Russia is Running Out of People

[@Lord_Inquisitor7]

Imagine 25% of your budget coming from selling a drug to your own population

[@riton349]

Reasonable in PUTLERs MAFIA STATE.

[@TheKeeperofChaos]

CIA: coughs awkwardly

[@lookingforsomething]

​@caligero3000 That's some strong copium you are using on the side.

[@ArturFlintchannel]

@@caligero3000 St. Petersburg isn't only city in Russia to extrapolate this to whole country, ahem.

Muh America! Whataboutism. Classic russian propaganda. ​@@TheKeeperofChaos

[@alexandershtumpf9373]

2:14 149 million might refer to the RFSR, not the Soviet Union. Soviet Union's population peaked at 290 million.

[@Miguel_El_Chileno]

RSFSR

[@briantarigan7685]

Ukraine lost 1/3 of it's people simply due to refugees, either they leave to the west or to Russia, further millions live in Russia occupied area, and hundreds of thousands are dead in the frontline and keep growing, Ukraine already have demographic crisis before the war, after this, they have a demographic catastrophe, funnily enough, nobody speak about that

[@Merugaf]

Russian Federation of federated Russians in the Socialist Soviet People's State of Russia

[@legitbeans9078]

WTFSR

[@jeffbenton6183]

Thanks I was thinking the same thing

[@sadhoshi8182]

My good friend graduated some very low profile agriculture college with a degree in C++ programming in 2020. He simply could not find a programming job in St.Petersburg with a shitty degree like this, he submitted over 1k job applications and was continually rejected. Theres was a crap ton of very talented high skill programmers in russia so nobody wanted to hire a kid with some 3rd class degree. Then when the war started in 2022 a gigantic chunk of programmers went and left russia. My friend suddently managed to get a pretty good programing job at a govt related private company and currently doing things he is very under qualified to do. Writes a lot of his code with chat gpt lmao Propaganda here says that we defeated uneployment but actually the highest ever shortage of workforce of concerning. The most qualified people left the country or are already emplyed, and lots of young men are also at war or in the military industrial complex which doesnt actually produce anything useful for the economy. So its much easier to find a job even with a shitty degree and low skill but the quality of work and servises keeps dropping because of it

[@NewBuildmini]

It doessn't change the fact that a lot of things in this video are grossly exaggerated. Especially healthcare, and alcohol consumption, it's a lot lower than Japan or South Korea.

[@sadhoshi8182]

@@NewBuildmini healthcare quality varies drastically by region. In big cities its pretty good, but my elderly relatives from a smaller town only had bad experiences with their regional hospitals. From what i know can get pretty bad in the more poor regions. But yeah, the extent of the problem was quite exaggerated in the video. (Although its true that most older men tend to avoid going to the doctor, but its more due to generational and masculine insecurities and not because the healthcare system is bad) And the alcohol point was also presented a bit too dramatically. Alcohol consumption has been decreasing at a fast rate for the last 2 decades because of economic growth and general changes. But sadly starting from covid and with war now even more, alcohol consumption is going back up a lot. And i think the point in the video was that Russians mostly consume hard liquor which is more dangerous compared to beers and wines.

[@vladimirkoshelenko]

​@@NewBuildminihealthcare greatly varies throughout Russia. But on alcohol, you absolutely do not understand Russia. You don't have any idea.

[@NewBuildmini]

@@vladimirkoshelenko I'm a Russian myself) Alcohol consumption is a long-standing trope of Western propaganda. It might've been true in the 90s and early 2000s, when the country was basically в жопе. Nowadays the alcohol consumption rate is much lower than other "developed" countries. You can look up the statistics and see for yourself. I don't even drink myself)

[@sadhoshi8182]

@@NewBuildmini alcohol consumption is really much lower overall except some really heavily drinking regions like Tuva, which also are among the poorest

[@HomesteadAce]

Title should read "Vodka is running out of Russia!"

[@Silver_Prussian]

I have a better one ,,A guide to fooling people with statistics and bias 101"

[@HandsomeSquidward-q7g]

All Russians if they saw that title: "SACRILEGE!" Edit: Sorry I misread that and thought it said "Russia is running out of vodka" XD

[@MdToki-mu7ql]

Russians

[@daveevad3524]

Sounds like those vodka grew a pair of legs or something

[@pleasedisregardthefollowin5568]

@@Silver_Prussian It's true, real convincing arguments take the form of baseless declarations with no elaboration or logical substance.

[@abbofun9022]

Shipping young dads off to war to die in meat-waves doesn’t help

[@jeffbrunswick5511]

Especially in such a stupid and pointless war.

[@SnkHetz]

lol "meat wave" "ukraine is winning" " Russia is almost over" "Crimea will be ukraine in 2022" "2023" "2024"

[@Ravi9A]

@@jeffbrunswick5511 It's like you lot are all churned out from the same printing press with the same wars lmao. what a horrid society.

[@boris2997]

You watch too much CNN and MSNBC

[@grogery1570]

There is a reason countries exempt fathers from wars. If Russia had a three child policy to gain exemption from the war there population problem would be solved with teenagers desperately breeding to keep the army away!

[@donaZor]

In Italy now it is shrinking because homes are too expensive. It is crazy to see working people living in shared rooms.

[@algernonsidney8746]

We do not now that for sure. In Finland housing is a lot cheaper and the birthrate is well below 2 children per woman. Moreover if women in Niger can afford to on average 7 children. I am pretty sure women in Italy can afford to have 2.

[@dzonikg]

@@algernonsidney8746 Birthrate has nothing to do with money ,Africa has least money ,they had 250 milion people in 1950 now they have 1.4 billion .Problem is that its never been harder to find a wife ,like ever.

[@rustomkanishka]

​@@algernonsidney8746okay, lots to unpack but here is a simple way of remembering why developed economies hate kids When you're a poor farmer, more kids are free labour around the farm. When you're a city dweller, unless you're ultra wealthy kids are an expensive hobby. Italy, like other first world economies, is facing real estate issues. Some of it is because of the success of Italian tourism, rich people from around the world want to move there and settle down. Secondly, more importantly, as of now, real estate is largely owned by old people. Until they die in large numbers, more properties won't go on the market, and rates wont come down - that is of course, if billionaire funds don't try to buy up towns. Lastly, Italian culture in particular kinda is famous for mommas boys. Most educated women run from that.

[@grev3471]

@@rustomkanishka D-did you just assumed everyone in Africa is a farmer? Dude, the percentage of african "farmers" as westerners know it, is significantly lower than you think, that scenario of a house in a green land with with a bunch people plowing the fields that I have seen in a lot of movies is just not even close to reality in most african nations. Where did you see this?

[@algernonsidney8746]

@@rustomkanishka "When you're a poor farmer, more kids are free labour around the farm. " Given that education is available for the majority of primary school children in subsaharan Africa. Having children does not automatically guarantee a cheap source of labour. Moreover given the high rate of unemployment amongst young people there is no guarantee that children will work for their parents when they grow older. "When you're a city dweller, unless you're ultra wealthy kids are an expensive hobby. " The average sub saharan African is far poorer than their average European counterpart and yet they are all on average having more than two children. Which means that if Europeans wanted to have 2 children they could certainly afford it. "Secondly, more importantly, as of now, real estate is largely owned by old people. Until they die in large numbers, more properties won't go on the market" That does not mean that young people in Italy cannot have children given that the vast majority of them are not homeless. "Lastly, Italian culture in particular kinda is famous for mommas boys. " That is false.

[@midanbrah7224]

Putin visiting a town to tell people to have more sex is gold lmao

[@Petr75661]

yeah, they have to make babies like factories to replace the thousands lost in the meat wave attacks every month

[@azumishimizu1880]

Believe it or not, but Americans see Russia as a model society, including having such a low birth rate. Americans dont even realise they need more immigration if they want to achieve such things.

[@briantarigan7685]

Ukraine lost 1/3 of it's people simply to become refugees, either they leave to the west or to Russia, further millions live in Russia occupied area, and hundreds of thousands are dead in the frontline and keep growing, Ukraine already have demographic crisis before the war, after this, they have a demographic catastrophe, funnily enough, nobody speak about that

[@Persun_McPersonson]

@@azumishimizu1880 American here, those people are idiots and don't represent all or even most of us.

