Sex For The Motherland - Russian Youths Encouraged To Procreate At Camp

[hatrack]

Remember the mammoths, say the clean-cut organisers at the youth camp's mass wedding. "They became extinct because they did not have enough sex. That must not happen to Russia".

Obediently, couples move to a special section of dormitory tents arranged in a heart-shape and called the Love Oasis, where they can start procreating for the motherland. With its relentlessly upbeat tone, bizarre ideas and tight control, it sounds like a weird indoctrination session for a phoney religious cult. But this organisation - known as "Nashi", meaning "Ours" - is youth movement run by Vladimir Putin's Kremlin that has become a central part of Russian political life.

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Nashi's annual camp, 200 miles outside Moscow, is attended by 10,000 uniformed youngsters and involves two weeks of lectures and physical fitness. Attendance is monitored via compulsory electronic badges and anyone who misses three events is expelled. So are drinkers; alcohol is banned. But sex is encouraged, and condoms are nowhere on sale.

Bizarrely, young women are encouraged to hand in thongs and other skimpy underwear - supposedly a cause of sterility - and given more wholesome and substantial undergarments. Twenty-five couples marry at the start of the camp's first week and ten more at the start of the second. These mass weddings, the ultimate expression of devotion to the motherland, are legal and conducted by a civil official. Attempting to raise Russia's dismally low birthrate even by eccentric-seeming means might be understandable. Certainly, the country's demographic outlook is dire. The hard-drinking, hardsmoking and disease-ridden population is set to plunge by a million a year in the next decade.

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=471324&in_page_id=1770

[rockymountaindem]

1. The Komsomol was never this HOT!!!

:crazy:

[JVS]

2. Are foreigners allowed? It could make one hell of a tourist attraction. I can see it know...

"Come to Russia and knock someone up" ;-)

[YOY]

3. Yub tvoyu...ZHENA?!?!?

n/t

[shenmue]

4. Wow

I thought this was going to be kind of weird...

:wtf:

[Deja Q]

5. Mass weddings? Holy moonie cult, Batman!

:hide:

[cobalt1999]

6. Sounds like the camps the Germans setup in the 30's.

Russia today is a sick and dying country. Its birthrate is among the lowest in the world, its population is steadily shrinking, its economy is totally dependent on natural resources, and it is not at the cutting edge technologically.

The potential slide towards fascism is real and parallels with Europe's early spasms of fascism.

[hatrack]

7. Google "Lebensborn" and you'll get the picture

:eyes:

[cobalt1999]

9. that's exactly what it sounded like to me too.

Scary stuff. A fascist Russia and an expanding (and highly male) China make interesting neighbors and some interesting times ahead.

[hatrack]

10. It's worse than that - a fascist Russia with lots of oil & gas . . .

And an expanding, overwhelmingly male China, blended to an exquisite combination of foreign capital, high economic expectations, corrupt, inept government and explosive demand for energy.

Interesting times, indeed!

[Blue_Tires]

8. mammoths not havin enough sex?

that explains everything! (or maybe the mammoths just used the wrong hole)

[JHB]

11. The Clenis did it.

Mammoth extinction is all Bill Clinton's fault. :sarcasm: