Russian President Vladimir Putin is urging Russians to have more children.
"Large families must become the norm," Putin said in a speech Tuesday.
Russian birth rates are falling amid war in Ukraine and a deepening economic crisis.
Russian President Vladimir Putin is urging women to have as many as eight children as the number of dead Russian soldiers continues to rise in his war with Ukraine, worsening the country’s population crisis.
Addressing the World Russian People’s Council in Moscow on Tuesday, Putin said the country must return to a time when large families were the norm.
“Many of our grandmothers and great-grandmothers, had seven, eight, or even more children,” Putin said.
The problem is under a dictatorship no one can really tell you things are bad, until that problem boils over into another generals line of authority.
Which for Russia, they are finding out, that even if they win this war, they will have to scale down production because they won’t have the manpower for that production in 20 years
Which means even if they can hold Crimea, they won’t have the production to work Crimea as well as the Ukrainians.
Thing is: Ukraine cannot work Crimea like it used to either because they face the same, gruesome problem
Terrible, but least they can hope for some kind of help after the war. They’re not an international pariah like Russia is.
The gruesome problem keeping Ukraine from working crimea is the Russian state’s insistence on wiping Ukraine off the map. It’s been 100 years of subjugation at best.