Eupraxsophy

Secular humanist, freethinker, progressive, and bibliophile. I love living life, learning things, and meeting people.

Notice the significant lack of men after age 65? That is mostly a legacy of World War II: the Soviet Union, which did the bulk of the fighting in Europe, lost anywhere from 17 to 26 million people, most of them young men. An entire generation was nearly wiped out in some of the most brutal and large scale combat in history.  So to this day, Russia has a sex-imbalance (as do Belarus and Ukraine, where most of the biggest battles in the war took place). Russia’s population would be approximately 3 to 4 times higher were it not for the horrific toll of WWII. However, high rates of suicide and alcoholism also contribute, perhaps in relation to the trauma stemming from the war and Stalin’s oppression. That’s a scale of death and devastation few societies have ever know. 

Notice the significant lack of men after age 65? That is mostly a legacy of World War II: the Soviet Union, which did the bulk of the fighting in Europe, lost anywhere from 17 to 26 million people, most of them young men. An entire generation was nearly wiped out in some of the most brutal and large scale combat in history. 

So to this day, Russia has a sex-imbalance (as do Belarus and Ukraine, where most of the biggest battles in the war took place). Russia’s population would be approximately 3 to 4 times higher were it not for the horrific toll of WWII. However, high rates of suicide and alcoholism also contribute, perhaps in relation to the trauma stemming from the war and Stalin’s oppression. That’s a scale of death and devastation few societies have ever know. 

9 months ago

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