Russians given day off work to make babies

Actually what I think is going on here is the reaction to years of USSR's not valuing 'the family' despite the (supposed) efforts of the former Soviet gov't to encourage its citizens to have kids. Let me explain.

Links between Feminism and Communism are in my judgment somewhat overestimated. Communism and Feminism have some goals in common which is why they formed an unholy alliance from a doctrinal and personnel standpoint. As a consequence one of the sops thrown to feminists in Russia as a means of keeping them as allies was to implement a pro-Feminism set of policies. But the feminists who were also Communist Party officials got into state positions and immediately exploited them to implement their anti-male policies to a degree that even the communists found surprising if not also overwhelming. These included the opening up of all sorts of legal and social perks for Russian women while at the same time indoctrinating them (with or without their assent) in both communist and feminist thought. However the two can exist exclusive of one another, as you can see by the extent to which Feminism has worked its way into western (in particular, American) society without America becoming a communist or even socialist country (we have adopted some socialist-looking elements here and there, but these are largely welfare-oriented and serve principally to bribe "the underclasses" into staying well-behaved enough not to cause too much trouble). It's just in the case of the former USSR, they co-existed and in fact the feminists used the communists as enforcers of their policies. The communists thought they could use the feminists. Turns out it all went the other way around.

Consequences of this program in the former USSR were that marriage and in particular heterosexual relationships in general in the USSR became deprecated (served as something of a preview for western countries for those paying attention). The result was massive drops in birthrate as well as a large-scale increase in divorces and non-marriages, while at the same time the average (i.e., not-connected-to-The-Party- apparatchiks) Russian man was utterly disempowered both economically and politically. Not surprising Russian men turned to drinking, smoking, and drug use, a legacy that hasn't abated to this day (the avg. Russian man lives to be 49 and that is largely because of bad habits such as those mentioned). As for the drop in man-woman relations, it is little surprise to anyone that large numbers of Russian women started relationships with one another (Russian women to this day are the most likely to have at least tried having sex with another woman, and it is not uncommon for Russian women to get with each other in "Boston marriages" due ostensibly to the lack of "marriageable" men in Russia), as men were disempowered, took up bad habits, and generally as a class of person spun into decline.

This massive shift in the social direction of the Russian people can be attributed directly to the machinations of the communists and the feminists working together. They effectively destroyed the manly base of Russian society, the same one that defended it against the Nazis and allowed the Russian people to survive in some of the least hospitable terrain in the world.

Now the post-USSR Russian people find themselves trying to deal with the social disaster created by the communists and feminists. The legacy of it is a birthrate so low that the country is losing headcount by the 10s of 1,000s every year due to premature deaths (Russian men, mostly), emigration (can you blame anyone for leaving such a sinking ship?) and a lack of new births. They are desperately trying to find ways to encourage people of both sexes to reproduce. To some degree it is working but really, it is a sprayer bottle against a forest fire. Such are the wages of implementing feminist doctrine via the power of a dictatorial state.

Any of this sound familiar? "Oh, it can't happen here (America, Britain, wherever)!" you say. A familiar refrain in Russia in 1905 and in Germany in 1925, and we all know what happened.

linking feminism with communism is just silly!!

The feminists (hillary Klinton) have way to much to lose if America was to embrase socialism!!

This is all about the pill and abortion.
There has been no plague, there has been no war, there has been no disease that has stopped the breeding.
There has only been the feminist ideal of reproductive control.

It is happening in every society where women have access to these technologies.
In France women are given huge incentives to have kids.

oregon dad