Russia is Running Out of People
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Putin visiting a town to tell people to have more sex is gold lmao
yeah, they have to make babies like factories to replace the thousands lost in the meat wave attacks every month
Believe it or not, but Americans see Russia as a model society, including having such a low birth rate. Americans dont even realise they need more immigration if they want to achieve such things.
Ukraine lost 1/3 of it's people simply to become refugees, either they leave to the west or to Russia, further millions live in Russia occupied area, and hundreds of thousands are dead in the frontline and keep growing, Ukraine already have demographic crisis before the war, after this, they have a demographic catastrophe, funnily enough, nobody speak about that
@@azumishimizu1880
American here, those people are idiots and don't represent all or even most of us.
@@azumishimizu1880 Uhh...most Americans do NOT view Russia as a "model society". I'm sure there are some fringe extremists who do, but they're probably the same folks cheering on the invasion of Ukraine, so we can safely ignore their opinions
Imagine 25% of your budget coming from selling a drug to your own population
Reasonable in PUTLERs MAFIA STATE.
CIA: coughs awkwardly
@caligero3000 That's some strong copium you are using on the side.
@@caligero3000 St. Petersburg isn't only city in Russia to extrapolate this to whole country, ahem.
Muh America!
Whataboutism.
Classic russian propaganda.
@@TheKeeperofChaos
Title should read "Vodka is running out of Russia!"
I have a better one
,,A guide to fooling people with statistics and bias 101"
All Russians if they saw that title: "SACRILEGE!"
Edit: Sorry I misread that and thought it said "Russia is running out of vodka" XD
Slava TSMC 🇹🇼
Russians
Sounds like those vodka grew a pair of legs or something
Shipping young dads off to war to die in meat-waves doesn’t help
Especially in such a stupid and pointless war.
lol "meat wave" "ukraine is winning" " Russia is almost over" "Crimea will be ukraine in 2022" "2023" "2024"
@@jeffbrunswick5511 It's like you lot are all churned out from the same printing press with the same wars lmao. what a horrid society.
You watch too much CNN and MSNBC
There is a reason countries exempt fathers from wars. If Russia had a three child policy to gain exemption from the war there population problem would be solved with teenagers desperately breeding to keep the army away!
>Swedish vodka on the thumbnail
Complete European cultural victory
Yeah I came here to comment about the Swedish vodka in the thumbnail! 😅
Europe is getting more irrelevant year by year, though.
@@GrigRP but there alcohol isn't and that's what matters.
It would be a cultural victory if the vodka was from the country that invented it. Poland.
@@DavidBennettPianofancy seeing you here
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.
Where is the fun in this fact?
@@boatymcboatface4120Fun fact: Most fun facts use “fun” pretty liberally
@@boatymcboatface4120the fun is before the fact. Then there's sadness.
Fun lie: not true the average life expectancy of males in russia is 70.8 years. And the only reason its lower is because many people do not go for regular check up at the doctor so they develop bad cardio-vascular disease before being able to receive treatment in time.
@@MrBluman999the sadness is how many of you believe things which arent true
2:14 149 million might refer to the RFSR, not the Soviet Union. Soviet Union's population peaked at 290 million.
RSFSR
Ukraine lost 1/3 of it's people simply due to refugees, either they leave to the west or to Russia, further millions live in Russia occupied area, and hundreds of thousands are dead in the frontline and keep growing, Ukraine already have demographic crisis before the war, after this, they have a demographic catastrophe, funnily enough, nobody speak about that
Russian Federation of federated Russians in the Socialist Soviet People's State of Russia
WTFSR
Thanks
I was thinking the same thing
There's a common phrase you'll find in most Russian history:
"...And then it got worse."
"сommon phrase" is a key word here: i`m actually very curious, what does "common phrase you`ll find in most Russian history" means?) Cause it`s sounds like a typical thing that a "regular human" would say. Didn`t study history, doesn`t have a degree in it, but "knows" it, cause watched many YT videos and saw many comments which are he repeats. Classic. Regular human having no clue about science. Maybe you didn`t study it - but that`s like your own problem, that doesn`t mean that it is like that. Where should i "find" that phrase in "most Russian history"? Who said it? Random YT user and than other people just repeating that phrase like they always do? You can imagine anything you wan: that Australia is in Europe and Austria is a continent, that Switzerland is a Scandinavian country and Sweden is located in Alps, that Africa is a country and that Russian history can be described by one random phrase, just because you lived like during the time in which people don`t remember anything about Russia besides USSR and Russia is like more than a thousand-year old country.
хотелось как лучше, получилось как всегда
Yeah its not true.
Many periods of russian history which were great. Many periods when other countries suffered and russia didnt.
@@Silver_Prussianthen it got worse
@@Silver_Prussian I have read a lot of the history of Russia and it can be summarized as: The Tzar took more power, with this power he played with the aristocrats and they exploited the people more to take advantage wanting a favor of the Tzar
That is the reason why they were the first nation to take the path of communism
Next move "ban condoms and birth control pills".
And ban abortions, of course.
@@surelyyoujokemeinfailure7531, and decriminalize rape if it leads to pregnancy..
Jokes aside, these steps aren't that far from what parliament members say out loud.
Rumania tried that (Decrete 770), it doesn't work. Results? Poorer families for having children they can't afford, and more children in orphanages. @@surelyyoujokemeinfailure7531
That will give rise to black market which would be bad cuz it is unregulated.
@@speedbird-777True, however people who advocate that typically don't care about the health and safety of people. Its more just a desperate attempt to make their funny number go up regardless of circumstance.
