cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/3235819
Openly defending one’s decision not to have children will be prosecuted in Russia. The State Duma, the lower house of the Russian parliament, is preparing a bill under which authorities will impose fines of up to €50,000 ($55,580) for supporting “the refusal to have children.” The measure affects all areas of life — from casual conversation to films and books — and is a serious threat to the Russian feminist movement.
The crackdown on what the Kremlin calls the “childfree” movement will result in fines of up to 400,000 rubles for individuals (around $4,300), 800,000 rubles for civil servants ($8,600), and up to five million rubles ($55,580) for companies or other legal entities. Foreigners will also be deported.
There are thousands of reasons why a person may decide not to have children, but the Cabinet of ministers has asked the State Duma to make only three exceptions to the law: religious reasons, medical reasons or in the case of rape. It also alleges that there is a mass-organized childfree movement, even though the websites on this subject are little more than a curiosity; Russian newspapers cite the existence of groups on VKontakte, the Russian Facebook, which barely have 5,000 members.
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Can’t wait to hear the tankie apologetics for this one.
as a tankie myself I can tell you that since Stalin died the USSR has had practically nothing to do with socialism . The book Socialism Betrayed gets into detail about this.
Its become a shameless imperialistic state with a capitalistic dictator and his oligarch cronies running and owning practically everything.
The only reason I want to hear about Russia ever again is when they finnaly leave The ukraine.
“The revolution will need future soldiers to fight the imperialist dogs!”