Russia stares into population abyss as Putin sends its young men to die
Russia stares into population abyss as Putin sends its young men to die
Sending waves of soldiers onto the battlefield, compounded by emigration, will hasten Russia's birth rate decline
Note: This is from last year. The numbers are much higher now. Ukraine puts the number of dead Russian soldiers at 376,030. The US says it's 315,000 personnel.
Either way, if those numbers are anywhere close to the trugh, then Russia has already lost ~50% of the personnel that the entire Soviet Union lost in its 9 year-long invasion of Afghanistan. And the fallout of the war in Afghanistan contributed a lot to the fall of the Soviet Union.
Assuming there's 20M Russians aged 20-44 (4M/slice of 5 years), that's around 2%. Low enough to hide it from most.
That's what the Soviet leaders back in the day probably thought too.
I ddg russian population 2023 and got this from world-o-meter: "9th Russia 144,444,359(estimated population) -0.19%(change) -268,955(net)"
Until they have to mobilize the more dense populated area, it's just a number game for them I guess.
Oh, and compare to Ukraine, it's pretty dark.
"41th Ukraine 36,744,634 -7.45 % -2,957,105" in the later column, Migrant listed as 1,784,718 assuming fled the war. so should be part of that -2.9m decline number. I don't know what happened to the other 1.2m.
Amazing how one person can cause so much death and the citizens don't rise.
Loads of people are dying because of political decisions in other countries too and you rarely see uprisings, only difference is that in Russia the cause of the deaths is more obvious
Sadly, he's far from being the first, and I'm sure he won't be the last.
He’s pulling conscripts from rural areas now. When he runs out of those, and turns to the cities, it may be a different situation.
Imagine how much better the world would be if every dictator's personal guard dragged them out into the street and handed them to mob justice...
I've set my city to Moscow on Tinder and have been cleaning up
I find the numbers in the article odd. 30 000 fled to Finland based on it, and that's actually the amount of Russian nationals in Finland now. (80 000 Russian speaking). It's as if there were 0 before the war, which cannot be true.
Nowt new here, Putin doesn't give a shit about anyone but himself. If it takes the entire population of Russia that's a rice he's willing to pay to be in power, he knows the moment he's not at the top he's dead.