Russian youths encouraged to procreate at camp

[Mrs Behavin]

Sex for the motherland: Russian youths encouraged to procreate at camp | the Daily Mail

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.

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. But the real aim of the youth camp - and the 100,000-strong movement behind it - is not to improve Russia's demographic profile, but to attack democracy.

 

[GraceAbounds]

confusedconfused:confused

 

[dt3]

Now if only I can convince Amber that I'm Russian...

 

[IntruderLS1]

I understand the reasoning behind Russian efforts to bring up the numbers, but the author totally loses me with the "attack democracy" bit. ???

 

[All Else Failed]

Sounds like my kind of camp.

 

[GraceAbounds]

I understand the reasoning behind Russian efforts to bring up the numbers, but the author totally loses me with the "attack democracy" bit. ???

Yeah, that is what I didn't get either. It went from one subject to throwing that in there and I was just like 'what?!' :confused

 

[dt3]

Sounds like my kind of camp.

I think it violates their basic human right not to procreate. I mean, it's basically state mandated rape.

 

[All Else Failed]

I think it violates their basic human right not to procreate. I mean, it's basically state mandated rape.

I was being sarcastic.

 

[dt3]

I was being sarcastic.

Me too :cool

 

[IntruderLS1]

I think it violates their basic human right not to procreate. I mean, it's basically state mandated rape.

LOL That was freakish. I had to take a double take to see who posted it! ha-ha.