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And why don't you think that the low birth rates of the 90s-2000 is a valid explanation?

I don't think it's that - or rather said, I don't think that's the primary or even the biggest reason.
If that were actually the case, you would expect to see a gender disparity in the 20-25 age range because women aren't conscripted into the army.
There's little to no gender disparity there in that graph.

What I think the cause is for that enormous dip is precisely the period when those babies were conceived.
20-30 year olds were conceived in the 1990s-2000s, a period of time which was quite difficult for Ukraine, subsidies given to mothers were low, often not even paid in full, applying for benefits was so complicated it barely was worth the effort of doing so.
In just a couple of years after the collapse of USSR, life expectancy dropped dramatically in Ukraine, so that should give you an idea of how that period of time was for the people.
Reality is that when the economy is doing shit, people won't have babies.

Check this fertility drop post '89: https://i.imgur.com/dvADJ9i.png

Of course. 🙄

If you ask a liberal what "tankie" means you will get a response that sounds a lot like if you ask a conservative what "woke" means. The two main developers are communists, trying to collectivize social media. It is very shocking. 🙄

Opening with challenging the definition of "tankie" without knowing or asking on what definition I operate on is quite the red flag. Also the condescension instantly put me in defensive mode.

Dessalines has a collection of essays he's written on Github.

Thank you for the links, now after seeing that individual's defense and apologia of the genocidal soviet empire I'm more than convinced that is not the place for me.
Just from a cursory glance alone his attitude is vehemently imperialistic, not too different from what I've experienced from many privileged westerners.
Whether his heart is or is not in the right place, that's another matter. But after a year and a half of excruciatingly depressing takes from western leftists of all kinds, I'm not going to surround myself with people that I disagree most, I value my mental health more than that.

Thanks again!

Ms. Lake added: “That’s not a threat, that’s a public service announcement.”

Yeah, I think this is the equivalent to adding "in minecraft" after you make a threat

I've seen repeated accusations that lemmy is tankie/red-fash, especially when it comes to those that control it - mods/admins/w/e. How true is this?