"Health minister Dr Yevgeny Shestopalov said: ‘Being very busy at work is not a valid reason, but a lame excuse.’

‘You can engage in procreation during breaks, because life flies by too quickly.’

...

She quizzed him: ‘There are people who work 12 to 14 hours – when do they make babies?’

He replied: ‘During break times.’"

Can you imagine? Your fucking boss ordering you to have sex and give birth? Welcome to #fascist Russia

2/4

Of note: this is what the #Republicans #GOP wants for #America #USA:

"MP Tatyana Butskaya, 49, has drawn up a blueprint for employers to coerce women to have babies.

She said: ‘Large families are becoming the new elite. Regional governors should report on the birth rate….

‘Each employer should look at their workplace, what is your birth rate? Here in your team.

‘Do you have one more child this year from each person who can give birth to a child this year – or not?

...

3/4

‘This is exactly how we should pose this question….we will monitor it. In a year, our task is, of course, to increase it.’

Another region in Russia called Chelyabinsk – is even paying students who are #women under the age of 24 £8,500 for the birth of their first child.

Access to #abortion across the country is also being blocked as public figures and churchmen claim women’s duty is to give birth and raise children.

The fees for #divorce have also been increased."

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A fucking nightmare

4/4

Addendum:

I feel for the Russian people

They are being reduced to livestock: pump out babies, have them murdered for #imperialism

Unfortunately, it falls on them to rise up and destroy this fascist Russian regime

If you say they are too passive and disempowered, they never will:

Ok, then they have the hell of current existence to reckon with. And it gets worse

I'd rather reckon with dying, to overthrow Putin

Maybe that's just me

But I bet that over time more Russians see it this way too

"Politician Anna Kuznetsova has also demanded women start giving birth at a young age.

She said: ‘You should start giving birth at 19-20 years old. Then, statistically, the family will be able to have three, four, or more children.’

MP Zhanna Ryabtseva added: ‘Give birth, give birth and give birth again, you need to give birth, give birth at 18.’"

This what fascism wants for us

Fascism is rising in the West

And this is the vision fascists in the West want for us:

human cattle

@hannu_ikonen I mean... I realize how fucked up what I'm about to write is... but this form of fascism manages to somehow be even worse?

At least Hitler had the decency (nope!) to acknowledge that raising many kids takes effort, and told women to stay home for it.

Brrr, that sentence felt awful. The point being, this suggests they want women to be baby factories AND productive workers. How the slavery is that supposed to work?

Utterly depraved. Also, sadly, entirely expected.

@hannu_ikonen Like... it isn't even just Russia. That's just modern day fascism with the mask off.

If you look a little critically at what right wing shitheads talk about these days, it's there in every country where I follow politics. They really must hate women.

They foster the conditions of poverty, or near-poverty, that makes it impossible not to have multiple income earners, and then revive these breeding ideas. The implied assumption is that women will be bearing a double load.