Soviet Baby Boomers. How Big Was the Baby Boom in the USSR?

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Interesting video. Thank you for sharing.

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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.

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 mean, it makes sense a lot of babies would be born cause soviet soldiers got super horny and this was a day when all of you were your imagination or a photo if you were lucky, and your hand. Also, the rape of berlin. I don't wanna be like they bad, but it makes sense why there would be a baby boom.

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..!

I read somewhere recently that if the revolution, Stalin and WWII hadn’t happened Russia would have a population of 500 million today.

Any post-war propaganda posters which promoted making babies?

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.

That was very interesting, the graphs 📊 excellent

For comparison 1957 was the peak of the baby boom in the U. S.

It was big only among muslims.

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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...

From 1945 to 1964, the US produced about 70M new people.

Do you mean the Russian baby boom....or The "Other" Russian Baby boom ...ya' know like in Germany ?

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.

Boomers were born between January 1946 and December 1964, both years inclusive.

Stalin was to busy mass murdering Christians and Muslins for a baby boom to happen!

I LOVE the way you deal with criticism.

I think that it would've been hard for couples to have romantic feelings towards each other during the Stalinist Era for obvious reasons.

Stalin was paranoid about a possible attack from capitalist countries and tried to make the Soviet Union look stronger than it was. That is probably why he exaggerated the demographic statistics

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

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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.

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.

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.

We have the opposite problem in the UK: the population figures are underestimated, so we don't notice how out of control immigration is...☹

Watching you from Bangladesh since 2020... I dont know why i fing Soviet stories extremely facinating...seems like i born before in USSR & reincarnate in Bangladesh... Strange feeling 😑

I think this is important because there is a natural tendency to assume that one's own world view is somehow inherently correct and everyone else's is only accurate to the extent that it corresponds to that of oneself. This is a good example, the concept of "baby boomer" is very different depending on what country you were in when you learned about WWII. I'm sure that the Germans have a view that is different still, yet valid in context. Another example is the fad of picking one's pronouns. Imagine how that concept sounds to someone whose native language is one that does not have gender-specific pronouns, like Tagalog for example. I would point out that this is a human tendency, and it is seen to some extent or another in every culture.

Because of the scarcity of men, only the prettiest women were chosen and therefore many babies were born per beautiful wife, hence, Baby Boom! . . . My father was one of those baby boomers.