What’s interesting is that he has expressed these ideas for a long time.
Will Schryver@imetatronink · Mar 2
How does one become the arch-enemy of the elite thought-shapers of 21st century western civilization? By saying things like this:
“We can see how many of the Euro-Atlantic countries are actually rejecting their roots, including the Christian values that constitute the basis of Western civilization. They are denying moral principles and all traditional identities: national, cultural, religious and even sexual. They are implementing policies that equate large families with same-sex partnerships; belief in God with the belief in Satan.
“The excesses of political correctness have reached the point where people are seriously talking about registering political parties whose aim is to promote paedophilia. People in many European countries are embarrassed or afraid to talk about their religious affiliations. Holidays are abolished or even called something different; their essence is hidden away, as is their moral foundation.
And people are aggressively trying to export this model all over the world. I am convinced that this opens a direct path to degradation and primitivism, resulting in a profound demographic and moral crisis.
“What else but the loss of the ability to self-reproduce could act as the greatest testimony of the moral crisis facing a human society? Today almost all developed nations are no longer able to reproduce themselves, even with the help of migration. Without the values embedded in Christianity and other world religions, without the standards of morality that have taken shape over millennia, people will inevitably lose their human dignity. We consider it natural and right to defend these values. One must respect every minority’s right to be different, but the rights of the majority must not be put into question.”
- Vladimir Putin, 2013
“Without the values embedded in Christianity and other world religions, without the standards of morality that have taken shape over millennia, people will inevitably lose their human dignity.”
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“What else but the loss of the ability to self-reproduce could act as the greatest testimony of the moral crisis facing a human society? Today almost all developed nations are no longer able to reproduce themselves, even with the help of migration. - Vladimir Putin, 2013”
Updated on September 02, 2019
In 2006, Russian President Vladimir Putin directed his nation’s parliament to develop a plan to reduce the country’s falling birthrate. In a speech to parliament on May 10, 2006, Putin called the problem of Russia’s dramatically declining population, “The most acute problem of contemporary Russia.” The president called on parliament to provide incentives for couples to have a second child to increase the birth rate in order to stop the country’s plummeting population.
Russia’s population peaked in the early 1990s (at the time of the end of the Soviet Union) with about 148 million people in the country. Today, Russia’s population is approximately 144 million. In 2010, the United States Census Bureau estimated that Russia’s population will decline from the 2010 estimate of 143 million to a mere 111 million by 2050, a loss of more than 30 million people and a decrease of more than 20%.
According to the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency’s World Factbook, Russia has a very high death rate of 13.4 deaths per 1,000 people per year. While decreased from a high of 15 in 2010, this is still far higher than the world’s average death rate of just under 9. The death rate in the U.S. is 8.2 per 1,000 and for the United Kingdom it’s 9.4 per 1,000. Alcohol-related deaths in Russia are very high and alcohol-related emergencies represent the bulk of emergency room visits in the country.
With this high death rate, Russian life expectancy is low—the World Health Organization estimates the life expectancy of Russian men at 66 years while women’s life expectancy is considerably better at 77 years. This difference is primarily a result of high rates of alcoholism among males.
LOW BIRTH RATE
Understandably, due to these high rates of alcoholism and economic hardship, women feel less than encouraged to have children in Russia.
Russia’s total fertility rate is low at 1.6 births per woman; the number represents the number of children each Russian woman has during her lifetime. For comparison, the entire world’s fertility rate is 2.4; the rate in the U.S. is 1.8. A replacement total fertility rate to maintain a stable population is 2.1 births per woman. Obviously, with such a low total fertility rate Russian women are contributing to a declining population.
The birth rate in the country is also quite low; the crude birth rate is 10.7 births per 1,000 people. The world average is 18.2 per 1,000 and in the U.S. the rate is 12.4 per 1,000. Infant mortality in Russia is 6.7 deaths per 1,000 live births; in the U.S., the rate is 5.7 per 1,000 and worldwide, the rate is 32 deaths per 1,000 live births.
ABORTION RATES
During the Soviet era, abortion was quite common and was utilized as a method of birth control. That technique remains common and quite popular today, keeping the country’s birth rate exceptionally low. According to a 2017 article in Foreign Policy, Russia has a ratio of around 480 abortions per 1,000 live births, only half what it was in 1995, but still enormously higher than European countries or the U.S. (about 200 abortions per 1,000 live births).
Many Russian women use abortion as their sole course of birth control, and an estimated 930,000 women terminate a pregnancy each year. Surveys indicate that 72% of the population wants abortion to stay legal.
IMMIGRATION
Additionally, immigration into Russia is low—immigrants are primarily a trickle of ethnic Russians moving out of former republics (but now independent countries) of the Soviet Union. BRAIN DRAIN and EMIGRATION from Russia to Western Europe and other parts of the world is high as native Russians seek to better their economic situation. Net migration (the difference between the number of persons entering and leaving a country during the year per 1,000 persons) in Russia is 1.7 migrants per 1,000 population; compared to 3.8 for the United States.
Putin himself explored the issues surrounding the low birth rate during his speech, asking “What has prevented a young family, a young woman, from making this decision? The answers are obvious: low incomes, a lack of normal housing, doubts about the level of medical services and quality education. At times, there are doubts about the ability to provide enough food.”
Rosenberg, Matt. “Population Decline in Russia.” ThoughtCo, Sep. 8, 2021, thoughtco.com/population-decline-in-russia-1435266.
At the same time he attacks and invades an Eastern Orthodox slavic people, the Ukrainians.
You are suckered in by Vlad’s line of cultural-religious bullshit. (I used to be) He is a stone killer who invaded Ukraine. How many Russian boys die don’t mean squat to Vlad. Vlad is an angry god who wants more human sacrifice for his restoration of the late great Tsarist Rus empire.
Sure. We’ve all read about how Christ shelled civilians when he invaded and tried to annex neighboring countries.