[XR7]

The fruit of 70 years of state-enforced atheism.

[A. Pole]

If [...] then one day we will wake up as a big European country with amazing potential. And the children will start coming.

Same way as they come in European countries.

[kenth]

The fruit of 70 years of state-enforced atheism.

That's pretty much the perfect explanation.

[Tailgunner Joe]

Putin's Lebensborn program will only succeed in making women dependent on the state, making fathers irrelevant and destroying the family.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Me, Putin pick me! I volunteer to increase Russia's birthrate.

[Clemenza]

Russia, land of drunk impotent men, and amoral sluts ready to grab the next rich American off the plane.

[GSlob]

"The fruit of 70 years of state-enforced atheism."
You are barking up the wrong tree, I'm afraid. When the general outlook is more or less normal or even optimistic [or contraceptives are unavailable], birth rates go up. But when the general outlook is gloomy, the knee jerk reaction [as formulated by another thinker from Russia, the late Alexander Zinoviev] is: "at least I will not leave them my children to lord over!"

[dennisw]

The fruit of 70 years of state-enforced atheism

Tendency is for atheists to be me oriented and immediate gratification oriented. If there is no God there is no biblical imperative to be fruitful and multiply

[eleni121]

70 + years of horror...and Putin to his credit is talking about it and putting the govt resources behind the project to save Russia. I don't see other leaders doing this especially in Europe...and they need to!

Now he and the Orthodox Church need to get busy and ban abortions.