It's ironic that two countries (Russia and Ukraine) with rapidly shrinking populations should then start killing each other, especially if they are cousins
Yeah. In Russia at least, the rise in deaths from alcoholism and drug use and the fall in fertility rates both happened around the fall of the Soviet Union, and alcoholism peaked/fertility rates bottomed out in the 1990s, before Putin..
It's ironic that two countries (Russia and Ukraine) with rapidly shrinking populations should then start killing each other, especially if they are cousins
Yeah. In Russia at least, the rise in deaths from alcoholism and drug use and the fall in fertility rates both happened around the fall of the Soviet Union, and alcoholism peaked/fertility rates bottomed out in the 1990s, before Putin..