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Russia Mulling Voluntary Mass Relocation | ||
2010-11-18 | ||
The Kremlin is considering pushing ahead with the biggest geographical redistribution of its population since Stalin's forced deportations of entire nationalities in the 1940s. Under the plans, which were leaked to the daily Vedomosti newspaper, the majority of Russia's 141 million population would be -- concentrated in just 20 urban centres rather than sparsely spread out over one-fifth of the earth's surface as is now the case.
Unlike in Stalin's day, when people were forced to move at gunpoint on the often spurious grounds that they were "enemies of the people" or Nazi collaborators, relocating would be optional and encouraged on economic grounds alone.
Analysts said the plan, which would roll back the Soviet idea of urbanizing the entire country, is likely to be heavily touted by President Dmitry Medvedev as part of his agenda to modernize Russia. "Changing the map of the country is a necessary but not simple task which needs to be done very carefully as any overreaction could lead to a fight for urban resources," a government official was quoted as saying. With speculation mounting about whether Medvedev or Vladimir Putin, the prime minister, will run for the presidency in 2012, the plan could be a useful electoral tool for Medvedev, according to analysts. | ||
Posted by: Anonymoose |
#7 Looks like an invitation for the Chinese to walk into Siberia. |
Posted by: Omiting the Younger 2010-11-18 10:39 |
#6 At the moment, 90 per cent of Russia's towns have a population of 100,000 people or less, many of them in remote locations. The leaked plan said such places had "no future" and were not worth developing. I guess that's what happens when populations are so disgruntled they don't even have enough babies to have a future. |
Posted by: gorb 2010-11-18 10:23 |
#5 ...yes, Marina Orlova has a few words about that subject. |
Posted by: Procopius2k 2010-11-18 09:38 |
#4 They need more babies. They should discourage exporting the baby factories as mail order brides. |
Posted by: Glenmore from TN 2010-11-18 08:47 |
#3 Getting overrun by 'non-Russians' in the hinterland and threatened back at the old homestead, this plan appears to be a form of moving the wagon's into a circle. |
Posted by: Procopius2k 2010-11-18 08:39 |
#2 the plan could be a useful electoral tool for Medvedev, according to analysts. Behold the Fulton County Georgia Democratic model. Food stamps, Fannie & Freddie low/no interest housing, and gov't handouts take a bit longer, but the results are astonishingly similar. Anything within 25 miles of the Atlanta Hartsfield Jackson Airport |
Posted by: Besoeker 2010-11-18 01:39 |
#1 PEOPLE'S DAILY.CN FORUM > CHINA REPLACING RUSSIA IN CENTRAL ASIA. versus * TOPIX > KAN TO HU: SENKAKUS IS JAPANESE TERRITORY. * SAME > TERRITORIAL DISPUTES ARE SIGN OF NEW COLD WAR IN ASIA. All 66 of 'em. * SAME > JAPAN: TERRITORIAL ROWS UNDERCUTTING PACIFIST STANCE. Which in turn may lead to domestic Popular + Political Support for a RE-ARMED, MILPOL = GEOPOL AGGRESIVE JAPAN - ALSO READ, NUCLEAR-ARMED JAPAN. NUCLEAR NIHONJO. ** BHARAT RAKSHAK/INDIAN DEFENCE POSTERS > INDJUH'S NAVY will go FULLY NUKIES once PAKISTAN learns to dev + marry PLUTONIUM WARHEADS to its LAND-BASED MISSLES + ultimately its NAVAL MISSLES. WHERE NUC PAKISTAN GOES, NUC-WANNABE IRAN IS NOT FAR BEHIND. |
Posted by: JosephMendiola 2010-11-18 00:34 |