My Grandfather POW Story: th-cam.com/video/yjx_KvEasNM/w-d-xo.html 12 NARKOMs Story: th-cam.com/video/gRapyn9YSUw/w-d-xo.html My name is Sergei Sputnikoff. I was born in the USSR in 1971 and have lived in the USA since 1999. The Ushanka Show was created to share stories and recollections of everyday life in the USSR. My books about arriving in America are available at www.sputnikoff.com/shop (Russian or English versions) or on Amazon: www.amazon.com/dp/B0BNQR1FBC?binding=paperback&searchxofy=true&ref_=dbs_s_aps_series_rwt_tpbk&qid=1688731325&sr=8-1 Fan Mail: Ushanka Show P.O. Box 96 Berrien Springs MI 49103, USA You can support this project with SuperThanks tips, or: BTC Donations: 3Byh3srdNuLE9pWrKAJEqbYrmuNtaaLrz3 Via Patreon here: www.patreon.com/sputnikoff Viia PAYPAL: paypal.me/ushankashow Ushanka Show merchandise: teespring.com/stores/ushanka-show-shop Instagram: instagram.com/ushanka_show
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I am bilingual in english and french, the language on my phone is set to english, the language on my Roku smart tvs is set to french, the title of this video in english on my phone says 《Soviet Baby Boomers. How Big Was the Baby Boom in the USSR?》but on my Roku smart tvs the title of this video in french says 《regardez la vidéo (ne plaisantez pas)》which translates to 《watch the video (do not joke)》in english
Good topic. Thanks. Re demographics, there's an interesting paper titled '“The Fate of the Nation”: Population Politics in a Changing Soviet Union (1964-1991)' by Jessica Lovett that's available online for free. It covers the fertility disparity between the Central Asian Soviet Republics and European Soviet Republics such as Russia, Ukraine, and Estonia. Maybe make a video about that and the 'heroine mothers' of the European Soviet Republics. I hope you and your family had a happy Christmas. Best wishes to you all in 2025.
An interesting paper. Almost everyone has heard of China's "One Child Policy", but I hadn't heard of the Soviet's "Three Child Policy". The problem is that telling women it is better to have more kids and them actually doing it are two different things. The government's financial incentive to have kids of 50 rubles for the first child and 100 rubles for the second and third was not much considering the total cost of raising a child. Maybe if the government had tried giving out meaningful incentives it might have been more successful. Things such as free childcare when having a third kid or going on a priority list for a larger apartment or an increase in monthly salary. Something that would help with the ongoing expense of having more children seems like a better policy than a one-time bonus.
Baby boomer in general is a us centric term imo, Europe was in ruin immediately after the war and rest of the world didn't felt birth rate drop from the Great depression and WWII that much and generally still was in 2nd demographic stage
Interesting video. American fact: Ango-American Baby Boomer families spent time in the National Forest lands. With the decline of the Baby Boomer generation the numbers of persons visiting the National Forests has declined. One government publication outlined the importance of promoting the National Forests to the greatest rising American demographic - that of "minority" populations.
Less tourists in the National Parks and Forests will probably be a good things except for the employees working in them who might find their jobs eliminated.
@@chemicalcowpoke307 The National Forest permit I heard was an idea Disney Corp. suggested to the Government as an "entertainment fee." True as that may be or not, the "Access Permit" to generally enter the National Forest was struck down by a Federal Judge in 2014. It is used now only in "improved areas." What I meant was Anglo-American baby boomers whose vast numbers used the National Forests are declining. The Gov. publication I read was they wanted the numbers of person who care about the National Forests to go back up. They thought it would be a good idea to encourage people of color to visit more. Some commercials by the National Forest people were made. I saw a few of them.
Minorities in the USA generally do not visit forests in comparison with the Caucasian crowd. Just the way folks are. White people go camping. Just hang out at Cabela's for an hour.
Official statistics do show a small baby boom but it was shorter then in the US and it's peak fertility was lower then pre-war. In Ukraine, peak fertility was 2.8 versus 3.8 pre-war while the US had 3.7 versus 2.3 pre-war. That was the age of mass urbanisation where people went from the Kolhoz to the commie blocks while in the US it was the age of the suburbs, much easier to have all those 4 kids in comfort. Personally, no one in my family had more then 2 kids since the revolution. I'm the first in 3 generations to have a large family of 3 kids.
