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    2 months ago

    They never fully recovered from ww2, insane population loss of young, healthy men and women

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      2 months ago

      They were 4th in the early 2000’s and at one point had a population larger than the USA when they were the USSR.

      Not to mention the Cold War and they very much recovered from WWII.

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        2 months ago

        I think the Russian Empire/USSR always had a larger population than the US.