2:36 Japan's race to the bottom in this list is both hilarious and sad
Economists can talk all the rubbish they want, but Japan will still have one of the highest standards of living of any country in the world. Niger's population is booming and it is pure misery there.
now, there is a country that needs to have more sex. Strange for a country where pornography is so normalized.
@@xiphoid2011Not surprising given their horrible work culture.
@@2Lelouch5 No. Even the us has longer hours, go check the numbers. And in general this trend doesn't match up with work hours at all. Nor with housing prices, as is another popular excuse for it. It does match up pretty well with some other things though. Here's a hint - Isr is the only advanced nation with a higher than replacement rate birth rate, and that's largely because of a subcategory of their population that still has large families, and is the fastest growing social group in the country. Similar subcategories also have large families in other countries too, even in the west. This holds even when holding things like socio-economic situation constant i.e. relative to their socio-economic peers.
@@xiphoid2011I guess pornography actually plays a big part in that since multiple studies have shown that higher pornography consumption correlates with having less to no sex
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.
And that's when you find out that behind the facade of big words not all "authoritarian" or any other, for that matter, leaders are genuine in their love for "their" nation. Perhaps they even have some forces above them whom they don't want to upset, eh?
my guess is he just wants to be in the history books for wars, no different to how we look back at people like Napoleon etc he doesnt care about russia or its people only about himself and how he is remembered
That's why I find it even more surprising that there are no uprisings against him.
@@martinpiekarski1512 The only explanation i can think of is that its a crucial aspect of the general russian psyche to see imperial wars as a necessity for survival. might have been ingrained from the mongolian invasions i don't know.
ITT completely nit wit americans wondering why their failed education doesn't let them comprehend the world.
2:35 and Japan just vanishes...
At least both of them will last longer than the Koreans...
lmao didn't see that the first time
Korea in the bottom like 😵😵
@@sirengabriel64 Eh, as long as they aren't replaced they will recover as the fecund take over. The west has a much worse problem of turning into the 3rd world again.
Really sad
"It would be too simplistic to blame the collapse of the USSR on a vodka ban"
Unfortunately I am a very simple man
Make SOJU 🍶 Great Again 😎 Kim Jong Un
Simple men make simple times
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.
Tell us more!
Yeah, I sometimes feel.like in the West, we only view the USSR in those political and economic terms than as a place...where, at one point, nearly 300 million people lived, and where ancient nations were a part of.
@m : Should be able to search for at least one YT video discussing how from tsars to the current govt has had control over vodka (which should be an easily created alcohol) to control the people.
As a society, we tend to undervalue history.
That sounds like it would have been a fascinating paper. Do have a summarised version you can share?
Yeah, yeah, they can say "there's not enough workers" all day long, but as a russian, I'll say it's just lies. There's enough people, there's enough workers. It's just lack of "qualified underpaid workers". If you check every interview with local employers, they all say "We don't understand why people don't want to work for 300$ a month, it's a respectable competitive salary". Anyone offering 1000$ or more has absolutely no lack of employees and is doing great.
Russia is deeply poisoned with dutch disease, it's just not economically viable to do here anything else but to sell resources, and working places in a lot of cases are just a subsidiary for keeping people calm and occupied.
So basically what we all have. All this "we don't have enough babies" just sounds like "we don't have enough desperate destitute youths from broken homes we can extract labor from"
Официальная безработица 2.5%. Такой низкий показатель это явный индикатор недостатка рабочей силы
Both of those things can be true.
I agree that "Dutch Disease" is an appropriate diagnosis. The oil-exporting sector of the economy drives up the exchange rate and makes other exports uncompetitive in terms of input cost. A similar situation exists in the United States with respect to truck drivers. We always talk about the "truck driver shortage", and this has been a thing for many years. If the hourly pay rate were higher they would have no problem finding the labor; they simply don't have enough people willing to drive a truck for free.
you know Russia imports millions of workers right?
Don’t forget the tremendous loss of wealth from oligarchs who have drained the country of shared wealth or reinvestment in the economy.
And the sanctions
And the foreign investments
And the forex reserves
And the freezing of Russian assets
And nobody wanting to trade with them directly anymore (did I mention sanctions?)
No one wants to buy Russian arms anymore and arms export was one of their major exports and feeding their military industry.
In the 90s during the the rule of western supported yeltsin, yea absolutely.
I cant also forget how westerners sought to help and turn into victims some of these oligarchs putin crushed, like Khodorkovsky and Berezovsky.
London became a den for their dirty money.
Then came western oligarchs like Bill Browder to loot the russian economy and when he got caught he lobbies the us into creating the magnitsky law as well as sanction russia.
Don't forget about Egyptian pyramids either.
B-but they're supposed to be the based Putin haters and not opportunistic parasites only mad that he shut the tap off for them
@nefigushki what? Explain.
12:49 Putin is not a teetotaler, though. He certainly drinks, just not much and so by insane Russian standards he might as well be a teetotaler.
Bullshit, he gobbles as much vodka as your typical addict, just tries hard to hide it because that would destroy his public image.
Russian standards are kinda extreme both ways. They actually have a larger percentage of teetotalers than most western nations. But they also have a very high proportion of heavy drinkers. The result is that a much larger portion of those Russians who do drink, also don't survive it. Their alcohol-related mortality rate is very high, matched only by a few other slavic nations, but that's not cos all Russians drink, many don't at all.
