Thursday, November 30th, 2023 (schwartzreport.net)
Author: CHARLIE BRADLEY
Source: Express (U.K.)
Publication Date: Wed, Nov 29, 2023
Link: Vladimir Putin demands Russian women have ‘eight more children’ to make up for war deaths
Vladimir Putin, Just like his buddy Donald Trump, has trashed his country, albeit in a different way. Russia has become a very sad nation. Hundreds of thousands have immigrated or been killed in the war Putin started in Ukraine that has made Russia’s economy a disaster. The only thing they have to sell is oil and gas — do you know anyone with a Russian refrigerator or smart phone — and only to the few countries willing to buy their oil and gas. Young families aren’t having children, or only one or two. A large skew in gender distribution has formed in Russian society. It has gotten so bad that Putin is demanding that women have at least eight children. The absurdity of his demand says it all.
Russian President Vladimir Putin is demanding that women in his country have “seven, eight or more” children to boost the population.
He warned that this is needed to prevent “catastrophic demographic problems” that could impact the country’s economy.
Speaking via video link at the World Russian People’s Council on Tuesday, he said: “Many of our peoples maintain the tradition of the family, where four, five or more children are raised. Recall that in Russian families our grandmothers and great-grandmothers had both 7 and 8 children. Let us preserve and revive these traditions.
“Having many children, a large family, should become a norm, a way of life for all the people of Russia. A family is not just the foundation for state and society, it is a spiritual phenomenon, the source of morality.”
Putin himself reportedly has six children with three partners, but only publicly acknowledges his two daughters.
His comments come as Russia‘s population fell by 550,000 during first year of the […]