What terrible event happened in the beginning of 90s?
What terrible event happened in the beginning of 90s?
What terrible event happened in the beginning of 90s?
Freedom and democracy, obviously.
The fertility rate of Soviet Russia? - I'm not really sure if this is just looking at the RSFSR or all of the USSR for the historical data - was also stable around replacement rate before the collapse. So it's pretty clearly the fault of the collapse.
I believe the charts presented by you are for Russia only, though they may be quite representative for the rest of USSR. BTW, in Poland, we wish to have the fertility like 1.8 :) It is dramatically low, like 1.2 something, mainly because of ultraconservative government and neoliberal disaster in the home market.
The collapse of birth rates in capitalist economies is really worrying, but the only people that talk about it are tradcath and neoliberal freaks so I always feel weird bringing it up... 1.8 is still below the 2.1 replacement rate, although I think socialist countries will be able to gracefully shrink their population. Anyway, it's insane to think that capitalism has become such a fetter to human development that it can now no longer even reproduce the human species. Although to be honest I'm a little confused why this is occurring now but not a century earlier. Regardless, the obvious solution to me is the socialization of the domestic sphere of life. Social housing, childcare, healthcare, cooking, etc.
Oh BTW is the population crisis in Poland made worse by emigration to higher-income countries? Has that reversed due to Brexit? I haven't been keeping up.
Calling Adrian Zenz
Neoliberalism happened