I feel great sympathy for the war and post-war tragedies in Russia. USA had it easy because WWI and WWII weren't on their continent. There's clearly a baby birth rate divergence between American post-war materialism and Soviet post-war domestic austerities. Therefore, to fix RF's current low birth rate, it appears greater prosperity *nationwide* might be the key.
I've seen the official birth statistics for the period after the war and it's hard to understand how it was possible to have so many kids when there were so few men left alive but the Soviet Union was making up the numbers all the time from 1936 to 1991. When you add up the numbers from the successor states after 1991, there are tens of millions of people who vanished.
No contraceptive and abortions was illegal. And you don't need one man for one woman to big birth rate. Surviving solders are being very busy after the war.😂
@neilreynolds3858 Demographers going back to Malthus have noted that war has virtually no effect on overall demographics. Populations recover quickly from wartime deaths.
the russian empire had a population of about 140 million in 1900 ... prior to the start of the Ukraine war, the russian population was estimated to be 143 million... the u.s. population in 1900 was about 75 million and today the u.s. population is estimated to be about 345 million...
Pre-WW1 census in Russian Empire showed number of ethnic Ukrainians around 50 million, the 1989 census in USSR showed the number of ethnic Ukrainians as 52 million people
The fact that birth rates in certain countries are declining tells you what you need to know about present day. War is going on. But not in a conventional way.
Somewhat off topic but when ever I hear from a pious Marxist respond to criticism with “read Marx” the impression is that of pious Christian who says “read the scriptures.” Truly there is nothing new under the sun.
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My name is Sergei Sputnikoff. I was born in the USSR in 1971 and have lived in the USA since 1999.
The Ushanka Show was created to share stories and recollections of everyday life in the USSR.
My books about arriving in America are available at www.sputnikoff.com/shop (Russian or English versions) or on Amazon:
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Fun fact: My brother's class mate once shared hotel room - and tanga briefs - with Arnold Schwarzenegger at a body builder competition.
Forget who had forgotten his at home, but a little brotherly international solidarity helped both to compete..!
болшой Спасибо Сергей ! Очень интересна !
I LOVE the way you deal with criticism.
Thanks!
There are some true Leninists, and they can't handle critisim.
Werider still is there is a push in RF, that people are worshipping Stalin.😂
That was very interesting, the graphs 📊 excellent
We have the opposite problem in the UK: the population figures are underestimated, so we don't notice how out of control immigration is...☹
I am bilingual in english and french, the language on my phone is set to english, the language on my Roku smart tvs is set to french, the title of this video in english on my phone says 《Soviet Baby Boomers. How Big Was the Baby Boom in the USSR?》but on my Roku smart tvs the title of this video in french says 《regardez la vidéo (ne plaisantez pas)》which translates to 《watch the video (do not joke)》in english
«Мне нужна твоя одежда, твои ботинки и твой мотоцикл»
Good topic. Thanks.
Re demographics, there's an interesting paper titled '“The Fate of the Nation”: Population Politics in a Changing Soviet Union (1964-1991)' by Jessica Lovett that's available online for free. It covers the fertility disparity between the Central Asian Soviet Republics and European Soviet Republics such as Russia, Ukraine, and Estonia. Maybe make a video about that and the 'heroine mothers' of the European Soviet Republics.
I hope you and your family had a happy Christmas. Best wishes to you all in 2025.
Thanks I will check it out.
An interesting paper. Almost everyone has heard of China's "One Child Policy", but I hadn't heard of the Soviet's "Three Child Policy". The problem is that telling women it is better to have more kids and them actually doing it are two different things. The government's financial incentive to have kids of 50 rubles for the first child and 100 rubles for the second and third was not much considering the total cost of raising a child. Maybe if the government had tried giving out meaningful incentives it might have been more successful. Things such as free childcare when having a third kid or going on a priority list for a larger apartment or an increase in monthly salary. Something that would help with the ongoing expense of having more children seems like a better policy than a one-time bonus.
