Russia is Running Out of People

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Editing by José Gámez
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[Lord_Inquisitor]

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

[holyelliw]

>Swedish vodka on the thumbnail
Complete European cultural victory

[donaZor]

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

[prettypic]

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.

[midanbrah]

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

[HomesteadAce]

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

[sadhoshi]

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

[giraffe_]

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

[abbofun]

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

[alexandershtumpf]

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

[kieferkarpfen]

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

[krankenhaus]

Next move "ban condoms and birth control pills".

[sirensynapse]

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.

[StevenEveral]

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

[SuperSmashDolls]

Broke: Russia is a gas station masquerading as a country

Woke: Russia is a bar masquerading as a country

[rerun]

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

[harperwelch]

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

[zollen]

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.

[mitchrichards]

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

[patavinity]

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.