He is. KGB agents don't drink
@@rasimbot Even if it's true, is he still a KGB agent? Nah, it was a long time ago and he wasn't even good as a spy. Now he is an autocratic opressor who rigs elections and wages wars. So he doesn't have to worry about stoping oneelf from drinking.
Insane russian standarts.
Buddy several european nations outpace russia in alcohol consumption and many more are very close.
Majority of the youth drinks way less. Alcoholism in russia has been dropping a lot since the year 2000.
Beware the misplaced comma on 3,800 miles at 0:21
Good eye! :D
everyone taking the swedish vodka thumbnail bait leaving comments saying it's swedish to increase engagement.
As you do so as well
@@ericsilver9401As you do so as well
@@ericsilver9401you as well
I took the bait…
@@cadenbigler do so you well as
The Slavs of Russia were never freed from serfdom. They still live at the whims of a Tsar and it's sad
Instead of direct payments to the person who keeps you on their territory, you now pay to the middlemen in a form of mortages, with builders and banks having your money. I just want to have my own fucking house, without hving 2 jobs and/or a spouse working too to just afford basic necessities
But that's the way they like it.
How many times have I seen this kind of comment from some pretend to be deep pseudo-historian.
@@littlehorn0063 There are always empty acres of forest going for a few thousand bucks where I live. If you don't want to deal with the builders and bankers and want a house that's really, truly all your own, there's that option.
@@Silver_Prussian I have no idea. I've never seen it before
Absolut Vodka is a Swedish company owned by a French one.
Did anyone say it wasn't? Absolut just makes for better wordplay than Stoli lol
@@baronvonslambert the thumbnail implies it's russian
@@lyaz8426It doesn't. It implies that the video of the title has something to do with vodka.
Russian Standard could help with wordplay 😏
it does not. it is for a pun. there is no russian flag or marking. the video is not about alc. you took it that way.@@lyaz8426
Comparing Russia to Italy will always be funny to me, since in Italy there's a weirdly strong russophilic current, which moved from the socialist and communist parties of the USSR years to more broadly across the country and now especially on the right wing. How times change.
We like to chose the losing side, always haha
@@funghi2606 You did it correctly at least once
Not true at all in WW1 it was on the winning one.
@@Perrirodan1 I would argue no one should be considered the winner or the loser of WWI if not in a purely technical sense. WWI had no good reason to exist, no one had any moral reasons to claim, WWI ended the belle epoque, ruined Europe, and finally created the conditions for WWII which resulted in the genocide of tens of millions of innocent people.
@@funghi2606you're blind if you think Russia is losing
Why is the population chart at 2:30 so misleading? Labeling the RSFSR as having 1,070~ million people just to make the number decrease more dramatic? They only had 147 million in 1989 and only 146 to 143 million now (depends on the inclusion of Crimea), never a billion. I was always questioning your integrity before but this makes me even more skeptical if you'll skew graphs this obviously.
You forgot this is one of those propaganda channels that talk about China. Not to say I don't like China but it's just the same slop fed
Thanks for pointing this out. He keeps Russia's order in the list in a reasonable spot, but, yeah... There's just wrong numbers attached to it for dramatic effect. That's really bad.
1:46 Saint Petersburg is former Leningrad, to avoid confusion please note that it is Leningrad Oblast and not city
According to other commenters, it’s possible this may be a reference to the Leningrad Oblast (since supposedly the oblast kept the old name while only the city supposedly reverted). If so, the chart doesn’t really make that clear.
Leningrad which again is former Saint Petersburg
Leningrad is an Oblast near Karelia, it doesn't refers to St Peterburg
I was wondering about that.
There are only Oblasts on the list, why would anyone think "Leningrad, yeah they must mean the city formerly known as Leningrad because that is the thing that fits on this list"
In Ukraine, it was 1.16 _before_ the war. It currently stands at .7.
It wasnt good before, but people dont focus on Ukraine’s birth decline because of the artificial cause due to war. Japan, South Korea, and China are more notable because they too have around 1 baby per woman in Japan, and around.8 in China and SK, due to cultural and economic factors, which arent easily explained “because invasion”
Now South Korea's is 0.68, even worse
@@harsha8964
Yikes.
And the fertility rate is much lower in Seoul than in the rest of the country.
@@harsha8964 That's... literally horrifying -- since it implies a lot of suffering for the people to come. :O
Yeah, birthrates tend to drop during the war and explode right after it, as soldiers return home and have lots of sex. When Ukraine wins this war this will likely be even more pronounced, as EU will pump money into Ukraine, creating a lot of opportunities with less people around to compete for them, which will lead to an increase in salaries.
Low life expectancy is a bonus, not a downside... if a worker dies around the time he's supposed to go on pension, it's free money for the state. I doubt the family gets anything from the "saved" money (it's not really saved, pension system is a pyramid scheme)
Logically, then the Russian state should figure out something to with its babushka problem. Russian women retire before the end of their useful worklife and live ten years longer than men.
Bismarck really fucked us with this one, didn't he?
It's not a bonus when it means your workforce is unhealthier, less productive, and wastes its money on things that make the issue even worse. This in turn leads to more young people fleeing the country, and the cycle worsens.
Elderly people are also a VITAL pillar of Putin's popular support.
Capitalism is the pyramid scheme.
spider man is gonna be so mad when he finds out you scribbled all those graphs on his suit
My head hurts from laughing at that. Nice.
Loved your breakdown, thank you so much PolyMatter as always!
Drafting young men to fight against ukraine is also a big part of it those who have the means usually flee the country with their families.
Only a tiny part of population actually can flee, no matter whether they want. The air bans don't help either.
