Why Russia is Shrinking Fast

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Video is about 3 years old but is bit informative to current events.

[progree]

1. Only 20% of Russian males born in 1923 survived to the war's end

My father was born in 1923, but fortunately not in Russia.

Interesting also that South Korea has a bigger GDP than Russia, despite having about 1/3 the population

Populations and GDP In 2020:
Russia: 144 million, 1.48 T$
S.Korea: 52 million, 1.63 T$

[L. Coyote]

4. Russia's economy is smaller than Texas' and GDP is half of California's.

Putin probably has more than one inferiority complex to compensate for:

[progree]

5. Thanks! I can spend all day(s) looking at these maps/graphics

I finally found Russia on the bottom graphic -- at the 4 o'clock position.

[L. Coyote]

6. Impressively insignificant, isn't it. Just a small part of Europe dwarfed by Western democracies.

Russia is a lot of barking for a small dog. Given their natural resources, imagine the possibilities without kleptocracy and the world's second largest military, draining and exhausting most everything they produce.

[Grokenstein]

2. Wow. No wonder Putin wanted the pandemic to run wild in the West.

Too "bad" his disinfo campaign backfired on Russia.

[burrowowl]

3. Putin is going the wrong way to up the population.