Millennials and Gen Z are blaming Putin for intensifying Russia’s baby shortfall: ‘It’s pretty bad for us’

Growing up in St. Petersburg, Dasha, a 29-year-old marketer and artist, dreamed of having a “complete family.” Raised by her mother and grandmother, her father left when she was in elementary school.

”I grew up thinking that I would be married and have a family of my own before I turned 25,” she told Fortune.

But Russia’s political instability and financial uncertainties have recently led her to renounce having kids. In Dasha’s lifetime, Russian President Vladimir Putin has invaded Ukraine twice; the war’s consequences have taken a heavy toll on everyday Russians like her. Life in Russia has become “too complex,” she says, with money worries coupled with fears over an increasingly autocratic government.

Dasha is just one of many young Russians whose stance toward having children is indicative of the economic and political anxieties facing the country today. Fortune chose not to publish the full names of the people interviewed due to concerns of government reprisals.

Since the Soviet Union’s collapse in 1991, Russia has confronted a continued population slump due to low birth rates coupled with high mortality rates. Throughout his rule, Russian President Vladimir Putin has obsessed over Russia’s shrinking population. Last year, Putin encouraged Russians to build a “strong family [with] two, three, or four children. [This] should be the image of a future Russia.” This August, he revived the Soviet-era “Mother Heroine” award, which pays $16,000 to women who have 10 or more children.

Yeah Bert, that's why Zelenskyy is here telling the U.S. they need more money & weapons, because they are going to be victorious.

That explains why Ukraine fired missiles at Poland and then claimed they were Russian missiles. You all insisted that they were indeed Russia missiles. However, when it was confirmed beyond the shadow of a doubt that they were Ukrainian missiles, you all suddenly went completely silent.

The propaganda con I enjoyed was, The Ghost of Kiev, con of a Ukrainian fighter pilot downing & killing Russian fighter pilots in massive numbers. When it was proven to be a scene from a video game, crickets once again became the only sounds heard.

You know it doesn't really affect me at all, except for the billions being wasted, but the same cannot be said for the Ukrainian people who have become fodder, and their homeland turned into a theater of war, all so we can engage in a proxy war. A war that could have easily been avoided and stopped the accumulating snowball before it became the monster it eventually did. Ukraine may have even come out of it unscathed.

The longer it continues, the more support in Europe softens to keep funding this. It has the real potential to expand into a much wider war, that may even extend to this nation coming under attack.

You may claim that I am the idiot, but every time you look in the mirror you are seeing one of the actual idiots responsible for what is going on.

Archaic balderdash, now that's funny.

I assume you are saying that because I said these Russian speaking Ukrainians have lived there for generations. Of course you offer no evidence to refute my statement. That's because you can't, for my statement was an accurate statement.

But the mere claiming that Ukraine has a history of being a sovereign nation which hasn't been the reality for much longer then mere decades, into centuries in fact, making it truly an excellent example of archaic balderdash.

I think the real balderdash is your imbibing of a jumbled mixture of frothy liquors, while playing the classic parlor game known as "Fictionary", but sold under the name of Balderdash.

Actually you dunce I had answered your question b asking you to explain, about the lack of American babies being born.

I should have included the lack of European babies being born, which is the reason Europe claims they need all of these Arab men invading most European countries, to do the job European men either can't or aren't doing. Of course they totally ignore all of the abortions that are taken annually.

There is absolutely no evidence that what this one female they found to speak out against he war is the reason behind the decline in births.

But evidence is something you don't care about.

It's just another thing you can grasp on to, to hold up as an argument to offer as support your fallacious position, because you fail to understand fully why Russia invaded Ukraine. Furthermore you outright reject it because it doesn't jive with your predetermined opinion. That's why I call all of you stupid, because you are. You prefer to accept propaganda, and wrongly believe you are the being the moral actor in this conflict. In reality, you are the immoral actors who are keeping this conflict alive furthering the death & destruction in Ukraine based solely upon the lies of some really evil people, and you can't even see them for what they really are.

May the Lord have mercy upon all of your souls.

All you talking monkeys can utter is what your masters have brain-washed you to say & think; Russia invaded Ukraine.

You all are like a bunch of brain dead zombies.

“ Actually you dunce I had answered your question b asking you to explain, about the lack of American babies being born”

Yes, that’s called “whatsboutism”. It’s not an answer. It’s like a little kid who gets caught sneaking candy who points to his sister and cries “she stole candy, too, mommy.”

I understand you have a job and orders, but do better. You guys were way more effective back in the Cold War.

For example, why are you asking an Israeli about American children? I have 8 kids. You guys need to target your scripts better.

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