WW2 killed 27 million Russians. Every 25 years you see an echo of this loss of population in the form of a lower birth rate.

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BirdmanEagleson on February 16th, 2020 at 18:47 UTC »

Imagine being male in the 1950s with 2x as many women then men

Zippermann on February 16th, 2020 at 17:19 UTC »

So what's the reason for the pretty consistent surplus in men since 1980?

daveashaw on February 16th, 2020 at 17:05 UTC »

27 million Soviet citizens, a good size chunk of whom were Russians, I'm sure. Prior to 1990, there was a tendency to use "Russia" and "Soviet Union" interchangeably.