct 12:12 collapse

It’s too late for you man.

wewbull@feddit.uk on 25 Oct 13:01 next collapse

Headline isn’t wrong though. Population is definitely getting smaller, and it’s the young dying.

shalafi@lemmy.world on 25 Oct 16:35 collapse

Depopulation was an issue a decade or more before the war. Which makes the meat grinder even harder to understand.

tonytins@pawb.social on 25 Oct 11:47 next collapse

For someone so keen on getting Russia back to the “golden age,” maybe Putin should have put more effort on listening to the people.

sukhmel@programming.dev on 25 Oct 22:15 collapse

Nah, he should’ve just outlaw being unhappy, so that everyone would be happy

Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca on 25 Oct 12:08 next collapse

He only cares about more meat for the meat grinder.

TotallynotJessica@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 25 Oct 14:14 next collapse

Let’s be real, that’s the logic of most world leaders

shalafi@lemmy.world on 25 Oct 16:34 collapse

Depopulation has been an issue in Russia for some time. At one point they created a holiday for everyone to stay home from work and fuck, though I think that was a regional thing.

I would love to halve the human population, but the economic situation is going to be horrific for decades as we figure out how to adjust.

Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works on 25 Oct 12:47 next collapse

Don’t hunt what you can’t kill

Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world on 25 Oct 12:54 next collapse

Restrictive laws to try to force the population to have more children… Where have we seen this before?

Hupf@feddit.org on 25 Oct 14:49 collapse
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip on 25 Oct 13:45 next collapse

That’s a big flat surface.

ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com on 25 Oct 13:50 next collapse

Not a problem unique to Russia, but they could help themselves by not getting hundreds of thousands of Russians killed in pointless wars.

theoriginalcows@lemmings.world on 25 Oct 14:59 next collapse

It is interesting to think about how all the resources spent attacking Ukraine could’ve been spent improving life for the every day Russian.

They would probably be a lot happier.

Doomsider@lemmy.world on 25 Oct 16:10 collapse

If every country invested in the health and education of their people instead of their military there would be no need for war to begin with.

Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works on 25 Oct 21:16 collapse

What do you think Putin wants a young population for?

5in1k@lemmy.zip on 25 Oct 14:12 next collapse

In Russia it is illegal to grow old.

Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works on 25 Oct 21:19 collapse

I’m curious how far would an authoritarian country go to improve birth rates.

Unless they go full evil, you can’t really force people to have kids when they really don’t want to.

ProbablyBaysean@lemmy.ca on 25 Oct 22:58 collapse

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decree_770?wprov=sfla1

I beg to differ, and i dont consider altering sex ed to be full evil. When people have a lot of money and power and political influence they can do some bad unethical things. Things like requiring “the correct race” to breed and “the incorrect race” to have forced military drafts and mobilizations. It’s right now easier for other immediate goals to … not go that route yet. Let the robots and automation catch up to the depopulation is my guess.