Russia's birth rates have been falling for decades, and the war in Ukraine has made it worse.
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.

  • @Stamau123@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
    113•1 year ago

    I wonder if women will start getting medals for babies, like soviet times? Another question, if these women are raising 8 kids, and all the men are dead in a sunflower field south of Avdivika, who the hell is supposed to be working in Russia for the next generation? Just banking on enslaving Ukraine to pay for the cost of enslaving Ukraine?

        • Rikudou_SageAEnglish
          20•1 year ago

          Well, don’t forget that this was planned as a few day operation.

          • UglyheadEnglish
            13•1 year ago

            The ol’ Napoleon strategy.

            I’ll just invade the Cossacks, this should only take a few days

            …Oh Fuck…

              • UglyheadEnglish
                1•1 year ago

                Napoleon knew that declaring an end to serfdom wouldn’t have worked in Russia. The people of Russia were staunchly behind the Czar, and Napoleon knew it; partly due to the fact that they knew Napoleon had no love for them at all; just the opposite in fact.

      • ChainweaselEnglish
        17•1 year ago

        Absolutely, and they pretty much have to commit to that plan at this point.
        Before their losses started piling up the way they have been, I’d assumed his plan was to install a puppet government and “annex” useful provences into the Soviet Union Russian federation.
        But with the population losses that require women to become livestock for the sake of the country, he’s absolutely going to enslave able bodied workers in every region he’s able to hold onto.

    • DaDragon
      22•1 year ago

      They actually introduced pretty much that exact thing back in 2008, the Order of Parental Glory. Have more children to fuel the machine, please