[@Drengodr]

@@azumishimizu1880 Uhh...most Americans do NOT view Russia as a "model society". I'm sure there are some fringe extremists who do, but they're probably the same folks cheering on the invasion of Ukraine, so we can safely ignore their opinions

[@holyelliw]

>Swedish vodka on the thumbnail Complete European cultural victory

[@DavidBennettPiano]

Yeah I came here to comment about the Swedish vodka in the thumbnail! 😅

[@GrigRP]

Europe is getting more irrelevant year by year, though.

[@millerrepin4452]

@@GrigRP but there alcohol isn't and that's what matters.

[@niemand7811]

It would be a cultural victory if the vodka was from the country that invented it. Poland.

[@jamier65551]

@@DavidBennettPianofancy seeing you here

[@giraffe_113]

Maybe if 400-800 a day weren't dying to a military exercise. They would have more people.

[@chuckkayak68]

Special operation.

[@abba-Flammenfresser]

@@chuckkayak68 *Special Ed military operation😢 pls respect “#2” military in za world--or should I say former #2, if they ever were that to begin with

[@JohnJBrowne11209]

Actually a lot of the casualties are not ethnic Russians. Most of this recruits come from the ethnic minorities in the Eastern parts of Russia. Putin knows he'd probably fall out a window if he started drafting young guys from Moscow or St. Petersburg

[@Opdeit]

* more than 1000 everyday

[@etienne8110]

The demographic crisis dates from well before 2020. The war just further increases the mack of young men. But it is not the main culprit nor a game changer, the situation was already dire.

[@sirensynapse5603]

Fun fact: the average male russian literally dies before he will ever see a single cent of his pension. That is to say more than half of them. It's mind-blowing, but true.

[@boatymcboatface4120]

Where is the fun in this fact?

[@2003LN6]

@@boatymcboatface4120Fun fact: Most fun facts use “fun” pretty liberally

[@MrBluman999]

​@@boatymcboatface4120the fun is before the fact. Then there's sadness.

[@Silver_Prussian]

Fun lie: not true the average life expectancy of males in russia is 70.8 years. And the only reason its lower is because many people do not go for regular check up at the doctor so they develop bad cardio-vascular disease before being able to receive treatment in time.

[@Silver_Prussian]

​@@MrBluman999the sadness is how many of you believe things which arent true

[@harperwelch5147]

Don’t forget the tremendous loss of wealth from oligarchs who have drained the country of shared wealth or reinvestment in the economy.

[@zippyparakeet1074]

And the sanctions And the foreign investments And the forex reserves And the freezing of Russian assets And nobody wanting to trade with them directly anymore (did I mention sanctions?) No one wants to buy Russian arms anymore and arms export was one of their major exports and feeding their military industry.

[@Silver_Prussian]

In the 90s during the the rule of western supported yeltsin, yea absolutely. I cant also forget how westerners sought to help and turn into victims some of these oligarchs putin crushed, like Khodorkovsky and Berezovsky. London became a den for their dirty money. Then came western oligarchs like Bill Browder to loot the russian economy and when he got caught he lobbies the us into creating the magnitsky law as well as sanction russia.

[@nefigushki]

Don't forget about Egyptian pyramids either.

[@TheThreatenedSwan]

B-but they're supposed to be the based Putin haters and not opportunistic parasites only mad that he shut the tap off for them

[@brandonholmes8485]

​@nefigushki what? Explain.

[@Knuckles2761]

Vodka is a symptom, coping mechanism to deal with chronic depression.

[@akumaking1]

Does that explain Nasty Leprosi?

[@Knuckles2761]

@@akumaking1 surprisingly, yes. Chronic depression is a status effect that gives you -75% disease resistance.

[@StevenEveral]

There's a common phrase you'll find in most Russian history: "...And then it got worse."

[@АлександрДаминин]

"сommon phrase" is a key word here: i`m actually very curious, what does "common phrase you`ll find in most Russian history" means?) Cause it`s sounds like a typical thing that a "regular human" would say. Didn`t study history, doesn`t have a degree in it, but "knows" it, cause watched many YT videos and saw many comments which are he repeats. Classic. Regular human having no clue about science. Maybe you didn`t study it - but that`s like your own problem, that doesn`t mean that it is like that. Where should i "find" that phrase in "most Russian history"? Who said it? Random YT user and than other people just repeating that phrase like they always do? You can imagine anything you wan: that Australia is in Europe and Austria is a continent, that Switzerland is a Scandinavian country and Sweden is located in Alps, that Africa is a country and that Russian history can be described by one random phrase, just because you lived like during the time in which people don`t remember anything about Russia besides USSR and Russia is like more than a thousand-year old country.

[@ArkadyArkhangorodskyArkArk]

хотелось как лучше, получилось как всегда

[@Silver_Prussian]

Yeah its not true. Many periods of russian history which were great. Many periods when other countries suffered and russia didnt.

[@winzyl9546]

​@@Silver_Prussianthen it got worse

[@armandoventura9043]

​@@Silver_Prussian I have read a lot of the history of Russia and it can be summarized as: The Tzar took more power, with this power he played with the aristocrats and they exploited the people more to take advantage wanting a favor of the Tzar That is the reason why they were the first nation to take the path of communism

[@prettypic444]

We actually studied vodka problem in my Soviet history class! I even wrote my final paper for the class on the relationship between alcoholism and the status of women. I really liked how my professor focused more on the social and cultural history of the USSR than the typical military and economical history.

[@mistercrab]

Tell us more!

[@dunnowy123]

Yeah, I sometimes feel.like in the West, we only view the USSR in those political and economic terms than as a place...where, at one point, nearly 300 million people lived, and where ancient nations were a part of.

[@rcchin7897]

@m : Should be able to search for at least one YT video discussing how from tsars to the current govt has had control over vodka (which should be an easily created alcohol) to control the people.

[@skh5580]

As a society, we tend to undervalue history.

[@billygoatgruff3536]

That sounds like it would have been a fascinating paper. Do have a summarised version you can share?

[@kieferkarpfen6897]

Fun fact most of the regions with seperatist movments have higher birtrates than ethnic russians. Surly nothing bad will come from this.

[@RabbitShirak]

Sad fact, Russia is very keen on sending ethnic minorities to the front lines.

[@jasonfromguitarcenter]

Chechen War 3.0

[@rohan14040]

Good thing ig

[@MdZeeshanAnsari1]

Muslims

[@LalaLa-ze7kv]

​@@MdZeeshanAnsari1 Tuvans have roughly the same birth rate as chechens and they are buddist

[@future62]

"It would be too simplistic to blame the collapse of the USSR on a vodka ban" Unfortunately I am a very simple man

[@stoonookw]

Simple men make simple times

[@Diego105r]

People got sober and saw which shit they live in 😂

[@user-wr3vt8uq4s]

Sorry, I think far more blame should go to the financial looters in the crisis years, as well as the subsequent oligarch mode. Granted some of the "looters" were from the West. There were serious misallocations if people *not* drinking crashes the economy. Russia sits on huge amounts of oil, gas and timber. I understand commodity export societies have their issues, but the leadership is stealing from the till and then blaming some poor schmuck who's gotten screwed.

[@zollen123]

One must wonder what was Putin thinking? He cares about his legacy but he consistently upholds policies that are detrimental to the long term survival of his nation.

[@col.barnsby8595]

And that's when you find out that behind the facade of big words not all "authoritarian" or any other, for that matter, leaders are genuine in their love for "their" nation. Perhaps they even have some forces above them whom they don't want to upset, eh?

[@Kektamusprime]

my guess is he just wants to be in the history books for wars, no different to how we look back at people like Napoleon etc he doesnt care about russia or its people only about himself and how he is remembered

[@martinpiekarski1512]

That's why I find it even more surprising that there are no uprisings against him.

[@Godfrey544]

@@martinpiekarski1512 The only explanation i can think of is that its a crucial aspect of the general russian psyche to see imperial wars as a necessity for survival. might have been ingrained from the mongolian invasions i don't know.