Russians are not fleeing their country. Where should they run to? To Central Asia? To Africa? It is very difficult for Russians to get into the EU, the USA and other developed countries, and it is even more difficult for them to stay there.
If or when he starts recruiting from the cities they'll really start to leave in large numbers.
... and came back little later, as they faced all rusophobia and sanctions in the west.
@@user-qp8js5ps5c russo "phobia" isn't real, the only thing real is those russians can't behave with basic human decency.
A lot of people mistake population decline as a good thing since they've been fed the "overpopulation" hype for decades now. It's not just about having fewer people, but fewer YOUNG people and an ever increasing elderly population that need to be taken care of. A society that is rapidly ageing out of existence has no future at all.
There’s no “overpopulation” hype. It’s simply what factors you choose to prioritize. Less people means less resource extraction means healthier earth. More people means more economic activity means stronger nations and more material prosperity/technological advancement.
For real, anti natalism as a philosophy is awful, it leads to more problems further down the line
@@joela.4058 i don't know on what planet you live but here in earth, overpopulation was engraved in everyone's minds for decades.
😢p.
Exactly. The machine that is the world economy is structured based on infinite growth, and when that’s no longer true for the workforce, there will need to be rapid innovation or there will certainly be disaster
The Transsiberian Railroad was a bucket list item until I learned that being accosted by a drunk was a daily ordeal.
I could handle the drunks (yuk) but now it's going to be off my bucket list. Won't be a good place to be an American traveler :(
Drunk grandpas are the best, imagine all the stories you would hear about good old soviet times
@@surelyyoujokemeinfailure7531 it's fine to be an American and it's highly unlikely you'll be accosted lol....thats just propaganda nonsense.
Funny profile pic
Its still a fun trip..dont believe the west propaganda that its dangerous.
(7:32) Slight modification; "The French sip wine, the British beer, and the Russians 'CHUG' vodka".
Must be a wonderful country to grow up in.
And to be born practically a mutant with numerous congenital health issues due to your parents alcolism. Not only men drink in industrial quantities in Russia, you know.
I've lived in britain. they certainly don't simply sip beer lol. they drown in it on the weekends then stumble about the streets looking for a way home.
Not quite. It's much more complicated than that. They actually have a larger percentage of teetotalers than most western nations. But they also have a very high proportion of heavy drinkers. The result is that a much larger portion of those Russians who do drink, also don't survive it. Their alcohol-related mortality rate is very high, matched only by a few other slavic nations, but that's not cos all Russians drink a lot.
The drinking culture of Russia and the West is different in the West, they drink every day, but little, in Russia they get drunk for one or two days, but they lose consciousness, and vodka consumption in Russia is low, beer replaces it
Bro American male deaths are at 75 Russia 68 we not that far off 😂 we so cooked without public health care
US mortality is 75, which is largely due to people eat too much and too much drugs coming from Mexico. If US was cut off from Mexico like Europe, life expectancy will be around 78.
and 3rd (?) worst place in efficiency ... a.k.a corruption
America dropped. The life expectancy used to be higher.
American life expectancy is dropping mainly due to people overdosing on drugs. Obesity doesn't help too.
Russian male life expectancy increase to 70.8 year in 2023.
But western countries like the US, UK and Canada only grow because of immigrations, but what happens when the second and third Gen immigrants have the same declining fertility as the natives as they assimilated and there will no longer be as many immigrants coming in because the foreign countries also developed? Then they will have a even bigger issue of a larger elderly population to support.
European countries, mainly around Scandinavia, are working on improving benefits for parenthood, such as both parents getting good amounts of maternity leave and a bunch of childcare costs covered. The big problem with The West in this context is work culture and kids being percieved as just an extra cost on top of rising cost of living.
Then they get MORE immigrants, this is the advantage western countries have over poor aging societies like Thailand and rich xenophobic societies like Japan, this is what Russia tried to do with Central Asian migrants, before it's economy started going the other way, and they started conscripting central Asians for the war, now they have a better chance at home than in Russia, this will have to end one day, but it gives them breathing room
Even without immigration, the US has a birth rate of 1.78, just below replacement, and it was above replacement just ten years ago. Even if there was no immigration the US would be much better off than places like Japan or Russia.
They import more immigrants. That's how the US became the land of immigrants. 😊
No worries, the migrants aren’t assimilating at all! We will be entirely replaced in no time for no reason whatsoever
1:49 Leningrad (its an old name) is Saint-Petersburg. So 0.87 either refers to stats from USSR or to Leningrad Oblast, which is a huge region surrounding Saint-Petersburg
That list only includes Oblasts and Oblasts is what he is talking about, why would it be the city formerly known as Leningrad and not Leningrad oblast?
Leningrad obviously refers to the Oblast and not St Petersburg or else it would have said St Petersburg.
2:18 "after its collapse" it lost the territories with highest birth rates
almost like all the good parts wanted to f off
@@thebaker8637the referendum of 1990 disagrees with you
Ukraine lost 1/3 of it's people simply due to refugees, either they leave to the west or to Russia, further millions live in Russia occupied area, and hundreds of thousands are dead in the frontline and keep growing, Ukraine already have demographic crisis before the war, after this, they have a demographic catastrophe, funnily enough, nobody speak about that
@@thebaker8637 As a matter of fact, the implosion was wanted by Russians. It's Russia that declared its independance and left the USSR first.
Russia's birth rate was still fine without the Soviet territories before the collapse
It's fucking disgusting that just about every country in the world is failing its people so fundamentally. I'm so sick of austerity, existential dread, and never getting to just enjoy life.
