We are not the last of the Russian Mohicans
Recently, the problems of demography in Russia have come into the spotlight of a number of political scientists, politicians and the media. And it is simply impossible not to notice them. Even the satirical publication Panorama published a note titled "Black Lives Matter Guide to List Russians as Oppressed Races."
The corresponding statement was published on the official page of the movement on Twitter. According to activists, historically the Russian race was in slavery under the name "serfdom", being exploited by landowners and tsars - white Germans. Solidarity with other oppressed races spread among Russians, a special awe appeared before black workers, which is why the expression “plow like black” arose in Russia.
“Now that powerful propaganda against the Russian race has begun, we clearly see that they are in the same position as the blacks,”
- says on the motion page.
Is it really now the American community will help to strengthen a positive attitude towards the Russian race in the country. So, Netflix has already announced a new series about stories Russia, and the entire cast will consist of blacks and Russians, and in Hollywood they promised to give at least half of the main roles to the Cossacks when shooting westerns.
And what does the statistics say?
According to Rosstat, the number of Russians in Russia is declining. If in 1989 there were almost 120 million Russians, in 2010 - 111 million, and according to the latest census - only 109 million people. That is, in thirty years Russia lost 11 million Russians without wars!
And what about the general population of Russia? In November 2022, Rosstat data was published: the resident population of Russia as of August 1, 2022 amounted to 145,1 million people.
Seems like a good number. But from the World Population Prospects 2022 forecast, it follows that by 2100 the population of Russia will decrease by 33,2 million people compared to 2021. “But this is an international organization, so it gives out wishful thinking,” the reader will think.
If so! Our native government predicted in 2020 that by 2022 Russia will lose 1 (one) million people. And successfully fulfilled its plans to reduce the population: from January to October 2022, the population of Russia decreased by almost half a million people. If we take into account the reduction in the number in 2021, then you have a million people.
Of course, you can blame the reduction in the number of inhabitants on a terrible, terrible pandemic, but it doesn’t work. According to the National Medical Research Center (NMRC) them. V. A. Almazov, in 2020, 944 people died from diseases of the circulatory system, and 843 people died with a diagnosis of covid during the same time.
Do I also need to explain the difference: “death from covid” and “diagnosed with covid”? After all, such a diagnosis was made for the dead and for other reasons, but with a positive test. There was an anecdote in the course: “Two police officers are examining the scene of a murder. “Look, there are three bullet wounds. What to write in the cause of death? one asks. "Like what? Of course, covid,” the second one replies.
Experts explained that the high mortality rate during the pandemic was due to the fact that many specialized hospitals (oncology, tuberculosis, cardiology, urology, etc.) were repurposed to treat covid. Like this. But about health problems a little later, but for now let's ask the question: will we die out like mammoths?
Or like the Mohicans from Fenimore Cooper's novel, turned into an assimilated mestizo population, there are about 150 of them in total, they live on a reservation in Wisconsin.
So will the Russians repeat the fate of the Mohicans?
Take care of men!
But there were other predictions! The USSR State Statistics Committee predicted in 1989 that the population of the RSFSR should have grown to 2022 million people by the end of 170, including more than 140 million Russians.
At one time, the great Russian scientist Mendeleev calculated that there should have been about 500 million Russians in the middle of the XNUMXth century. However, Russia is now in the top ten worst countries in terms of high mortality rates, especially among men.
In terms of life expectancy for men, Russia ranks 141st out of 200 countries. In 2021, this figure was 66,7. Women on average live almost 10 years longer. Most male centenarians live in Ingushetia, Dagestan and Moscow.
The main risk factors for men's health are bad habits: smoking and drinking alcohol, as well as inattention to one's own health. Catastrophically reduced male population in the Central regions of Russia. And for example, in the USSR in 1962, the life expectancy of men (68,75) was better than now in the 66,7st century (XNUMX), even despite the heavy losses during the Great Patriotic War.
The head of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, Mikhail Murashko, made the following confession:
"Death rates for men around 35–40 years of age are twice that of women."