[@Ravi9A]

ITT completely nit wit americans wondering why their failed education doesn't let them comprehend the world.

[@SuperSmashDolls]

Broke: Russia is a gas station masquerading as a country Woke: Russia is a bar masquerading as a country

[@johnlynch1353]

Galaxy brain: Russia is a giant fireball gas and vodka waiting to happen.

[@tmike_tc]

Choke: Russia is a petrochemical cabal posing as a former Superpower.

[@JakubWojciechowski933]

I'm glad this meme is still alive

[@tmike_tc]

@@SuperSmashDolls Choke: Russia is a criminal cabal posing as a former Superpower.

[@theyoten1613]

Gas stations sell vodka too.

[@desmondmailswhite8023]

Yeah, yeah, they can say "there's not enough workers" all day long, but as a russian, I'll say it's just lies. There's enough people, there's enough workers. It's just lack of "qualified underpaid workers". If you check every interview with local employers, they all say "We don't understand why people don't want to work for 300$ a month, it's a respectable competitive salary". Anyone offering 1000$ or more has absolutely no lack of employees and is doing great. Russia is deeply poisoned with dutch disease, it's just not economically viable to do here anything else but to sell resources, and working places in a lot of cases are just a subsidiary for keeping people calm and occupied.

[@cetriyasArtnComicsChannel]

So basically what we all have. All this "we don't have enough babies" just sounds like "we don't have enough desperate destitute youths from broken homes we can extract labor from"

[@rasimbot]

Официальная безработица 2.5%. Такой низкий показатель это явный индикатор недостатка рабочей силы

[@richdobbs6595]

Both of those things can be true.

[@lashlarue7924]

I agree that "Dutch Disease" is an appropriate diagnosis. The oil-exporting sector of the economy drives up the exchange rate and makes other exports uncompetitive in terms of input cost. A similar situation exists in the United States with respect to truck drivers. We always talk about the "truck driver shortage", and this has been a thing for many years. If the hourly pay rate were higher they would have no problem finding the labor; they simply don't have enough people willing to drive a truck for free.

[@RenoReborn]

@@cetriyasArtnComicsChannel No, there's more than enough poor people to take advantage of at any given time, there always will be. The problem is Russia's aging population doesn't have enough people to actually look after them (because not enough of them had kids, you see how that works) which in turn creates numerous other social problems (because there aren't enough young people to run everything efficiently). Look up South Korea population collapse and whilst you're learning about that, there's one fact you need to remember: Birthrates are in decline across the globe, South Korea's future is everyone's future.

[@d.w.stratton4078]

It's fucking disgusting that just about every country in the world is failing its people so fundamentally. I'm so sick of austerity, existential dread, and never getting to just enjoy life.

[@littlehorn0063]

I just want to write silly rule books for tabletop and card games, not slave away for a place to live in, something that EVERYONE should have, in an uncaring shithole. I feel you. It's bleak and grey

[@marcbuisson2463]

Don't mind us, but Russia's *particularly* good at this game, and has been for the last centuries.

[@mr.d.4175]

I am entirely enjoying life. I worked full time for 15 years while earning 5 degrees. I became a lawyer at age 34, retired at age 49 and for the last 16 years I lived on lakefront property, fishing daily, drinking in moderation and JUST ENJOYED LIFE and continue to do so. I own my home, have a new car and truck, no payments except "heating & eating, exercise daily and hang out with my two dogs. I have enough money to never touch my savings. All this is possible because I had a plan, worked while attending school, stayed away from alcohol and drugs, and lived a conservative lifestyle. My investments were conservative and will now carry me through until I die. God bless the United States of America. Where else can a child from a poor family live such a life?

[@djtall3090]

it's sad, with our technology, science, health care, transportation, everyone on Earth should be living well and healthy.

[@Some1inFNQ]

living on 25 acres of rainforest, getting a government pension for the last 33 years, I own an economical little AWD wagon, a big 4x4, cameras, camera drones, computers, 4 guitars (lol) and 2 amps, and I get to hang out all day getting high on medical cannabis. I'm not married or in a relationship, I don't have any kids and I've been debt free since 2017, and I save an average of $80 a week. My country isn't failing me :) Might be failing others but as others always say about me and my medical problems and the discrimination I used to get from the people I now have nothing further to do with, who cares, that's not my problem.

[@nub1etol320]

Meanwhile in japan : Japanese man married anime character

[@The8BitPianist]

2:36 Japan's race to the bottom in this list is both hilarious and sad

[@jeffbrunswick5511]

Economists can talk all the rubbish they want, but Japan will still have one of the highest standards of living of any country in the world. Niger's population is booming and it is pure misery there.

[@xiphoid2011]

now, there is a country that needs to have more sex. Strange for a country where pornography is so normalized.

[@2Lelouch5]

​@@xiphoid2011Not surprising given their horrible work culture.

[@ArawnOfAnnwn]

@@2Lelouch5 No. Even the us has longer hours, go check the numbers. And in general this trend doesn't match up with work hours at all. Nor with housing prices, as is another popular excuse for it. It does match up pretty well with some other things though. Here's a hint - Isr is the only advanced nation with a higher than replacement rate birth rate, and that's largely because of a subcategory of their population that still has large families, and is the fastest growing social group in the country. Similar subcategories also have large families in other countries too, even in the west. This holds even when holding things like socio-economic situation constant i.e. relative to their socio-economic peers.

[@luisgottwald1382]

​​@@xiphoid2011I guess pornography actually plays a big part in that since multiple studies have shown that higher pornography consumption correlates with having less to no sex

[@chaosXP3RT]

The Slavs of Russia were never freed from serfdom. They still live at the whims of a Tsar and it's sad

[@littlehorn0063]

Instead of direct payments to the person who keeps you on their territory, you now pay to the middlemen in a form of mortages, with builders and banks having your money. I just want to have my own fucking house, without hving 2 jobs and/or a spouse working too to just afford basic necessities

[@gerryhouska2859]

But that's the way they like it.

[@Silver_Prussian]

How many times have I seen this kind of comment from some pretend to be deep pseudo-historian.

[@Veylon]

@@littlehorn0063 There are always empty acres of forest going for a few thousand bucks where I live. If you don't want to deal with the builders and bankers and want a house that's really, truly all your own, there's that option.

[@chaosXP3RT]

@@Silver_Prussian I have no idea. I've never seen it before

[@mitchrichards1532]

Russia is running out of people because people are running out of Russia, life sucks there.

[@nickkormakov2304]

sTucks))))

[@A_Nice_Guy.]

Said the guy that was never there

[@mitchrichards1532]

@@A_Nice_Guy. My neighbors are from there, and I was in Ukraine. I have tons of evidence and no doubt about what I said above. Truth hurts sometimes I guess...

[@A_Nice_Guy.]

@@mitchrichards1532 so you know 100% from you neighbors.......I have a neighbor from the moon, delusional

[@mitchrichards1532]

@@A_Nice_Guy. Its not delusional one bit, your attempt to be dismissive is obviously just sour grapes and avoiding the reality. Every index from average per capita income, to avg life expectancy, avg substance abuse, etc. are all indicative of a low performing society. No one is migrating there, few people are having children, many are leaving or want to leave, etc. Work on your lame argument genius, you have no points or even a basis as of now. Every demographic fact or economic indicator supports my position and I have many eyewitnesses that corroborate my researched opinion.

[@ramuk1933]

2:35 and Japan just vanishes...

[@Preusseboi]

At least both of them will last longer than the Koreans...

[@dentistrider3874]

lmao didn't see that the first time

[@TylerSolvestri]

Korea in the bottom like 😵😵

[@churblefurbles]

@@Preusseboi Eh, as long as they aren't replaced they will recover as the fecund take over. The west has a much worse problem of turning into the 3rd world again.

[@whyamiwastingmytimeonthis]

Really sad

[@Ryan-093]

everyone taking the swedish vodka thumbnail bait leaving comments saying it's swedish to increase engagement.

[@ericsilver9401]

As you do so as well

[@cadenbigler]

​@@ericsilver9401As you do so as well

[@TheGreatConqueror1]

​@@ericsilver9401you as well

[@olof3474]

I took the bait…

[@ericsilver9401]

@@cadenbigler do so you well as

[@patavinity1262]

For some reason you compared the fertility rates of Leningrad and Saint Petersburg despite the fact that these are two names for the same place.