Baby boomer in general is a us centric term imo, Europe was in ruin immediately after the war and rest of the world didn't felt birth rate drop from the Great depression and WWII that much and generally still was in 2nd demographic stage
Interesting video.
American fact: Ango-American Baby Boomer families spent time in the National Forest lands. With the decline of the Baby Boomer generation the numbers of persons visiting the National Forests has declined. One government publication outlined the importance of promoting the National Forests to the greatest rising American demographic - that of "minority" populations.
I mean you must buy a permit now to visit so, people hesitate to go.
Less tourists in the National Parks and Forests will probably be a good things except for the employees working in them who might find their jobs eliminated.
@@chemicalcowpoke307 The National Forest permit I heard was an idea Disney Corp. suggested to the Government as an "entertainment fee." True as that may be or not, the "Access Permit" to generally enter the National Forest was struck down by a Federal Judge in 2014. It is used now only in "improved areas." What I meant was
Anglo-American baby boomers whose vast numbers used the National Forests are declining. The Gov. publication I read was they wanted the numbers of person who care about the National Forests to go back up. They thought it would be a good idea to encourage people of color to visit more. Some commercials by the National Forest people were made. I saw a few of them.
Minorities in the USA generally do not visit forests in comparison with the Caucasian crowd.
Just the way folks are. White people go camping. Just hang out at Cabela's for an hour.
Official statistics do show a small baby boom but it was shorter then in the US and it's peak fertility was lower then pre-war. In Ukraine, peak fertility was 2.8 versus 3.8 pre-war while the US had 3.7 versus 2.3 pre-war. That was the age of mass urbanisation where people went from the Kolhoz to the commie blocks while in the US it was the age of the suburbs, much easier to have all those 4 kids in comfort. Personally, no one in my family had more then 2 kids since the revolution. I'm the first in 3 generations to have a large family of 3 kids.
I feel great sympathy for the war and post-war tragedies in Russia. USA had it easy because WWI and WWII weren't on their continent.
There's clearly a baby birth rate divergence between American post-war materialism and Soviet post-war domestic austerities.
Therefore, to fix RF's current low birth rate, it appears greater prosperity *nationwide* might be the key.
I've seen the official birth statistics for the period after the war and it's hard to understand how it was possible to have so many kids when there were so few men left alive but the Soviet Union was making up the numbers all the time from 1936 to 1991. When you add up the numbers from the successor states after 1991, there are tens of millions of people who vanished.
I read that the government actually encouraged women to have babies without being married. I don't know what success they had.
No contraceptive and abortions was illegal. And you don't need one man for one woman to big birth rate. Surviving solders are being very busy after the war.😂
@neilreynolds3858 Demographers going back to Malthus have noted that war has virtually no effect on overall demographics. Populations recover quickly from wartime deaths.
And then there’s Comrade Stalin.
From 1945 to 1964, the US produced about 70M new people.
Jesus
For comparison 1957 was the peak of the baby boom in the U. S.
Boomers were born between January 1946 and December 1964, both years inclusive.
the russian empire had a population of about 140 million in 1900 ... prior to the start of the Ukraine war, the russian population was estimated to be 143 million... the u.s. population in 1900 was about 75 million and today the u.s. population is estimated to be about 345 million...
16000 - illegal immigrants daily....One American kid today has two parents and 4 grand-parents....
@@valerijoukov239 ha !... yep, we are all 'murican mutts and proud of it
Pre-WW1 census in Russian Empire showed number of ethnic Ukrainians around 50 million, the 1989 census in USSR showed the number of ethnic Ukrainians as 52 million people
I think that it would've been hard for couples to have romantic feelings towards each other during the Stalinist Era for obvious reasons.
The fact that birth rates in certain countries are declining tells you what you need to know about present day.
War is going on. But not in a conventional way.
Привет, товарищ!
Horray
Interesting video. Thank you for sharing.
Slava Ukraini!!!
Somewhat off topic but when ever I hear from a pious Marxist respond to criticism with “read Marx” the impression is that of pious Christian who says “read the scriptures.” Truly there is nothing new under the sun.
Do you mean the Russian baby boom....or The "Other" Russian Baby boom ...ya' know like in Germany ?