Vyacheslav Volodin, the speaker of the lower house of parliament and an ally of President Vladimir Putin, said a new bill would tackle the “ideology of childlessness.”
Russia’s fight against the West and its values has taken aim this week at an “ideology” that the Kremlin and its allies say threatens the country’s very foundations: people not wanting to have children.
Lawmakers have proposed a ban on “propaganda of conscious refusal to bear children,” Vyacheslav Volodin, the speaker of the lower house of parliament and an ally of President Vladimir Putin, said in a post on Telegram on Tuesday.
It is the latest effort by authorities to combat the demographic strain of falling birth rates, exacerbated by the war in Ukraine, which the Kremlin says could threaten the country’s long-term outlook. In July, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov called Russia’s declining birth rate “catastrophic for the future of the nation.”
Can we get the .ml crew in here to explain why this is actually good and freedom? Because I’m a little confused.
Come on, .ml, tell us how the west has fallen and Russia is the last true bastion of civilization and people’s rights. We’re waiting.
At the most the only thing that can be said is that the article says “could” and a law is “proposed”. That is already concerning but it is not reality yet at least.
I don’t know enough about Russian law if this maybe just means the guy told another guy while taking a piss in a toilet or if there was an official meeting and tomorrow it is voted on.
I too am curious what this has to do with socialism and how it is not simply campist brain rot.
We’re waitinggg…
Should we make a society that people want to bring a child into??
Nah lol
💡If we simply make it illegal to… not have children? No, that’s not right. Not want to have children? No, impossible to enforce. Ah, it must be illegal to profess the lack of desire to have children. What a beautiful and simple law that will certainly address the root cause of falling birth rates.
This is what JD Vance wants for America
Under His eye.
Uncle vlad needs meat for his glorious meat grinder
You know, I would bet there’s tens of thousands of Russians that would be interested in having children if they didn’t all have a case of unnecessary deadness. If only something could have been done to avoid that.
But if you can’t send them to get gunned down in a foreign land, what is even the point of having more children? Do you hear yourself?
How long ‘til this becomes a GOP plank?
It already is, basically.
Keep making life shitty and it will happen all on its own anyway. Hell making it a law might Streisand Effect it.
Here’s this one cool hack they don’t want you to know about. Governments hate it!
Does anyone know the strategic reason for right wing authoritarians prioritizing people having kids? Like project 2025 talks about it a bunch, but nothing totally clear cut comes to mind as to why. At least not that feels like it fully justifies how clearly important it is, and that isn’t just me dismissing it as meaningless control or whatever. It feels strategically important
In this case it’s clearly important militarily, but that’s also not likely to help in the present conflict in Ukraine. It’ll take a long time for those kids to grow up, but at least they’d help mitigate population loss
More working class children means that there will be more people to exploit in the future. The size of the working class population is extremely important for the generation of wealth because they’re basically the only ones doing productive labour.
Obsession with control, including control over future generations
Traditional values used to subjugate women. That’s really it. The same reason they hate abortion. Pregnancy and children are traditionally ways to control womem. “Keep em barefoot and pregnant” and so forth.
They want to grow the population in order to have more workers and consumers. There’s also a white nationalist component where they’re afraid that white people will become a minority and they’ll use this demographic power to agitate for more equality, which is basically oppression to those people (because if it was only about economic growth, they’d be pro migration).
The wealthy are running a massive pyramid scheme and need a constant influx of plebs to support the bottom tiers.
Putler absolutely would send preteens to Ukraine if he started running out of adults.
Corporations need consumers (constant growth model). Military needs more living soldiers.
Yeah, I guess that feels like the obvious reason. It just feels like there’s gotta be something more immediate and tangible. Maybe there isn’t though 🤷🏻♂️
believe it or not, straight to jail
No matter what you do, right to jail
Fertility clinic
I hate headlines with the word could. Remind me when it has or is. I could become a billionaire but it’s highly unlikely I will. Just like her fine or the arrest of Putin.
I think there’s a time between “This thing is possible I guess” and “you’re already fucked” that I’d like to hear about things.
A commendable effort by Russia to discourage the promotion of human extinction.
Explain, please.
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