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LanternWaste

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30. It wasn't religion by any means... it was simple demographics.
Wed Sep 25, 2013, 02:38 PM
Sep 2013

Until the dislocation caused by the Red-White war, the Soviet government replaced religious with civil marriage, divorce became not merely legal for the collective population for the first time, but rather easy to obtain, and unwed mothers received received dispensation from the state. State run institutions not only allowed parents to absolve themselves of many familial responsibilities, the state actually took those responsibilities away (via the mechanisms of required state-run nurseries, preschools, schools, clubs, and youth organizations)

Only after the dislocation of the Red-White War, and the population emergency stemming from the famine, the Great Motherland War and Stalin's pogroms were family units considered required to rebuild the national social structure.

It wasn't religion by any means... the demographic crisis of the second quarter of the century demanded a return to the traditional family unit.


(see Utopia in Power by Mikhail Heller for further information)

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