[@Mic_Glow]

Low life expectancy is a bonus, not a downside... if a worker dies around the time he's supposed to go on pension, it's free money for the state. I doubt the family gets anything from the "saved" money (it's not really saved, pension system is a pyramid scheme)

[@richdobbs6595]

Logically, then the Russian state should figure out something to with its babushka problem. Russian women retire before the end of their useful worklife and live ten years longer than men.

[@kompatybilijny9348]

Bismarck really fucked us with this one, didn't he?

[@Hjernespreng]

It's not a bonus when it means your workforce is unhealthier, less productive, and wastes its money on things that make the issue even worse. This in turn leads to more young people fleeing the country, and the cycle worsens. Elderly people are also a VITAL pillar of Putin's popular support.

[@Praisethesunson]

Capitalism is the pyramid scheme.

[@jasonburbank2047]

Absolut Vodka is a Swedish company owned by a French one.

[@lyaz8426]

@@baronvonslambert the thumbnail implies it's russian

[@tobene]

​@@lyaz8426It doesn't. It implies that the video of the title has something to do with vodka.

[@chefnyc]

Russian Standard could help with wordplay 😏

[@ItsJoKeZ]

it does not. it is for a pun. there is no russian flag or marking. the video is not about alc. you took it that way.​@@lyaz8426

[@JasTheKariol]

And you comment implies that your IQ is low (inability to cognitively identify "the pattern"/"association" of russia&vodka), or that you are in denial.

[@ExploreLearnEnglishWithGeorge]

WHO: Drinking vodka is dangerous and will kill you. Russia: Hold my beer.

[@jacobrzeszewski6527]

Food product beer.

[@Blaze6108]

Comparing Russia to Italy will always be funny to me, since in Italy there's a weirdly strong russophilic current, which moved from the socialist and communist parties of the USSR years to more broadly across the country and now especially on the right wing. How times change.

[@funghi2606]

We like to chose the losing side, always haha

[@Sinaeb]

@@funghi2606 You did it correctly at least once

[@Perrirodan1]

Not true at all in WW1 it was on the winning one.

[@Blaze6108]

@@Perrirodan1 I would argue no one should be considered the winner or the loser of WWI if not in a purely technical sense. WWI had no good reason to exist, no one had any moral reasons to claim, WWI ended the belle epoque, ruined Europe, and finally created the conditions for WWII which resulted in the genocide of tens of millions of innocent people.

[@megaponful]

​@@funghi2606you're blind if you think Russia is losing

[@krankenhaus1991]

Next move "ban condoms and birth control pills".

[@surelyyoujokemeinfailure7531]

And ban abortions, of course.

[@nefigushki]

@@surelyyoujokemeinfailure7531, and decriminalize rape if it leads to pregnancy.. Jokes aside, these steps aren't that far from what parliament members say out loud.

[@Jose04537]

Rumania tried that (​Decrete 770), it doesn't work. Results? Poorer families for having children they can't afford, and more children in orphanages. @@surelyyoujokemeinfailure7531

[@speedbird-777]

That will give rise to black market which would be bad cuz it is unregulated.

[@SomeGuy1117]

​@@speedbird-777True, however people who advocate that typically don't care about the health and safety of people. Its more just a desperate attempt to make their funny number go up regardless of circumstance.

[@rerun3283]

But Tucker said Russia is doing awesome. I'm confused 😮 he wouldn't be lying would he?

[@klausheino6986]

🤔😏

[@FalandraAoC]

Yeah you see, he went to a supermarket in Russia, and they had bread there! Can you imagine that? Bread! Russia is a super power and Ukraine should give up, Russia has bread and cereal brands in their stores afterall!

[@tyalikanky]

In population? It's better than mean in Europe, but much worse than Asia. For example it's better that Ukraine and Poland, but worse than Kazakhstan.

[@tyalikanky]

@@FalandraAoC I think he was just surprised to see European-made foods there.

[@geargeekpdx3566]

"laughs in high pitched girlie voice

[@giorgialadashvili4771]

12:49 Putin is not a teetotaler, though. He certainly drinks, just not much and so by insane Russian standards he might as well be a teetotaler.

[@martinpiekarski1512]

Bullshit, he gobbles as much vodka as your typical addict, just tries hard to hide it because that would destroy his public image.

[@ArawnOfAnnwn]

Russian standards are kinda extreme both ways. They actually have a larger percentage of teetotalers than most western nations. But they also have a very high proportion of heavy drinkers. The result is that a much larger portion of those Russians who do drink, also don't survive it. Their alcohol-related mortality rate is very high, matched only by a few other slavic nations, but that's not cos all Russians drink, many don't at all.

[@rasimbot]

He is. KGB agents don't drink

[@martinpiekarski1512]

@@rasimbot Even if it's true, is he still a KGB agent? Nah, it was a long time ago and he wasn't even good as a spy. Now he is an autocratic opressor who rigs elections and wages wars. So he doesn't have to worry about stoping oneelf from drinking.

[@Silver_Prussian]

Insane russian standarts. Buddy several european nations outpace russia in alcohol consumption and many more are very close. Majority of the youth drinks way less. Alcoholism in russia has been dropping a lot since the year 2000.

[@user-is-giorgio]

1:46 Saint Petersburg is former Leningrad, to avoid confusion please note that it is Leningrad Oblast and not city

[@MateDrinker33]

According to other commenters, it’s possible this may be a reference to the Leningrad Oblast (since supposedly the oblast kept the old name while only the city supposedly reverted). If so, the chart doesn’t really make that clear.

[@TDGSMP]

Leningrad which again is former Saint Petersburg

[@vincenzoc.1781]

Leningrad is an Oblast near Karelia, it doesn't refers to St Peterburg

[@geofflepper3207]

I was wondering about that.

[@freedomfighter22222]

There are only Oblasts on the list, why would anyone think "Leningrad, yeah they must mean the city formerly known as Leningrad because that is the thing that fits on this list"

[@nzc9609]

its so annoying american youtubers saying half of michigan stadium just tell the fuking number

[@skullsaintdead]

I know right, and as an Australian everything coming out of the Northern Hemisphere is like "early Summer/late Spring' and I have to think what is the opposite season for us that aligns with their season, plus their seasons don't just start at the beginning of the month (e.g. winter right now in Oz is June 1st - Aug 31st). So that's really irritating too, just say the date!

[@d36williams]

the big house as its called fits 100,000 people

[@arbynChief617]

Reject Euro complaints, apply football standard

[@Daniel-nb3kk]

​@@arbynChief617GigaMerican

[@tim3172]

Maybe they shouldn't be sending hundreds of thousands of young men into a meat grinder and should, instead focus on improving their actual country?

[@qZbGmYjS4QusYqv5]

Well, Russia has participated in all the conflicts miraculously appearing around its borders since 1991. Why stop now?

[@timurylmaz6074]

Drafting young men to fight against ukraine is also a big part of it those who have the means usually flee the country with their families.

[@lmnk]

Only a tiny part of population actually can flee, no matter whether they want. The air bans don't help either.

[@Coffeepanda294]

If or when he starts recruiting from the cities they'll really start to leave in large numbers.

[@Ютубводоканал]

... and came back little later, as they faced all rusophobia and sanctions in the west.

[@youtubehandlesux]

@@Ютубводоканал russo "phobia" isn't real, the only thing real is those russians can't behave with basic human decency.

[@marcbuisson2463]

​@@Ютубводоканал 100% russophobia and sanctions than russian current economy. 20% mortgages rates, that's... that's pretty brutal man.

[@丫o]

People in the comments pointing out that the thumbnail is of a vodka distilled in Sweden really are out here dodging the pun like Neo dodging bullets 💀

[@hauthesun]

Why is the population chart at 2:30 so misleading? Labeling the RSFSR as having 1,070~ million people just to make the number decrease more dramatic? They only had 147 million in 1989 and only 146 to 143 million now (depends on the inclusion of Crimea), never a billion. I was always questioning your integrity before but this makes me even more skeptical if you'll skew graphs this obviously.

