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Oh Crap! re: PUTIN Copies Netanyahu & BOMBS Childrens' Hospital Injuring 53

'I Need MORE Troops' -Deranged Putin Orders Russian Women to Have Eight or More Children

Vladimir Putin told Russian women they needed to be having 'eight or more children' as his war in Ukraine worsens a dive in the population and makes them reluctant to start new families

BBC 29 NOV 2023









The huge country of 143.4 million people has seen a huge dive in birth rates over recent years - with the president's disastrous invasion of Ukraine blamed for putting off even more people from having kids.


And with an estimated over 100,000 troops now dead since fighting started, he is now demanding that Russians go back to the tsarist era, when large families were more common. Putin himself is believed to have at least six children to three different partners - although he only publicly admits to two daughters.

In a controversial new video, he instructed Russians to give birth to more children - and promised they would get state support for “motherhood”. Putin said: “Thank God many of our people have a tradition of a strong multi-generational family, raising four, five and more children.

Let us remember how in Russian families many of our grandmothers and great grandmothers had seven, eight, or even more children. Let's preserve and revive these wonderful traditions. Having many children, a large family, should become a norm, a way of life for all the peoples of Russia. A family is not just the foundation for state and society, it is a spiritual phenomenon, the source of morality.”

He added that "support for family, motherhood, childhood should cover the work of all areas of government "without exception", with economic, social, infrastructure policies, education and health care among the areas where the principle would be applied. His plea follows a 555,000 fall in the Russian population in the first year of Putin’s war, with many families now too nervous to start or increase their families as more men are sent off to the front line.

Russia's crashing economy also discourages families from having children, according to demographers. The average number of babies per woman is currently 1.42 - well below the replacement rate of 2.1. His country is also making abortions harder to get, with several regions banning them in private clinics.




Putin keeps his private life secret, but his daughter Katerina Tikhonova, 37, is a dancer-turned-mathematician
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