Japan has a lot of unease underneath the surface hence their low birth rates and impending demographic crisis. Not to mention high suicide rate. And the economy is less vibrant than Germany’s. And South Korea has outpaced them in tech sector.
I am tired of the Putinist sensationalism of the Muslim issue. Russia has the worst birth rates of all, largest Muslim population Europe, and the Muslims there do NOT have a birth rate problem. (Or alcoholism, or HIV, or abortion, or the mortality issues which are getting better but have ravaged ethnic Russians for decades.)
And you can bet ethnic Russia’s problem has a whole hell of a lot to do with properly confronting the traumas of their past and addressing Soviet atrocities.
Today Stalin is popular again. Russia’s economy is in stagnation. And Putin is set to be ruled longer than even Stalin was with no semblance of any functioning legal or democratic apparatuses/institutions to leave behind as a legacy.
I don’t know what Russia has to do with my comment...that’s YOUR PROBLEM.