Russia is dying. The once-mighty Russian state is undergoing a catastrophic post-Soviet societal decline. Health standards are abysmal, and life expectancy in Russia is nothing like it is in the West — just age 60 for men (less than in Botswana and Madagascar) and 73 for women, roughly the same as in Saudi Arabia. Alcoholism — the scourge of Soviet society — continues to ravage the country, with a death rate among Russia’s youth that is 35 times higher than among their counterparts in Europe. So does drug addiction. According to United Nations statistics, more than a fifth of all heroin consumed globally every year occurs in Russia. Prevalent, too, is a corrosive culture of abortion, with unofficial estimates placing the number of annual abortions at 2 million to 2.5 million — close to 2 percent of the Russian Federation’s potential population.
In all, the country is contracting by close to half-a-million souls every year owing to both death and the emigration of its citizens (to Europe and beyond). At this rate, according to the Kremlin’s own estimates, Russia could lose a quarter of its population by the middle of this century. It’s a phenomenon that demographers have described as “the emptying of Russia” — a wholesale implosion of Russia’s human capital, and a collapse of its prospects as a viable modern state.
Lots of drugs, alcohol, socialized medicine, and abortion. A veritable paradise by progressive standards. And it turns out to be death by slow suicide.
In reading this article it occurs to me that there is a way to deal with the population decline, drug addiction, and alcoholism in one fell swoop, and that's to convert the entire population to Islam. Russia is mostly Christian now, but it doesn't seem to be doing them much good.eace
Well you left out Jews, Gays and Mexicans. Other than that, you seem to have managed to denigrate everybody who isn't just like you. Nice hate post otherwise.
WOW, didn't take long to play the race card.:lol:
It was done in the first post
Well you left out Jews, Gays and Mexicans. Other than that, you seem to have managed to denigrate everybody who isn't just like you. Nice hate post otherwise.
Wow. So Russia sucks because of booze, drugs, and legal abortions. Can't think of any other reasons why Russia might suck?
Not too bright, eh?
Lots of drugs, alcohol, socialized medicine, and abortion. A veritable paradise by progressive standards. And it turns out to be death by slow suicide.
In reading this article it occurs to me that there is a way to deal with the population decline, drug addiction, and alcoholism in one fell swoop, and that's to convert the entire population to Islam. Russia is mostly Christian now, but it doesn't seem to be doing them much good.eace
I am a (mostly) Pole who grew up over there, in Russia. Let's just say, such beginnings do not usually lead to verdant blooming of sympathy toward the place and the people. If I had to name one instance where I come close to bigotry, that would be it.
But come on. Russians had suffered the very worst of what the very worst century in human history had to offer. Virtually every family had lost someone (usually more than one) to the Communist terror and then again - someone else to the War. Most productive classes had been exterminated or pushed into exile; the rest of the people had been trained for three generations, like Pavlovian dogs, to fear everything we consider good and normal, and to embrace obvious lies and pathological violence, as a condition of survival.
The wounds are deep, festering, and may never, ever heal. It is a great wonder and testimony of Russians' incredible resilience that the country is doing as well as it does, instead of turning into a cold, pale version of Congo.
"Drugs, alcohol, socialized medicine, and abortion"? Gimme a break.
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