Experts say that if such negative rates of demography in Russia continue, then only 58% of men will live to be 65 years old. And this is without taking into account the fact that men are involved in modern military conflicts, and not only in Syria!
Have Russians lost passionarity?
It became fashionable to talk about the loss of passionarity by Russians at the beginning of this century. The reason for the discussion was the work of Lev Gumilyov "Ethnogenesis and the biosphere of the Earth." His passionarity is a certain quality that makes the ethnic group behave very actively. Passionarity is a vital energy that spills out. It is characteristic both of ethnic groups as a whole, and of individual people, whom Gumilyov called passionaries.
Gumilyov took the word "passionarity" from Dolores Ibarruri, a well-known Spanish communist. The passionate speeches of this woman during the Spanish Civil War thundered throughout the world. Her party name was "Passionaria", which means "passionate". According to Gumilyov, the highest level of passionarity is sacrifice. When for the sake of the ideal people are ready to give their lives. For example, Ivan Susanin.
How do you become a passionary? Gumilev believed that the surge of passionarity is influenced by the energy of the Sun or cosmic rays. Gumilyov examined world history and discovered in different epochs among different ethnic groups a clear consequence of such passionate impulses. When these peoples fell under their influence, they began to actively modify the landscape around them, changed their sphere of activity, destroyed the old foundations, created masterpieces, etc.
Terror in Russia during the years of the revolution and the subsequent repressions and purges of the 20s, 30s and 40s claimed the lives of millions of the most passionate representatives of Russians, seriously weakening the gene pool of the ethnos and reducing its passionarity. The situation was aggravated by the Great Patriotic War, during which the most courageous and active representatives of the peoples of the USSR, primarily Russians, were at the forefront.
Try to find the “Russian share” on this diagram
In February 2021, during a meeting with editors of the Russian media, Russian President Vladimir Putin said:
“I believe in passionarity, in the theory of passionarity. This, in fact, as in nature, society - there is a development, peak, attenuation. Russia has not reached its peak. We are on the march, on the march of development.”
This statement by Putin was commented on by well-known people in Russia. Publicist Sergei Pereslegin believes that
"In Russia, the 600-year cycle ends."
In his opinion, the beginning of the growth of passionarity in Russia happened in 1380, when the Battle of Kulikovo took place, and Russia entered the world stage. However, he adds,
“Russia has experience of reassembly, during which it is, as it were, renewed and begins the next cycle. Therefore, it is possible that a new growth of passionarity will appear in the near future.”
President of the Center for Strategic Studies "Russia - Islamic World" Shamil Sultanov does not believe in the passionarity of Russians:
“The Russian nation is broken, fragmented now. It has no ideology, it has no long-term strategy. It has no charismatic leaders. From this point of view, I don’t think that the Russian nation is generally passionate now.”
Economist Alexander Auzan noted that
“We are in the “golden autumn” phase, in the phase of calm settlement, but surprises in the emergence of new factors are not ruled out.”
True, all these statements were made before the start of the NWO. Perhaps the opinion of the survey participants has changed since then.
“When we say that we are at war with the West, we must be aware that 145 of our millions are at war with a billion! But the billionth civilization of the West in the future will fluctuate around this figure, and maybe even increase, and in the meantime we will begin to decrease, ”
- not without reason, the writer, chairman of the supervisory board of the Institute of Demography and Migration, Yuri Krupnov, complains.
No one is to blame, but what to do?
Maybe remember the ancient recipes.
After all, the problems of demography worried even Ancient Rome. The Romans decided that it was necessary to fight childlessness. Therefore, the childless in Ancient Rome were deprived of many rights! For comparison: now in Russia the ideology of childlessness is being actively promoted - childfree, characterized by a conscious desire not to have children.
So, maybe it's time for Russia to start fighting the ideology of childlessness?