I just want to write silly rule books for tabletop and card games, not slave away for a place to live in, something that EVERYONE should have, in an uncaring shithole. I feel you. It's bleak and grey
Don't mind us, but Russia's *particularly* good at this game, and has been for the last centuries.
Great video! One note though: the graphs arent legible sometimes with yellow labels obscuring titles and x-axis labels being too dense
I was confused too
Pretty much all Russian history can be summed up in the phrase: “and then it got worse.”
It was getting better from 2000-2020 I guess...
@@Leon.StanicBest twenty years in history of Russia was 1959 to 1979.
@@argy007 weren't they still sending people to prison in the far east for not meeting work quotas back then?
@@Leon.Stanic It *appeared* to be getting better...all while the actual policies being implemented drove government and military corruption straight up into the stratosphere.
You got it in opposite way
The low birth rates in Western countries have a lot more to do with the increasingly high cost of living then with women choosing to work rather than having children! I felt like that was a really big mistake in your video
If your statement is true, why is it that low income women have more children than high income women? This is true within the US and across the world.
@@fantabuloussnuffaluffagus Government gives money to poor families with many children. ever considered that?
@@fantabuloussnuffaluffaguscause they don't know and don't have access to other choices
@@fantabuloussnuffaluffagus compare how much costs to raise a successful child in a city vs in a village. Also, city is cramped with people and flats are smaller than houses, it also affects fertility negatively.
He was talking about the 70s, not current problems
"Once thriving technology industry"
You know that industry which was so important it didn't get a single mention before that
Locally thriving not internationally.
Beacause it's not consumer goods with bit marketing. It's nuclerar energy, steel and fertilizers.
Didn't get mentioned many times because it's not a video about industry? Also, thriving means it's growing not merely surviving. There's nothing wrong with what was said in that part of the video
Not an error. When it comes to Tech, the russia had the advantage of the "low base" - there was so much room to grow, everyone half-competent could find their place.
Since 2022, not anymore.
@@malachi8154 a lot of countries had a low base. How many countries have their own search engine that rivals Google in popularity? Their own taxi service that rivals Uber? The sad part is that the peak of a career of a Russian IT guy is leaving the country to work somewhere else. Sincerely, a Russian IT guy.
*The Soviet Union clearly didn’t learn a thing from how Prohibition contributed to the Great Depression. History doesn’t always repeat but it does rhyme.*
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Thought the great depression had to do mainly with an asset bubble in the roaring 20s, and to do with subsequent central bank policies that exacerbated the situation. Not alcohol ban.
@@davidmin3583 It does, Prohibition mostly helped build the America Mafia, other organized crime, and the now "glamorus" speakeasies (think Great Gatbsy) and their Jazz music. The real trigger was a mix of speculative investments in the stock market (Lots of common folks investing for the first time), while businesses & farms run out of profits leading to a stock collaspe that triggered bad trade and regulation choices to "protect" American industry, toppling trade and Europes ability to repay foregin loans to the US.
Really oversimplified, but Prohibition was at most a side show to the real issues in the US economy at the time.
Not true, but lying about how prohibition didn't work and made everything worse is popular pseudo science for hacks who are incapable of looking at confounding variables
@@nomobobbyDidn't evironmental events like droughts and locusts kill farms?
What happened to businesses?
Wasn't there a period after the Spanish flu, where people had money and spent it?
WHO: Drinking vodka is dangerous and will kill you.
Russia: Hold my beer.
In Italy now it is shrinking because homes are too expensive. It is crazy to see working people living in shared rooms.
We do not now that for sure. In Finland housing is a lot cheaper and the birthrate is well below 2 children per woman. Moreover if women in Niger can afford to on average 7 children. I am pretty sure women in Italy can afford to have 2.
@@algernonsidney8746 Birthrate has nothing to do with money ,Africa has least money ,they had 250 milion people in 1950 now they have 1.4 billion .Problem is that its never been harder to find a wife ,like ever.
2:30 I assume it's for dramatic effect, but that the animation begins with showing that Russia had 1,142 million (aka 1,1 billion) people in 1995 is not helpful in an educational video.
Thank you for shedding light on this and connecting all the dots in such an understandable way. That was fascinating.
We need a series about Russia, similar to the one you did about China!
Don't forget one on the US!
It'll probably be something between "99.99% of Russians support [govt/Putin/war/etc.]!" and "90s were the best times in Russian history!". There are actually good government-independent (mainly from now-abroad Russian opposition) modern history videos, but good luck finding something in English.
If the alcohol issue was addressed in the 1950s. It would probably had succeeded. It was a time of rebuilding and improvement. Leveraging nationalism, alcohol consumption could have been curbed for the good of the Soviet Union. At least promote vodka as something special, only drank when the state celebrates, to drink it constantly dilute the cultural significant it has to the people.
No it wouldn't 😂 spoke to my parents and they said, living in soviet union was never ending nightmare
Putin pushed alcohol, started up a quasi state/private bottling company with ultra low prices. Even now, whenever something goes wrong politically, putin lowers the price on booze in the bars in big cities for the weekend or does a twofer to keep “the people” good and DRUNK so they don’t get Bolshie. Alcohol being the good central nervous system DEPRESSANT that it is!
Russians are always too depressed to revolt from their totalitarian state. Drink!
Both Lenin and Gorbachev were aware of alcohol and its hold on russia. Not in a good way.
@@123shotas Polls in former soviet nations consistently show a majority who lived during the USSR think life was better back then.