[@hashhashbrowns5381]

You forgot this is one of those propaganda channels that talk about China. Not to say I don't like China but it's just the same slop fed

[@William1w1]

Thanks for pointing this out. He keeps Russia's order in the list in a reasonable spot, but, yeah... There's just wrong numbers attached to it for dramatic effect. That's really bad.

[@parraandy97]

Beware the misplaced comma on 3,800 miles at 0:21

[@MateDrinker33]

Good eye! :D

[@concept5631]

Thanks

[@strategystuff5080]

Turns out guys.. drinking not good for ya. but consumers gonna consume.

[@Coronavirus-yl7mq]

1:49 Leningrad (its an old name) is Saint-Petersburg. So 0.87 either refers to stats from USSR or to Leningrad Oblast, which is a huge region surrounding Saint-Petersburg

[@freedomfighter22222]

That list only includes Oblasts and Oblasts is what he is talking about, why would it be the city formerly known as Leningrad and not Leningrad oblast? Leningrad obviously refers to the Oblast and not St Petersburg or else it would have said St Petersburg.

[@billusher2265]

But western countries like the US, UK and Canada only grow because of immigrations, but what happens when the second and third Gen immigrants have the same declining fertility as the natives as they assimilated and there will no longer be as many immigrants coming in because the foreign countries also developed? Then they will have a even bigger issue of a larger elderly population to support.

[@ashleyhamman]

European countries, mainly around Scandinavia, are working on improving benefits for parenthood, such as both parents getting good amounts of maternity leave and a bunch of childcare costs covered. The big problem with The West in this context is work culture and kids being percieved as just an extra cost on top of rising cost of living.

[@technetium9653]

Then they get MORE immigrants, this is the advantage western countries have over poor aging societies like Thailand and rich xenophobic societies like Japan, this is what Russia tried to do with Central Asian migrants, before it's economy started going the other way, and they started conscripting central Asians for the war, now they have a better chance at home than in Russia, this will have to end one day, but it gives them breathing room

[@rumrunner8019]

Even without immigration, the US has a birth rate of 1.78, just below replacement, and it was above replacement just ten years ago. Even if there was no immigration the US would be much better off than places like Japan or Russia.

[@Exxperiment626]

They import more immigrants. That's how the US became the land of immigrants. 😊

[@sniedendepoes]

No worries, the migrants aren’t assimilating at all! We will be entirely replaced in no time for no reason whatsoever

[@AlanTheBeast100]

Ukraine's new weapon: Send cases of Vodka to the Russian soldiers.

[@mrnmrn1]

Both Ukrainian and Russian soldiers probably have vodka in their MRE packs.

[@beanapprentice1687]

I mean Russian soldiers were literally fooled into drinking poisoned vodka around the beginning of the war…

[@andrewdubose9968]

In Ukraine, it was 1.16 _before_ the war. It currently stands at .7.

[@thehistorynerd8537]

It wasnt good before, but people dont focus on Ukraine’s birth decline because of the artificial cause due to war. Japan, South Korea, and China are more notable because they too have around 1 baby per woman in Japan, and around.8 in China and SK, due to cultural and economic factors, which arent easily explained “because invasion”

[@harsha8964]

Now South Korea's is 0.68, even worse

[@geofflepper3207]

​@@harsha8964 Yikes. And the fertility rate is much lower in Seoul than in the rest of the country.

[@predabot__6778]

@@harsha8964 That's... literally horrifying -- since it implies a lot of suffering for the people to come. :O

[@kompatybilijny9348]

Yeah, birthrates tend to drop during the war and explode right after it, as soldiers return home and have lots of sex. When Ukraine wins this war this will likely be even more pronounced, as EU will pump money into Ukraine, creating a lot of opportunities with less people around to compete for them, which will lead to an increase in salaries.

[@crow22zero]

Loved your breakdown, thank you so much PolyMatter as always!

[@holz_name]

Russia is an oxymoron in itself. Russia is a huge country, and I mean huge. You have so much space, it's something else. With so much space comes also a lot of natural resources. Name a resource, Russia have it. Coal, oil, gas, iron, copper, gold, uranium, water, and so on. So how come that Russia was always poor? The two rich cities are Moscow and St. Petersburg. What do they have in common? They are connected to the West (or they used to be). Russia should have double the wealth of America. Even by GDP alone, Russia is below Italy. And by GDP per capita, Russia never outgrew Poland since 1994.

[@joejohnson6327]

The people living in Russia have always been poor because their rulers have always treated the vast majority of them like expendable cattle. Mystery solved.

[@virgilius7036]

Russia is literally plundered by the KGB colonel, head of the Oligarch mafia, all former leaders of the Communist Party.

[@MarkShal-nv6bj]

Only 20% of Russia's territory is considered suitable for living due to its climate, while the rest is either unsuitable or absolutely unsuitable because it consists of tundra, permafrost, swamps, and mountains, and etc. Check the map of hardiness zones to see this. There are more rich cities in Russia but Moscow and St. Petersburg, those are just the ones you know of, let’s be honest.. Moscow and St. Petersburg have the advantage of being closer to the West, but it is also because Russia first appeared in this area and later expanded to the east. The western part of Russia is in a more suitable climate zone, so people naturally prefer to live there rather than in the tundra. Additionally, who would you trade with in Siberia? Polar bears? Another major factor contributing to Eastern Russia's underdevelopment is that the RSFSR was the largest donor for the Soviet Union, contributing its resources to other Soviet republics. Check the production and consumption statistics of the USSR. It really backlashed when the USSR collapsed and its allies bailed. Also, this whole flat GDPs comparison is getting old, no one does that except some uneducated youtubers. GDP by PPP, localization of production and a structure of GDP matters. It’s simple, actually: would Italy be able to fight in a war of the same scale Russia does, while under 15,000 sanctions and still develop its industries and production at a fast rate? The answer is no.

[@holz_name]

@@MarkShal-nv6bj Thx for the insightful reply. I just looked it up. Moscow and St. Petersburg are the richest countries in Russia, the rest doesn't come even close. In fact, they so rich that they are an Oblast in itself. Moscow 2,182,863 St. Petersburg 1,992,592, the richest Tyumen Oblast 3,637,117. GRDP/capita RUS. Of course everything you bring up are valid facts, nevertheless they don't explain Russia's paradox. Russia is rich, but it is so poor. Through history, Russia was ruled by the most incompetent people. Be it the Tsar, be it Stalin, be it now Putin. Did the USSR had allies? I rather think, the USSR had occupied countries, and of course they bailed after the occupier self destructed. "but it is also because Russia first appeared in this area and later expanded to the east." What this means? Russia didn't appeared 50 years ego. "would Italy be able to fight in a war of the same scale Russia does" Ukraine beat the Russia's invasion against all odds. I mean the first invasion of Russia with the goal to capture Kiew. "still develop its industries and production at a fast rate" I don't know what this means. Russia didn't developed any industries at a fast rate. Russia's stock in military material is running out. There was zero modern tanks in Ukraine, Russia also never had air superiority, and never had a navy in the Black Sea. What Russia used was its stockpile of refitted 1980s tanks, and of Soviet material. What Russia is using now are cheap drones and cheap glide bombs, which they launching from the safety of their own air space, and that only because the Western allies forbade Ukraine in using our weapons on Russia's soil. The truly only Reason why Ukraine is not marching on Moscow is because Russia have nuclear weapons and we in the West are scared of nuclear war. Well, that, and the fact that Putin can send waves after waves of Russian men until the Ukrainians run out of ammo, like Stalin did in WW2 against the German army.

[@producedbypodcast]

We need a series about Russia, similar to the one you did about China!

[@hwg5039]

Don't forget one on the US!

[@lmnk]

It'll probably be something between "99.99% of Russians support [govt/Putin/war/etc.]!" and "90s were the best times in Russian history!". There are actually good government-independent (mainly from now-abroad Russian opposition) modern history videos, but good luck finding something in English.

