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Putin is urging women to have as many as 8 children after so many Russians died in his war with Ukraine (www.businessinsider.com)

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Russian President Vladimir Putin is urging Russians to have more children. 
"Large families must become the norm," Putin said in a speech Tuesday. 
Russian birth rates are falling amid war in Ukraine and a deepening economic crisis.

Russian President Vladimir Putin is urging women to have as many as eight children as the number of dead Russian soldiers continues to rise in his war with Ukraine, worsening the country's population crisis.

Addressing the World Russian People's Council in Moscow on Tuesday, Putin said the country must return to a time when large families were the norm.

"Many of our grandmothers and great-grandmothers, had seven, eight, or even more children," Putin said.

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[-] uis@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

But if Russians will have 4 children or more, who will he conscript? Certanly not his oligarchs.

Oh, right. His mafia controls gosduma.

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[-] Addv4@kbin.social 7 points 10 months ago

A bit of a dark shower thought, but wouldn't this whole terrible situation really, really benefit China who has a larger male to female population as a whole?

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[-] autotldr@lemmings.world 6 points 10 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Addressing the World Russian People's Council in Moscow on Tuesday, Putin said the country must return to a time when large families were the norm.

Putin's remarks come amid decades of falling birth rates in Russia that its invasion of Ukraine and the subsequent economic fallout have only made worse.

In October, the UK's Ministry of Defence reported that Russia has likely amassed up to 290,000 killed or wounded soldiers in the war against Ukraine.

Since coming into power 24 years ago, Putin has tried to boost Russia's birthrate by introducing a range of government incentives for those who have children, including payouts for families who have more than one child.

But the measures have had little to no impact, with figures from Rosstat, Russia's federal-statistics service, putting the Russian population at 146,447,424 as of January 1, lower than it was in 1999 when Putin first became president, Le Monde reported.

"Russia lacks workers," Alexei Raksha, a demographer who previously worked at Rosstat, told AFP in February.

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[-] ATDA@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

With what husband? Got em

[-] someguy3@lemmy.ca 4 points 10 months ago

This reminds me of Daffy Duck https://youtu.be/pjNtBi_lzzM

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[-] bioemerl@kbin.social 7 points 10 months ago

Kids are cheap. All you really need is food and people.

Schools and car seats and houses are expensive, but if a generation has tons of kids, you'll have the manpower to make those things in 15 years.

Russia is kind of fucked right now and not only in demographic decline, but making it worse by killing half their young people. Will they pull out of it? Probably not.

But can they afford it? They absolutely can. And it's bad news for the rest of the world if they do. Don't underestimate this move. Especially because China is doing the same.

[-] Sanyanov@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

China is doing that by lifting restrictions it previously had on the number of kids per family.

In Russia there never was a limit, and a driver for change should be different. Putin asking Russians to make more kids won't magically improve demographics. Russia is fighting battle for demographics for about 15 years now, and it yielded very little result.

Right now people in the country are strongly uncertain about their future, economic changes leave more and more young people out of money to just live, let alone raise kids (and no, not many here will agree to have children regardless of any obstacles), and young males are actively dying on the war.

Unless a radical change is made to the economy, to all those things listed above, Russia will not succeed in drastically improving reproduction rates.

Source: I'm Russian.

[-] bioemerl@kbin.social 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

is doing that by lifting restrictions it previously had on the number of kids per family.

No. They are trying to culturally push people to have kids now. Dropping one child not only didn't work, their birth rates went down since then.

Putin asking Russians to make more kids won’t magically improve demographics

No, but Putin can do more than ask. So can China.

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[-] JimmyBigSausage@lemm.ee 4 points 10 months ago

Ok I will come to Russia “mother”land, have a sex change and pop out some Ruskie babies, at least 3 by next week. Line up boys!!

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