During the late 1980's, world oil prices had collapsed. The Soviet Union relied on oil sales to help stay afloat but those revenues collapsed. Oil prices dropped to as low as $8 per barrel in the early 90's. That's devastating for a country that relied on oil to fund half it's government.
The Chernobyl clean up also cost billions of rubles, the war in Afghanistan alone nearly bankrupted them and it looks like the final nail may have been cracking down on vodka sales, losing those taxes.
I don't recall the vodka crackdown.
Interesting.
In 2014 Russia invaded Ukraine the first time while Obama was US president and Russia was "in an economic downturn in need of extra revenue". Oil prices were still high, appx $80-$90 per barrel so Russia was making bank on that.
Also interesting that they still needed "extra revenue". Maybe to fund the invasion?
2016 saw the collapse of oil prices again, down to around $28 I think. There was a glut of oil on the market thanks to American frackers under president TRUMP and gas prices were the lowest they'd been since 9/11.
Oil prices stayed low for over a year before the glut was absorbed and prices started rising again in 2018.
In March 2020, there was an OPEC+ meeting. Russia was the + in OPEC+.
Putin's oil minister announced that Russia would no longer abide by the production limits OPEC demanded. Those limits weren't stopping or even slowing American frackers and Russia needed the price of oil to drop enough to get the frackers out.
This announcement rattled everyone causing Saudi Arabian prince MBS himself to personally call Putin that weekend and ask him not to do this.
Putin claimed ignorance, that he had nothing to do with it, that it was up to the oil minister.
MBS flew into a rage because everyone knows Putin runs everything over there and claiming he didn't was an insult.
So MBS cursed him and told him SA wasn't going to absorb yet another crash in oil prices, so if Russia was going to ignore production limits, SA would open everything up and flood the market.
Everyone at the meeting heard this and by Monday morning, the stock market completely collapsed. The price of oil fell below zero for the first time in history and kept falling into negative territory.
The emergency brake that shuts off the American stock market went off 15 minutes after opening that morning. It hadn't happened since October 1987.
PUTIN caused the stock market collapse in America by just having a telephone conversation with Muhammad bin Salman.
Combined with the growing, irrational fears of covid beginning to spread around the world, it was a perfect storm to destroy trillions in personal wealth around the world.
Thanks Putin.
Dikhéad 🙄
Putin is OBVIOUSLY the problem with Russia.
Thank you for adding context to why oil dropped to -$19 a barrel a few years ago that whole situation was so weird! What do you think about the Nordstream being blown up and do you have a reference for MBS to cursing Putin about prices I would love to read/hear that lol I wish we could've tapped the phone lines
I might call you a moron for calling the fears of COVID "irrational" but you are correct in your market analysis.
Everyone's smart in something, and you got that down stat.
"Putin caused the stock market collapse in America" - sounds like a good person to me
Now let's consider the reason behind the collapse of the oil price - not market forces but geopolitics: a result of an agreement by the USA and Saudi Arabia to deliberately suppress the price of oil to damage the economy of the Soviet Union. It was one of the myriad reasons for the ultimate demise of the Soviet Union, humanities last great hope against neoliberal fascist corporatism and a return to feudalism. I suppose now we'll have to rely on China, but I'm not holding my breath.
@@view1st if you're talking about the late 80's low oil prices I mentioned, OPEC continued demanding further production cuts from all OPEC countries to try and raise the price of oil. Saudi Arabia was the largest oil supplier by far and they had to cut more than other countries because they weren't cutting their production to required levels.
Saddam Hussein accused Kuwait of over production and selling their oil to the US.
Iraq eventually invaded Kuwait in 1990 and blew up all their oil wells as retribution.
The US wasn't working with SA to suppress the price of oil to affect the Soviet Union. If that was happening, SA would've increased their own production, not drastically cut it.
That thumbnail is absolut gold 😂
Absolut Vodka is swedish...
@@MrJakson112no one cares
@@MrJakson112the brand perhaps had Swedish heritage. But the owner is a multi national beverage company.
@@MrJakson112 it stopped being proper Swedish when the state sold it. It's still made in Åhus I believe but it is indeed owned by a big multinational
lol
they could do smarter subtle things like change the design of vodka to be reusable bottles or smaller cans, like beer for smaller consumption
1:47 wtf is that graph, St. Petersburg and Leningrad is the same thing (Leningrad is the old soviet name for the city)
St.Petersburg is the City and Leningrad probably means "Leningrad's oblast" which means the region the first one is in (probably excluding Petersburg itself, but not sure)
@@maximrukinov3101 That does make sense ig, it was just really weird to see a mistake like that because i used to live in st. petersburg
Leningrad is Leningrad Oblast, not just Leningrad. Leningrad is an old name of Saint Petersburg
St Petersburg is an even older name for leningrad😅
@@patrickjeffers7864 heh, you're not wrong!
That only shows that they don't have much else other than vodka. When they ban vodka, they have nothing.
Russia needs to go
They need to legalize and start cultivating cannabis. Russia would become a peaceful country with a high birthrate within five years. But food prices may spike due to demand.
@@blazer9547 It should. There is just no place for totalitarian autocracies in 21st century.
@@rumrunner8019 Maybe, never know before you try. Although I'm not so sure the countries with legal marihuana have such high birth rates. Smoking weed does not exactly make you horny.
They have potatoes! Okay, so they don‘t because they turned them all into vodka. :D
2:06 "In the 1980s, the Soviet Union had one of the highest birth rates in Europe. Its population peaked at nearly 149 million."
Err, what?? The Soviet Union's population peaked closer to 300 million than the number you gave.