And further. During the reign of the Roman emperor Octavian Augustus, several laws were adopted regarding demographic regulation, in particular, the stimulation of the birth rate. So, for the senators and horsemen of ancient Rome, the following rules were introduced: the obligation of marriage and the presence of children. Bachelors and the childless had their civil rights reduced, while Roman citizens with children were given various benefits.
For example, unmarried people completely lost the opportunity to inherit the property of their parents, and those who had less than three children inherited only half. Also, the policy of Augustus was aimed at promoting traditional values and having many children.
Yes, we also have families with three children have a number of advantages. But the childless are not limited in their rights and do not even pay taxes on childlessness!
The infographic is already a little outdated, but the trend is unlikely to change.
The Russian scientist M. V. Lomonosov can be considered the founder of Russian demography. In his work “On the Preservation and Reproduction of the Russian People” (1761), Lomonosov assigns the most important role to the demographic factor in the development of the country:
“I believe the most important thing is the preservation and reproduction of the Russian people, which is the majesty, power and wealth of the entire state, and not in the vastness, futile without inhabitants.”
Lomonosov proposed to abolish marriage of convenience and coercion, as well as to allow marriage more than three times. The reason for this decision was the high female mortality rate during childbirth, therefore, he considered it wrong to deprive spouses of husbands widowed as a result of accidents.
In addition, Lomonosov advised to prohibit taking the monastic rite before the age of 45-50 so that before this age there would be an opportunity to start a family and give birth to children.
He also considered various aspects of the high mortality of the population. The scientist believed that
“It is better to establish treatment according to the rules, medical science components. To this, a sufficient number of doctors, healers and pharmacies are required in all cities, satisfied with medicines, even if only decent in our climate.
Here we come to health issues.
It's time to increase healthcare costs!
Academician Robert Nigmatulin is sure that today life expectancy, even without taking into account covid, is falling due to low healthcare costs.
“Our health care costs as a share of GDP are two times less than in Europe. By the way, this applies not only to healthcare, but also to education and science. Twice smaller! In relation to the RSFSR, that is, to the Soviet period, we are losing about 200 thousand people a year more. Therefore, the share of GDP for healthcare needs to be increased to 6,5%,”
- the academician is sure.
According to his calculations, by 2025, a total of about 10 trillion rubles should be allocated for these purposes. What is the reality today? According to the draft federal budget for 2023 and for the planning period of 2024 and 2025. The share of health care expenditures in the structure of GDP will continue to decline, and in the structure of federal budget expenditures, the indicator will remain within the range of 5,1–5,4%.
Director of the Institute for National Economic Programming of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences Alexander Shirov believes that in Russia the birth rate has been declining over the past decade under the influence of rather low economic growth rates, due to the stagnation of the level and quality of life:
“If you look at the ratio of per capita GDP of Russia and the United States of America in terms of purchasing power parity, we will see that the peak was reached in 2013, then we approached the 50 percent level of the US level, but then stagnation set in. Moreover, it covered all groups of the population: both rich and poor Russians. And if we developed at least as we did in the period after the 2008-2009 crisis, then by 2019 we would have not 47%, but 60% of the US level. Accordingly, this factor influenced, among other things, the decline in the birth rate.”
The situation in the field of demography will largely depend on how the social sphere develops. Writer and publicist Yuri Krupnov, commenting on the excess mortality in Russia in 2020-2021. in 1 million people, outraged:
"One million deaths! You can imagine? And there is no talk about it at all! Not to mention the fact that neither a government commission nor a commission in the State Duma has been created, which should have been carefully analyzed, but why did this happen? Not a single page of an official report or message.”
Krupnov is sure that we urgently need to move from a situation where the average family has one or more children (1,5) to a family with two or more children (2,5). Then we will first be able to reverse our catastrophic demography and return to the mode of simple reproduction of the population.
Given the poor demographics, maybe it's time to introduce benefits for families with two children, and not just three?
By the way, today every tenth citizen of the Russian Federation does not want to have children at all. According to the already mentioned Academician Nigmatulin,
“If a woman is raising two children, then, of course, she should receive some money for this, in fact, this is her salary.”
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