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Russia’s Health Minister: ‘Women Should Put off Careers and Education Until After Child Birth’
As the young men of Russia die or return to their homes forever damaged, companies are struggling to find replacements for the lost workers. The Russian Minister of Health came up with a doozy of an idea for helping the country with its labor shortage: keep women untrained and out of the labor force altogether by making them first get pregnant.
At a plenary meeting of Russia’s State Duma on Tuesday, Russian Health Minister Mikhail Murashko said that women should give birth as early in life as possible rather than pursuing their education and building careers (Give Birth as Early as Possible).
Sounds utterly off-the-wall but this, folks, is what Russia has become 18 months after the invasion of Ukraine. With the Genie out of the bottle and stupid being harvested like Afghani poppies, Kremlin officials are upturning old furniture and running their hands through the cushions of priceless divans in their mad hunt for every bad, racist, misogynistic instinct.
The comment by the Minister of Health was not yet adjusted policy but it was surely a trial balloon. He wouldn’t have made such a statement if someone in the mildewy, dang…