Surprised Gorby just straight up stopped alcohol instead of nudging people to something with a lower abv
Fun fact most of the regions with seperatist movments have higher birtrates than ethnic russians. Surly nothing bad will come from this.
Next, Russia is running out of oxygen 💀💀
Later, China suffocated.
Weather it was the pollution or the population, we'll never know. As for tomorrows programming:
CANADA IS ON FIRE!!!!!1
AGAIN!
These population projections are to be taken with a huge spoonful of salt.
People basically draw a straight line and are like "yup that's how it'll go" then when thing don't go in a straight line or even reverses, they get surprised
In many countries beer is not taxed as alcoholic beverage.
I wish my husband would let me have a say in how many children we're having.
14:00 Tbh I didn't realise the USA and Russia health care is that inefficient. Rather unexpected this is
Interesting as always
I'm an American woman, and I've noticed something: A lot of young people from there are moving to my area in the US (southeast Florida). Why the tri-county area of south Florida versus, say, California, a state they once owned? A lot of young people are seeing economic opportunity in south Florida and people are bringing their families with them. Even though the current economy all over the US isn't the best, south Florida has more opportunities. Now another country where a lot of young people from Russia are moving is Ireland. (I've visited Ireland before.) Ireland has a great economy, and moving to Ireland isn't much of an adjustment. In Ireland, I met a young lady from Russia that moved to Ireland because she got into college in Galway. She said it wasn't much of an adjustment and she enjoyed living in Ireland, but she just wasn't a big fan of having to go to classes on Fridays. A lot of young people moving to the US and Ireland might have something to do with it.
ABSOLUT IS SWEDISH
ABSOLUT IS SWEDISH
ABSOLUT IS SWEDISH
Yeah, I have a friend in Siberia and her report of what her stay in the hospital was like was terrifying...
Fascinating. Thank you
People in the comments pointing out that the thumbnail is of a vodka distilled in Sweden really are out here dodging the pun like Neo dodging bullets 💀
its so annoying american youtubers saying half of michigan stadium just tell the fuking number
imagine you'd have to talk like the narrator for your whole life...
Nobody tell them: all industrial countries have a demographic crisis
Frag that's horrifying... I was under impression that vodka-based economy was being dropped during late Tsardom... but now that i think about it try as I might I can't remember for what reason (if any) I was under said impression.
For some reason I can't edit posts on phone but being shocked by it's economy I forgot to mention that from what I heard Russian vodka is in general of such horrible quality that it in itself might be almost as dangerous as alcohol it contain... take it with grain of salt as same articles were simultaneously praising quality of polish vodka so it might have been paid add.
Whoever designed that thumbnail deserves a raise 😂👏
Who ever designed the thumbnail needs google, Absolut is swedish?
@@MrJakson112So what? Vodka is vodka
Thank you very much for video. As Ukrainian myself, it is pleasant to hear that russians have problems but, being completely honest, Ukraine has serious demographic issues too. Your presentation of statistics is just amazing and it would be cool if you made similar videos about Ukrainian problems (cause we definitely have some and it would be interesting to learn more about them).
Also, Medvedev launching anti-alcohol campaign this is the funniest thing I have ever heard
The brand "Absolut Vodka" is Swedish tough....sounds like a pety thing to point out but the export was so huge that it kinda saved the Swedish economy at one point.
Fascinating video, thanks! 💜
you must jest? choice for not having kids in Europe is definitely same as in Russia - income and instability. When I lived in UK I didn't know a single family who would own and not rent place they where living in (actually I know some, just remembered). Having children in situation where losing job means all your family ends up on street is madness. No rational person would go for this.
What makes the difference isn't the birth rate being low but the death rate being high.
While this is true, Russia has a very high rate of home ownership (courtesy of housing being a right in the Soviet Constitution). It's mostly economic and cultural conditions that hinder them
The death rate is for older people.
In some ways it helps Russia because it means people did just when they would retire, reducing the strain on healthcare and retirement funds.
@@LancesArmorStriking oh yeah, I'm not saying Russia is in a good spot, or we are in the same spot, I just didn't like that he said that we don't choose to have children because we are so cool.. 5:00
@@sebastjansslavitis3898
Well, it's a broadly pro-Western channel, so it doesn't surprise me that he's given it a "Kremlin bad" slant.
You could say that it is, but (as the video points out), even countries with a higher average quality of life are facing an identical problem.
So (sadly) it's not as simple of a problem as "just make the government more like the US".
I suspect it's just cultural, and an effect of the internet. Women (like... normal people) when given the seemingly consequence-free choice between raising a child and enjoying themselves, are going to pick the latter.
The issue is that higher levels of development for women correlate strongly with decreasing birthrate (specifically women, no such correlation for men). So I'm not sure of a way to resolve the issue without redefining what life should be all about.
Add to that the Internet (which I think creates a negative feedback loop), and you have a population convinced that it can't change its own trajectory. UK is getting poorer so that certainly won't help in the short-term.
Russia's defense industrial base is running flat out and its increases in production beyond prewar levels indicates that while there is a brain drain and people are fleeing, there are also contrary trends.
All countries can run on a war time economy for some time. Look at how long Nazi Germany fought.
Yet it will catch up. Just it will take a few years.
There is no brian drain, nobody is fleeing. Interest among the youngest parts of the population about leaving was 18%. Thats is nothing. And how can we talk about a brain drain when russia has had a massive influx of ukrainian russian speakers after the invasion bagen in 2022.
Military production significantly increasing while at war? That is a big surprise indeed
Russian "defense" industry.
