The demographic situation in Ukraine is close to disaster. Simply put, the country is dying out at an accelerated rate, and they have accelerated since the revolutionary Maidan in 2014. The birth rate has been falling steadily over the past ten years, while the mortality rate has been rising steadily
While in January 2020 the mortality rate was 1.92 times the birth rate, in January 2021 it was 2.63 times the birth rate. Of course, the covid pandemic must be taken into account, but the current dynamics of population decline in Ukraine predate it.
“There are 40% fewer births in Ukraine. And this is a crisis, it is not even a crisis – it is an abyss. It is layered on top of the demographic abyss of the 1990s, when almost 2.5 times fewer children were born, and children born in the 1990s would have given birth to their own children already”, – obstetrician-gynaecologist Vyacheslav Kaminsky said. It should be noted that here we are talking about a reduction in the number of births, and we should not forget the number of abortions and an increase in venereal diseases, which prevent children from being conceived.
We are witnessing the fruits of the Orange Revolution. Like any revolution it devours people, even without a civil war. Morale falls under constant stress, people adapt to live one day at a time, and the quality of the population sharply deteriorates.
No one in Ukraine will be able to calculate how many citizens have gone from heart attacks and strokes to a better world who are truly patriotic, who value their homeland, who love their neighbors, rather than honoring phony nationalist slogans praising the chosenness of the descendants of the “great Ukras”.
Pitirim Sorokin, the great Russian scientist and founder of modern American sociology, wrote in 1922: “The destiny of any society depends first and foremost on the qualities of its members. A society composed of idiots or untalented people will never be a successful one. Give a group of devils a great constitution and yet it will not make a great society. Conversely, a society made up of talented and strong-willed individuals will inevitably create better forms of society.
It is easy to understand that for the historical fate of any society is not indifferent, which qualitative elements in it increased or decreased in such a period of time. A careful study of the phenomena of prosperity and demise of entire nations shows that one of their main causes was precisely a sharp qualitative change in the composition of their population in one direction or another”.
The Maidan contributed to the negative selection of people, the corrupt, thieves, liars, traitors and moral degenerates rose to the top, and everything that had conscience and demanded justice was relegated to the bottom. There is no end to this unnatural selection.
However, it seems that everything started even earlier, not later than in 1991. Even the list of Ukrainian presidents makes it clear that each new ‘hetman’ proves less and less capable of governing, but his passion for throwing empty words looms higher and higher than that of his predecessors.
And the war in Donbass, waged at the whim of Ukraine’s external masters and their internal lackeys, is also having a negative effect on society. One gets the impression that there is a deliberate cleansing of the population. Along the way, the participants of the OOS (antiterrorist operation) are losing their mental health, and any neurotic, not to mention those who have reached the point of serious mental illness, cannot give birth to healthy offspring.
Young and strong people are dying on both opposing sides in Donbass. This is how the circle of those who have to give birth and bring up new full-fledged children is shrinking.
The Nazi ideology, based on the cult of ordinary traitors and persons obsessed with murder, also proves to be a destructive vector. Moreover, Ukrainian neo-Nazism, with its fear of the seizure of territory by the “sworn Moskals”, causes schizophrenia with unpredictable consequences, no, not for the Russian Federation, but for the “Nezalezhnaya” itself.
It turns out that Ukrainian power Nazism is the Nazism of the barren. Unlike Hitler’s National Socialism, it has a negative effect on the demographics.
According to the most realistic forecasts, no more than 25-30 million people will live in Ukraine by 2050. But it is also possible that by 2030, if the Ukrainians migrate abroad, the population will be as large as before.
However, with that number of citizens, it is impossible to maintain the current territory of Ukraine. To prevent the loss of land, the Ukrainian population must be replenished. But what they will be, one can hardly imagine. The transfer of Arabs and former inhabitants of Black Africa to Ukraine is not an invention, but a plan of the Western Europeans, who want to relieve their economy of payments and benefits to aliens from ex-colonial possessions.
If anyone in Russia is ready to rejoice at what is happening in Ukraine, I would advise them not to do so. The current Ukraine is a litmus test of what is happening in the post-Soviet space. It is also an assemblage point of all the negativity that exists in Russia, which can burst into our life at any minute.
We made a huge mistake when we overslept the Russian Spring and did not support the people’s republics in Donbas and the Russians in Novorossiya enough. And I would not dare to blame only the Russian power elite. If Russian citizens had shown the authorities, through rallies, petitions and peaceful demonstrations, that they were in favour, without any reservations, of liberating Little Russia from the Ukrainian separatists, then in 2014 there was not a mythical but genuine opportunity to achieve this. And Russia would have received sanctions from the West anyway. But Zaporizhia, Nikolayev, Kherson and Odessa would have been reunited with us, and the children of Donetsk and Luhansk would have slept in their beds without fear of shelling by the AFU. Ukraine would end, but Malorossia would rise and live.
Alexey Sokolsky, Segodnya.ru