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[–] [email protected] 21 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Note: This is from last year. The numbers are much higher now. Ukraine puts the number of dead Russian soldiers at 376,030. The US says it's 315,000 personnel.

Either way, if those numbers are anywhere close to the trugh, then Russia has already lost ~50% of the personnel that the entire Soviet Union lost in its 9 year-long invasion of Afghanistan. And the fallout of the war in Afghanistan contributed a lot to the fall of the Soviet Union.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Assuming there's 20M Russians aged 20-44 (4M/slice of 5 years), that's around 2%. Low enough to hide it from most.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

That's what the Soviet leaders back in the day probably thought too.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I ddg russian population 2023 and got this from world-o-meter: "9th Russia 144,444,359(estimated population) -0.19%(change) -268,955(net)"

Until they have to mobilize the more dense populated area, it's just a number game for them I guess.

Oh, and compare to Ukraine, it's pretty dark.

"41th Ukraine 36,744,634 -7.45 % -2,957,105" in the later column, Migrant listed as 1,784,718 assuming fled the war. so should be part of that -2.9m decline number. I don't know what happened to the other 1.2m.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I'm not sure how reliable those #s are.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

They are all estimates from UN or WHO. So not accurate to the digits.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

I've set my city to Moscow on Tinder and have been cleaning up

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I find the numbers in the article odd. 30 000 fled to Finland based on it, and that's actually the amount of Russian nationals in Finland now. (80 000 Russian speaking). It's as if there were 0 before the war, which cannot be true.

[–] TheFonz 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

True, but we don't know how many exited Finland so it could be a wash, no?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

We Finns do know. Our border control is very strict. We know who enter and if the same person stayed or left.

[–] MeaanBeaan 2 points 9 months ago

I don't know why but I read this like you're cutely teasing us with information you have but you'll never give.

[–] Beefcyclone 2 points 9 months ago

Nowt new here, Putin doesn't give a shit about anyone but himself. If it takes the entire population of Russia that's a rice he's willing to pay to be in power, he knows the moment he's not at the top he's dead.