Most fleed people did come back though, mainly because of running out of money or not being able to find a job outside. So the vast majority of emigrants are either ones who can work remotely (mainly IT folks) or famous people.
Hi! @PolyMatter, could you please comment? At 1:46, there's a very strange statistic on screen: Saint Petersburg 1.28, and then Leningrad 0.87. But... that's the same city. Saint Petersburg was called Leningrad till 1991. Maybe you meant 'Leningrad oblast'? It's the region surrounding Saint Petersburg, same as 'Moscow oblast' surrounds the Moscow city.
Beer 45% alcohol
5:02 encouraging teenage pregnancy is crazy lmao
seriously lmfao id rather the population decline than have 16 year olds give birth wtf 😭
You do know that Absolut is Swedish not Russian? 😂
I'm a little Asian boy
Glowie didn't do much research
Putinka is a brand of Russian vodka made by the state-owned Moscow Distillery Crystal company. Thank you Mr. President!!!
(: Now THAT would have made a great thumbnail! (:
1:59 Leningrad and Saint Petersburg in the same table? I think you mean Leningrad oblast
Am i the only one who thinks all this talk about birthrates is a bit bizarre like we are living in some far away space colony? It's natural to have a bit of population shrink, the high birthrates in many poor countries also create terrible conditions.
Birth rates are dropping in poorer countries too.
Terrible conditions create the high birth rates - not the other way around. Disease and need for labor to feed the family leads to more kids. Once the conditions improve kids can go to school instead of working, so parents have less kids.
The fundamental problem is how long life expectancy is, if old people died like they used to, it would be a manageable decline, now it's a ticking time bomb
@@technetium9653 It's not. When it comes down to it, the younger and much smaller cohort will not be supporting the larger retiree cohort, they will be left to die or make peace with their families and survive in generational homes. No country is going to suicide itself by focusing all resources on supporting geriatrics past their usefulness as harsh as that sounds. It will take some time for different political systems to adapt to that reality but that is what will happen.
Population shrinkage isn't necessarily a bad thing but an ever increasing aging population definitely is.
Population shrinkage isn't necessarily a bad thing but an ever increasing aging population definitely is.
Russia is Running Out of People...and tanks, planes, ammunition, money etc.
..and everything. Since day 1. Also Putin is dead, but also desperate. And insane.🤣
Putin remains a “Master Strategist”
@@dx-ek4vr I think Putin shows too much weakness in this war (even if it is patience). I wouldn't be surprised if the next leader of Russia would be more hawkish.
Only morons in this section
@@TenylegMinekez-uc7co Patience? They just struck a pediatric hospital as retaliation for an ammo dump being struck in Voronezh.
08:13 the only thing that surprised me on graph is _estonia_
lmao are you guys okay? is living near latvia and finland really that stressful?
Love how they used Swedish vodka as the thumbnail tehehe
Well birth rates are declining around the world who wants to have kids if they are gonna be shipped overseas to fight and who wants to be even poorer because they need to spend the time and money to properly raise a kid, add a dash of fear mongering over the economy and you got it perfected
This ☝🏻
you clearly didn't watch the video
The point is some places (like Russia) have it worse, due to other factors and prominently not having the immigration advantage that the United States does
@@Ayem427 """advantage"""
@@Zquirrelthing Learn to think for yourself lol
So even in Chechnya and Dagestan the birth rate is low?
Dagestan 1.8, Chechnya 2.35
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Chechenya is high for a country like russia.
@@user-dl5ln3wd6f Indeed. But Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and other central Asian countries have high birth rates as well.
@@user-dl5ln3wd6f Chechnia is pretty much an independent region, tbf. Most Russians don't like Chechens, and most Chechens don't like Russians.
When you have about 1 million men either die in a meaningless war or emmigrant to avoid the draft, that's not gonna help your demography problem
Rest of europe like Spain have similar story even with immigration where immigrants have larger families than natives
But the rest of Europe is nowhere near this drunk; as mentioned in the video, the rest of Europe improves its standard of living even with fewer births - Russia has the worst of both.
Birth rates dropping due to higher living standards is a known phenomenon,. Russia's living standards however should come with good birth rates
Literally half of German young people have a migration background, though something tells me we're not going to get any 'Germany is running out of people' video. For some reason it's always limited to Russia and China. Which just so happen to be our geopolitical opponents. Really makes you think. What was that word again? Propaganda I think?
@@ApocDevTeam no? They say this with most all western and many Asian nations, jpan korea and Italy being the most common
@ApocDevTeam u are totally right, this video is pure western propaganda
4:17 italy's fertility rate is now in 2024 1.2-1.3, not 0.5
and in the 70s it was well above 2.0
I think Russia will try to solve their population problem by convincing or forcing if necessary people from the 'stan countries to move to Russia. i.e., Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan.
8:10 Damn, what's up w. ESTONIA?
They’re culturally very similar to the Finns, so they probably drink a lot (probably not as much as the Russians, though that’s not saying much).
Statistics in the graph with Estonia were old. In the 00s it was quite a depressing place to live, but I strongly believe it's much better now
"Not fast enough"
In the fertility rate table you have both St. Petersburg and Leningrad,which are the same place, with different numbers.
This was a fascinating video,Thanks for it👍I have seen a lot of Russian health tourists before the war
8:20 WTF, Estonia?
I know Estonians who go to Latvia every week for cheaper alcohol. 😩
0:21 the comma in the the number 3,800 is located in the wrong spot being located at 38,00 as opposed to the more generally correct place of 3,8000. Great Video, I found it very informative and interesting.