[@rustix3]

2:18 "after its collapse" it lost the territories with highest birth rates

[@thebaker8637]

almost like all the good parts wanted to f off

[@jesusdontlikethatimgaybuts9493]

​@@thebaker8637the referendum of 1990 disagrees with you

[@briantarigan7685]

Ukraine lost 1/3 of it's people simply due to refugees, either they leave to the west or to Russia, further millions live in Russia occupied area, and hundreds of thousands are dead in the frontline and keep growing, Ukraine already have demographic crisis before the war, after this, they have a demographic catastrophe, funnily enough, nobody speak about that

[@R_V_]

@@thebaker8637 As a matter of fact, the implosion was wanted by Russians. It's Russia that declared its independance and left the USSR first.

[@salakasto]

Russia's birth rate was still fine without the Soviet territories before the collapse

[@JB52520]

What good is a longer life if you hate suffering it? People need an escape. If they're drinking too much, more effort must be put into making their lives better. Despair causes drinking, so fix the despair. Just as in the US, when the rich take everything, life sucks. Also, people don't want to bring children into a hopeless world. They can't even if they want to when there isn't enough money and they're too exhausted for intimacy.

[@Some1inFNQ]

shh. stop telling the truth.

[@virgilius7036]

KGB Colonel Comrade Vladimir Putin and the Oligarchs, all former leaders of the Communist Party, do not care at all about the health of their slaves!

[@b1646717]

The Transsiberian Railroad was a bucket list item until I learned that being accosted by a drunk was a daily ordeal.

[@surelyyoujokemeinfailure7531]

I could handle the drunks (yuk) but now it's going to be off my bucket list. Won't be a good place to be an American traveler :(

[@retineyzer1670]

Drunk grandpas are the best, imagine all the stories you would hear about good old soviet times

[@JohnSmith-fo5cx]

@@surelyyoujokemeinfailure7531 it's fine to be an American and it's highly unlikely you'll be accosted lol....thats just propaganda nonsense.

[@sabrinarodrigues629]

Funny profile pic

[@JohnSmith-fo5cx]

Its still a fun trip..dont believe the west propaganda that its dangerous.

[@martinpiekarski1512]

That only shows that they don't have much else other than vodka. When they ban vodka, they have nothing.

[@blazer9547]

Russia needs to go

[@rumrunner8019]

They need to legalize and start cultivating cannabis. Russia would become a peaceful country with a high birthrate within five years. But food prices may spike due to demand.

[@martinpiekarski1512]

@@blazer9547 It should. There is just no place for totalitarian autocracies in 21st century.

[@martinpiekarski1512]

@@rumrunner8019 Maybe, never know before you try. Although I'm not so sure the countries with legal marihuana have such high birth rates. Smoking weed does not exactly make you horny.

[@rcchin7897]

They have potatoes! Okay, so they don‘t because they turned them all into vodka. :D

[@barry63196]

at 2:00 for the people wondering "Leningrad" is the name of the Oblast (administrative region) around Petersburg (it hasn't been changed since 1991), saint petersburg is its own oblast (same with moscow, moscow city and moscow oblast are 2 different oblasts, this can be seen in a lot of other places too around the world, mostly around capitals and other major cities)

[@derek8564]

Russia is Running Out of People...and tanks, planes, ammunition, money etc.

[@TenylegMinekez-uc7co]

..and everything. Since day 1. Also Putin is dead, but also desperate. And insane.🤣

[@dx-ek4vr]

Putin remains a “Master Strategist”

[@TenylegMinekez-uc7co]

@@dx-ek4vr I think Putin shows too much weakness in this war (even if it is patience). I wouldn't be surprised if the next leader of Russia would be more hawkish.

[@nc1246]

Only morons in this section

[@ChucksSEADnDEAD]

​@@TenylegMinekez-uc7co Patience? They just struck a pediatric hospital as retaliation for an ammo dump being struck in Voronezh.

[@asddogcatdog9720]

Bro American male deaths are at 75 Russia 68 we not that far off 😂 we so cooked without public health care

[@xiphoid2011]

US mortality is 75, which is largely due to people eat too much and too much drugs coming from Mexico. If US was cut off from Mexico like Europe, life expectancy will be around 78.

[@thingamabob3902]

and 3rd (?) worst place in efficiency ... a.k.a corruption

[@FictionHubZA]

America dropped. The life expectancy used to be higher.

[@arturturkevych3816]

American life expectancy is dropping mainly due to people overdosing on drugs. Obesity doesn't help too.

[@Silver_Prussian]

Russian male life expectancy increase to 70.8 year in 2023.

[@iambicpentakill971]

Don't touch alcohol restriction, it doesn't work? Weird thing to say because it very clearly worked at the stated goal of reducing alcohol related deaths, it just caused different problems

[@keithsj10]

During the late 1980's, world oil prices had collapsed. The Soviet Union relied on oil sales to help stay afloat but those revenues collapsed. Oil prices dropped to as low as $8 per barrel in the early 90's. That's devastating for a country that relied on oil to fund half it's government. The Chernobyl clean up also cost billions of rubles, the war in Afghanistan alone nearly bankrupted them and it looks like the final nail may have been cracking down on vodka sales, losing those taxes. I don't recall the vodka crackdown. Interesting. In 2014 Russia invaded Ukraine the first time while Obama was US president and Russia was "in an economic downturn in need of extra revenue". Oil prices were still high, appx $80-$90 per barrel so Russia was making bank on that. Also interesting that they still needed "extra revenue". Maybe to fund the invasion? 2016 saw the collapse of oil prices again, down to around $28 I think. There was a glut of oil on the market thanks to American frackers under president TRUMP and gas prices were the lowest they'd been since 9/11. Oil prices stayed low for over a year before the glut was absorbed and prices started rising again in 2018. In March 2020, there was an OPEC+ meeting. Russia was the + in OPEC+. Putin's oil minister announced that Russia would no longer abide by the production limits OPEC demanded. Those limits weren't stopping or even slowing American frackers and Russia needed the price of oil to drop enough to get the frackers out. This announcement rattled everyone causing Saudi Arabian prince MBS himself to personally call Putin that weekend and ask him not to do this. Putin claimed ignorance, that he had nothing to do with it, that it was up to the oil minister. MBS flew into a rage because everyone knows Putin runs everything over there and claiming he didn't was an insult. So MBS cursed him and told him SA wasn't going to absorb yet another crash in oil prices, so if Russia was going to ignore production limits, SA would open everything up and flood the market. Everyone at the meeting heard this and by Monday morning, the stock market completely collapsed. The price of oil fell below zero for the first time in history and kept falling into negative territory. The emergency brake that shuts off the American stock market went off 15 minutes after opening that morning. It hadn't happened since October 1987. PUTIN caused the stock market collapse in America by just having a telephone conversation with Muhammad bin Salman. Combined with the growing, irrational fears of covid beginning to spread around the world, it was a perfect storm to destroy trillions in personal wealth around the world. Thanks Putin. Dikhéad 🙄 Putin is OBVIOUSLY the problem with Russia.

[@stereo-soulsoundsystem5070]

Thank you for adding context to why oil dropped to -$19 a barrel a few years ago that whole situation was so weird! What do you think about the Nordstream being blown up and do you have a reference for MBS to cursing Putin about prices I would love to read/hear that lol I wish we could've tapped the phone lines

[@Blackgriffonphoenixg]

I might call you a moron for calling the fears of COVID "irrational" but you are correct in your market analysis. Everyone's smart in something, and you got that down stat.

[@arcanemAl]

"Putin caused the stock market collapse in America" - sounds like a good person to me

[@view1st]

Now let's consider the reason behind the collapse of the oil price - not market forces but geopolitics: a result of an agreement by the USA and Saudi Arabia to deliberately suppress the price of oil to damage the economy of the Soviet Union. It was one of the myriad reasons for the ultimate demise of the Soviet Union, humanities last great hope against neoliberal fascist corporatism and a return to feudalism. I suppose now we'll have to rely on China, but I'm not holding my breath.

[@keithsj10]

@@view1st if you're talking about the late 80's low oil prices I mentioned, OPEC continued demanding further production cuts from all OPEC countries to try and raise the price of oil. Saudi Arabia was the largest oil supplier by far and they had to cut more than other countries because they weren't cutting their production to required levels. Saddam Hussein accused Kuwait of over production and selling their oil to the US. Iraq eventually invaded Kuwait in 1990 and blew up all their oil wells as retribution. The US wasn't working with SA to suppress the price of oil to affect the Soviet Union. If that was happening, SA would've increased their own production, not drastically cut it.

