A staunch Putin-supporting mayor has informed the boys of the southern Russian metropolis he reigns over to “sneak up” on girl and make them pregnant within the identify of patriotism.
Mikhail Minenkov defined his recommendation was his answer to the despot’s demand for bigger households to stem a diabolical drop in Russia‘s inhabitants exasperated by his invasion of Ukraine. In his “appeal to men”, the 46-year-old reservist colonel informed Nevinnomyssk, a metropolis of 117,500 individuals within the Stavropol area to “sneak up” on ladies.
He stated: “Sneak up in your beloved tonight and in precisely 9 months, say, on the finish of 2024, give start to not 700 individuals, however to 10,000.” He added: “10,000 families, couples have to do something tonight, tomorrow night. Fall in love.
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“The remaining 10,000 do it next year. So we will have, dear friends, not 3,020 children in our city’s kindergartens, but many more.
“It may sound naïve or ridiculous…but it has to be pushed, moved, persuaded…”
The married father-of-three, who was honoured by Putin as a Hero of Russia for his warfare efforts in Chechnya, claimed this was the one solution to rebuild the inhabitants which has slumped, partly resulting from Putin’s warfare.
More than 300,000 Russians have been killed or maimed in lower than two years.
“Don’t sleep in the evening, don’t eat, don’t drink,” Minenkov added.
“But fall in love…and believe me, then life will be much better.”
Putin, 71, this week informed college students to start out having youngsters early, and with a minimal of three, implying it was their obligation to the motherland.
“In order to ensure the growth of the people and the population, it is a minimum need for a family to have three children,” he demanded.
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“And for this to happen, the family must be born early [when the parents are still young].”
Holding up two fingers, he stated two youngsters weren’t sufficient.
Yet Russians complain the warfare has triggered insecurity and financial chaos which doesn’t encourage households to have youngsters.
Minenkov confronted backing from many locals however ridicule from others.
One requested: “Have more kids so they can be sent to die in the war at 18?”
Another stated: “Does he want to abolish the rape law?”
An extra remark requested: “How did he develop into a mayor with such intelligence?”
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