An article entitled 10 million victims
in the Spanish newspaper El Pais on 29 August 1999 discussed
a UN Economic Commission
for Europe report on the social costs and consequences of the transformation
process in the former USSR, which stated:
"There have been significant changes in mortality. These vary
from a very big increase in Russia to declines in the former GDR (except
among adult males), Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Slovenia,
Poland and Hungary. The increase in mortality is concentrated in the
European part of the former Soviet Union and among men of
working age."
Only a corruption scandal has it made it possible to learn about the
terrible increase of mortality in men in the ex-Soviet countries ever
since the disappearance of the Soviet Union (it seems that these deaths
were of no interest to anybody… or only to their mothers?).
A political change can cause, in only a few years, many more deaths
than the Nazi Holocaust, and perhaps even more tragically. But not in
Jews -- in young men.
The Soviet Union was, in its time, considered to have the shortest
masculine life span relative to women in the world: men had a life span
of 10 years below that of women, which produced a “deficit”
of 17 million men in the URSS, to which we now have to add 9.7 million.
Now, with an absence of about 27 million men, it is not strange at all
that prostitutes from the East have come to European countries.
However, no political state is criticized because of a high mortality
rate in men -- not even by the staunchest enemy of such politics --
in the same way that no-one has denounced the sexual discrimination
in compulsory military or civilian service, not even by pacifist groups
or the political parties which back them up.
You are looked down upon if you are concerned about these deaths and
we may consider it ridiculous to seriously investigate their causes.
Perhaps this is why the Soviet Union collapsed unexpectedly and why
it is now involved in serious "culture wars" which concern
the relationship between men and women.
Is the Rule of Law really the Rule of Gendercide?
(See also: Manufacturing
Concern: Worthy and Unworthy Victims)