[@fallout560]

Surprised Gorby just straight up stopped alcohol instead of nudging people to something with a lower abv

[@emilholst9789]

The brand "Absolut Vodka" is Swedish tough....sounds like a pety thing to point out but the export was so huge that it kinda saved the Swedish economy at one point.

[@MansuetudoDei]

Hi! @PolyMatter, could you please comment? At 1:46, there's a very strange statistic on screen: Saint Petersburg 1.28, and then Leningrad 0.87. But... that's the same city. Saint Petersburg was called Leningrad till 1991. Maybe you meant 'Leningrad oblast'? It's the region surrounding Saint Petersburg, same as 'Moscow oblast' surrounds the Moscow city.

[@Don-Coyote-De-Transylvania]

Russia is a great place to not live there.

[@gerryhouska2859]

I must confess if I had to live in such brutal barbaric backward primitive place I, too, would try to spend my waking hours in drunken stupor.

[@Don-Coyote-De-Transylvania]

@@gerryhouska2859 understandable

[@Maximilian-o2k]

@gerryhouska2859 You've just never been to Moscow. Russian culture is one of the most original, interesting and great cultures, you should not think in stereotypes and manuals that are hammered into your head by non-independent media

[@dip8690]

@@gerryhouska2859 ахахаха

[@TabbuEme]

@@Maximilian-o2k Exactly, if you only go to like 5 tourist cities in Russia, you will see beauty. Everywhere else is kinda not great.

[@NeostormXLMAX]

they could do smarter subtle things like change the design of vodka to be reusable bottles or smaller cans, like beer for smaller consumption

[@yakovdan]

Great video! One note though: the graphs arent legible sometimes with yellow labels obscuring titles and x-axis labels being too dense

[@katana2k]

I was confused too

[@Blex_040]

2:30 I assume it's for dramatic effect, but that the animation begins with showing that Russia had 1,142 million (aka 1,1 billion) people in 1995 is not helpful in an educational video.

[@ThatGUY666666]

Has there ever been a country more willing to literally throw away the lives of their own people for short term gains or purely out of spite as Russia?

[@insu_na]

spider man is gonna be so mad when he finds out you scribbled all those graphs on his suit

[@Noah_Levy]

My head hurts from laughing at that. Nice.

[@user-ex5pg3oy9c]

Leningrad is Leningrad Oblast, not just Leningrad. Leningrad is an old name of Saint Petersburg

[@patrickjeffers7864]

St Petersburg is an even older name for leningrad😅

[@user-ex5pg3oy9c]

@@patrickjeffers7864 heh, you're not wrong!

[@meg6pat]

"Half of Michigan stadium" how much is it? Why use so specific stuff?

[@melodicseaweed387]

It's a video from the US so they have to show you something from the US that nobody cares about, not even people in the US

[@robinkhn2547]

Cos muricans can't handle actual numbers lol

[@theonlydiego1]

Michigan Stadium is the largest stadium in the United States. According to wikipedia 107,601 official capacity, but it has had crowds over 115,000 attendees.

[@sebastjansslavitis3898]

you must jest? choice for not having kids in Europe is definitely same as in Russia - income and instability. When I lived in UK I didn't know a single family who would own and not rent place they where living in (actually I know some, just remembered). Having children in situation where losing job means all your family ends up on street is madness. No rational person would go for this.

[@danielating1316]

What makes the difference isn't the birth rate being low but the death rate being high.

[@LancesArmorStriking]

While this is true, Russia has a very high rate of home ownership (courtesy of housing being a right in the Soviet Constitution). It's mostly economic and cultural conditions that hinder them

[@Perrirodan1]

The death rate is for older people. In some ways it helps Russia because it means people did just when they would retire, reducing the strain on healthcare and retirement funds.

[@sebastjansslavitis3898]

@@LancesArmorStriking oh yeah, I'm not saying Russia is in a good spot, or we are in the same spot, I just didn't like that he said that we don't choose to have children because we are so cool.. 5:00

[@LancesArmorStriking]

@@sebastjansslavitis3898 Well, it's a broadly pro-Western channel, so it doesn't surprise me that he's given it a "Kremlin bad" slant. You could say that it is, but (as the video points out), even countries with a higher average quality of life are facing an identical problem. So (sadly) it's not as simple of a problem as "just make the government more like the US". I suspect it's just cultural, and an effect of the internet. Women (like... normal people) when given the seemingly consequence-free choice between raising a child and enjoying themselves, are going to pick the latter. The issue is that higher levels of development for women correlate strongly with decreasing birthrate (specifically women, no such correlation for men). So I'm not sure of a way to resolve the issue without redefining what life should be all about. Add to that the Internet (which I think creates a negative feedback loop), and you have a population convinced that it can't change its own trajectory. UK is getting poorer so that certainly won't help in the short-term.

[@Sarnarath]

Am i the only one who thinks all this talk about birthrates is a bit bizarre like we are living in some far away space colony? It's natural to have a bit of population shrink, the high birthrates in many poor countries also create terrible conditions.

[@ChucksSEADnDEAD]

Birth rates are dropping in poorer countries too. Terrible conditions create the high birth rates - not the other way around. Disease and need for labor to feed the family leads to more kids. Once the conditions improve kids can go to school instead of working, so parents have less kids.

[@technetium9653]

The fundamental problem is how long life expectancy is, if old people died like they used to, it would be a manageable decline, now it's a ticking time bomb

[@ayymao1017]

@@technetium9653 It's not. When it comes down to it, the younger and much smaller cohort will not be supporting the larger retiree cohort, they will be left to die or make peace with their families and survive in generational homes. No country is going to suicide itself by focusing all resources on supporting geriatrics past their usefulness as harsh as that sounds. It will take some time for different political systems to adapt to that reality but that is what will happen.

[@hazzmati]

Population shrinkage isn't necessarily a bad thing but an ever increasing aging population definitely is.

[@hazzmati]

Population shrinkage isn't necessarily a bad thing but an ever increasing aging population definitely is.

[@d36williams]

Russia already had it so a couple's first child pushed a couple into poverty. Imagine now a single mother, because husband is shot in Ukraine. For the most part I attribute declining birthrates to the vast gap in wealth that's only grown since the Reagan era. People in Russia have very little hope for the future being better

[@ps3301]

When u r poor and don't want children, u must be very unhappy

[@koharumi1]

14:00 Tbh I didn't realise the USA and Russia health care is that inefficient. Rather unexpected this is

[@FaiziTimber]

Germany entered chat . With all eugenic books

[@metamorphic75]

Gorbachev, a non-drinker, died at age 91. This is in all likelihood an insinuation that is not rooted in fact, but I am sure the fact that he was not a heavy drinker was a net benefit for his health.

[@grantorino2325]

Gorbachev, Medvedev, and Putin all have sobriety to thank for their political power. In a world full of blind men, the one-eyed man is king! 👑

[@qZbGmYjS4QusYqv5]

Gorbachev wasn't a total teatotaller however, according to his secretary memoirs he allowed himself a glass of red wine of champagne from time to time on very important occasions like his wedding anniversary or his jubilee

[@dnotleythere]

​@qZbGmYjS4QusYqv5 Red wine in moderation has some health benefits. Surely, that is better than vodka. It helps with digestion

[@katomine7]

"A long time ago, there used to be this huge country called Russia..."

[@Dakota-c1p]

This should be called Russia 🇭🇺 is running out of " VODKA 🍾🥃" 💬

[@demyrg9887]

Не согласен с выводами. Основная причина низкой продолжительности жизни в России - образ жизни. И его сложно описать. С одной стороны это сплошной стресс (работа, решение сложных жизненных ситуаций и отношений). С другой это или малоподвижный вредный характер офисной деятельности или наоборот тяжёлая физическая работа на износ. Другим фактором является отсутствие организованной проверки здоровья. А платная - очень дорогая и бесполезная и на неё часто нет времени. По поводу рождаемости - очень просто. Все хотят высокий уровень жизни, и не хотят заводить семью до получения высокооплачиваемой работы. Особенно это требование сильно со стороны женщин. В целом я считаю основным источником этих социальных проблем - сырьевую капиталистическую экономику, направленную на извлечение прибыли из всех аспектов человеческой деятельности.

