The Dying Russians

New York Review of Books ^ | September 2, 2014, 4:45 p.m. | Masha Gessen

[nickcarraway]

Sometime in 1993, after several trips to Russia, I noticed something bizarre and disturbing: people kept dying. I was used to losing friends to AIDS in the United States, but this was different. People in Russia were dying suddenly and violently, and their own friends and colleagues did not find these deaths shocking. Upon arriving in Moscow I called a friend with whom I had become close over the course of a year.

[Repeal The 17th]

Spoiler Alert!
In the end, we all die.

[Mount Athos]

http://www.forbes.com/sites/markadomanis/2014/04/02/4-things-you-should-know-about-russian-demography-that-vanity-fair-wont-tell-you/

[Mount Athos]

http://www.forbes.com/sites/markadomanis/2014/06/02/despite-ecoomic-and-political-turmoil-russias-demography-continues-to-improve/

[wetphoenix]

~Sometime in 1993~

It is 2014 now.

[PapaNew]

I would be VERY surprised to not find at the bottom of all the layers of deflection and apparent evidence presented, that the real culprit is the Russian government, long known to have killed tens of millions of its own citizens in adherence to the Fabian Socialist ideal of the State doing away with entire classes of people the State considers useless.

[free_life]

Russia is spiritually dead, cursed.

[TalBlack]

This guy could have used half as may words to get to his damn point. Some guys think their voice is more compelling than it actually is.

[buwaya]

Its feeling better ! - Its not. It'll be stone dead in a few minutes. They feel happy... They feel happy. -

[sergeantdave]

Masha knows people who died. Sounds like material for next great Russian novel. Did they have icepicks sticking out of their heads? If so, we have a lead on the culprit, and it ain’t Trotsky.

[FreeReign]

~Sometime in 1993~

It is 2014 now.

Read past the first two words.

"...in 2013 Russia’s birthrate was still lower and its death rate still higher than they had been in 1991. And 1991 had not been a good year."

[backwoods-engineer]

Tell me truly: can any FReeper say this? "I was used to losing friends to AIDS in the United States..."

I sure don't know anyone, as far as I know, that died from AIDS. He/she/it must have a lot of homosexual male friends, as that is the group that mostly gets AIDS.

[jocon307]

I’ll save this one for morning coffee

[x_plus_one]

Twenty thousand new christian churches in Russia last year. You need to learn Russian to know what is true and what is propaganda for those who cant read Russian news, blogs and websites.

http://batr.org/reactionary/040714.html

[x_plus_one]

Get ready for an evangelical explosion from Russia. You can’t believe what will happen next. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbkF_fkWjh0