[@NewBuildmini]

Данные взяты у западных "независимых" источников, чему тут удивляться)

[@DarkDoggD]

Водка + пальмовое масло = наше все!

[@virgilius7036]

ты все равно ничего не понимаешь. Именно капитализм позволяет нам создавать богатство и, следовательно, увеличивать возможности людей. Вы ничего не понимаете в переменах в Китае, где раньше люди умирали от голода?

[@HagiaFantasia]

​@@DarkDoggD I think Putin should change his stance on Cannabis. It relieves pain, stimulates fertility especially in men, and promotes happiness and creativity. I think it would be great for Russia.

[@rusty6172]

Nobody tell them: all industrial countries have a demographic crisis

[@davidroosa4561]

except we make it up with immigration

[@E4439Qv5]

Even so, Russia's is _worse._

[@NewBuildmini]

@@davidroosa4561 So does Russia, with Muslim people like Tajiks, Kyrgyzs, and Uzbeks, and it's not going well. A lot of them do not respect the laws or culture and commit various crimes. They form diasporas (which behave more like gangs) in order to "protect" themselves.

[@johnnamkeh1290]

Not the ones who have large immigration. Like, the stupidest thing is UK government's toppling over each other, but the only thing keeping their economy running is the thing they hate most; Migration.

[@murenamurenaa]

Only Russia have different causes than other countries.

[@SpartasEdge]

If i lived in Russia; i wouldn't want to bring a child into that either.

[@SpartasEdge]

@kak42 That just isn't true. Most people don't live in a brutal dictatorship which Russia is.

[@SpartasEdge]

@kak42 Most people have democracy, freedom of speech and protest; and not pushed into a needless war as cannon fodder.

[@name5702]

5:02 encouraging teenage pregnancy is crazy lmao

[@edgarallanpoe209]

seriously lmfao id rather the population decline than have 16 year olds give birth wtf 😭

[@evgeniydragondog]

There is a tv show in russia "pregnant in 16" which is acts as propaganda of early motherhood.

[@LordVarkson]

Teen pregnancy is the standard across all of history. It's only modern day that we have aberrant ideas about sex and sexuality.

[@qZbGmYjS4QusYqv5]

@@evgeniydragondog it was licensed from the American one AFAIK

[@evgeniydragondog]

@@qZbGmYjS4QusYqv5 don't know about is American version. but Ukrainian version showed this as very hard and exhausting thing that scares teenagers of early pregnancy. And propagates responsibility. But russian version do the opposite. Shows that irresponsibility is ok and everyone will be happy if child will give birth another child.

[@karthikps4889]

"larger than france" , "population fills less than half of michigan statium" , "machine guns greater than mcdonalds"...are americans audience afraid of numbers?

[@E4439Qv5]

Not numbers, no. Just the Metric system.

[@reptipis148]

Almost every country in the world has a lower birth rate than replacement rate. So it is not just Russia which loses people

[@downey2294]

they explained that in the video. you didn't watch it all did you?

[@RallenBosessen]

Thank you for shedding light on this and connecting all the dots in such an understandable way. That was fascinating.

[@ximxannam]

Lenin ran on banning alcohol all togeather but stalin opened the imperial vodka factories back up after .

[@qZbGmYjS4QusYqv5]

Bolsheviks at first lifted Tzar Niclos alcohol ban then quickly put it back when revolution started drowning in vodka. AFAIK the ban was lifted again during NEP but don't quote me on that

[@seto_kaiba_]

Didn't the Soviet population peak at near 300 million? Granted that's the entire union--not just Russia.

[@Adilulph]

This country has no future

[@t3004llgd]

Russian economy is based on selling natural resources so they don't need so many people.

[@zoladkow]

ehh... perspective of having a child just so it can be sent to yet another special military something as cannon fodder is rather a poor incentive

[@harravarilharravaril7966]

The video claims the population of the Soviet Union was 149 million in the 1980s , that's completely wrong. It was 286 million in 1989.

[@antred11]

2:06 "In the 1980s, the Soviet Union had one of the highest birth rates in Europe. Its population peaked at nearly 149 million." Err, what?? The Soviet Union's population peaked closer to 300 million than the number you gave.

[@bencarter2334]

Is that not because there were more states included with in the union, after the union collapsed in 91 places like Ukraine become independent and therefore not included with the 300 million.

[@antred11]

@@bencarter2334 Yes, I think he is somehow conflating the entirety of the Soviet Union with just Russia.

[@apstrike]

Russia's defense industrial base is running flat out and its increases in production beyond prewar levels indicates that while there is a brain drain and people are fleeing, there are also contrary trends.

[@dianapennepacker6854]

All countries can run on a war time economy for some time. Look at how long Nazi Germany fought. Yet it will catch up. Just it will take a few years.

[@Silver_Prussian]

There is no brian drain, nobody is fleeing. Interest among the youngest parts of the population about leaving was 18%. Thats is nothing. And how can we talk about a brain drain when russia has had a massive influx of ukrainian russian speakers after the invasion bagen in 2022.

[@krisztianschneider4633]

Military production significantly increasing while at war? That is a big surprise indeed

[@tacitus6384]

Russian "defense" industry.

[@lmnk]

Most fleed people did come back though, mainly because of running out of money or not being able to find a job outside. So the vast majority of emigrants are either ones who can work remotely (mainly IT folks) or famous people.

[@noelsokolowski730]

I think every Italian will tell you that it is the extreme price of raising a child that lowered the fertility rate so extremely

[@malachi8154]

15:08 is where you can see the year Putin announced "running" for a third term. 2011-2012 is where all hope of democracy - and therefore normality - in the russia have truly died, and when everyone with money, brains, or both have started planning for a future elsewhere. If not for themselves, then for their kinds. Take a lesson from this, if you can. Protect democracy at all costs, but if that fails - try your hardest to leave sooner, rather than later.

[@rcchin7897]

@m: Reminds me too much about residents and businesses leaving California, but I digress. :/

[@Drragnorr]

In the fertility rate table you have both St. Petersburg and Leningrad,which are the same place, with different numbers.

[@mnkwazi]

LOL

[@viciv7104]

Leningradskaya oblast I think. And SPb itself.

[@misha6022]

Well, as a russian, I find this video both shockingly accurate and depressing, because i was just reminded of something i was taught in high school, about the economic disasters of 80s and 90s, and what is left now. Too bad we are in that big of a shithole, that is too deep to climb from.

[@Bvggerffpls]

Whoever designed that thumbnail deserves a raise 😂👏

[@MrJakson112]

Who ever designed the thumbnail needs google, Absolut is swedish?

[@tobene]

​@@MrJakson112So what? Vodka is vodka

[@Emeret.]

Finally someone explained this situation for English speaking part of KZbin! I am familiar with current russian situation, and it's just so weird for me to see that people discussing war in Ukraine and saying things like "There is so many people in Russia! How can Ukraine win against Russia when it's population is like 3-4 times smaller?" The answer is actually quite simple - population is big but mostly old and/or female, so there is very limited amount of young healthy men who will agree to go to army instead of running away or invent some excuse to not going to the army... Not to mention the fact of really low birth rates. Knowledge is power! Peace for the world 🕊️

[@generaldreagonlps6889]

It isn't helping that it is estimated that so far 1 in 250 russian men have been killed in Ukraine.

[@guxershmeg]

Still a lot of people in cities of Russia. And a lot of them in the middle of day do nothing. Especially women. I mean they are not working just walk from like barbershop to nails then do shopping, then eat in restaurants. So much available work force. And they are pretty young. Like 20-30 years old.

[@Redmenace96]

This is what I find in most Third World countries I visit. There are so, so many people doing nothing in the middle of a work day. Is it lack of opportunity, or just human condition of choosing leisure instead of work?

[@guxershmeg]

@@Redmenace96 yes they are lazy. And often there is somebody in family, who works. These young people just chose to have sex, drugs and rock n roll.