Demographics of Ukraine.
— Trollstoy (@Trollstoy88) March 5, 2023
Western involvement in the country and the Euromaidan are literally the Ukrainian holocaust. pic.twitter.com/gzuNdBvuEv
WNU editor: I would not compare Ukraine's current demogaphic collapse to the Ukraine famine of 1932-33 that is known as Holodomor (link here).
But I do know that when this war is finally over and new boundaries are drawn, and they will be redrawn, Ukraine's population will be around 25 million.
What will also make the situation worse is that many of those who fled Ukraine are not going to return. I know among all of the Ukrainian refugees that I have helped in the past year, with the exception of a few who are elderly, the rest have made the decision to call Canada home, and they have no intention of returning back.
5 comments:
thanks, Gloria!
Population wise, Alot better off under the Soviets. Not surprising, since a large part of Soviet leadership was Ukrainian.
Even after the war their population will continue to decline
It won't be long before the rest of Europe is either closed off or more economically desperate than Ukraine. If the sell-off of land and assets to western banks can be stopped then the migration flows may eventually reverse.
Most countries of the former Soviet Union would look similar. Of course, instead of "Euromaidan" it would be more accurate to write "Russia invades". Who knew that Russia invading and occupying part of Ukraine would remove population from that country's total population? Or that fighting a major war would also reduce the population by killing people or creating refugees?
The proper comment here is "Russian invasion of Ukraine is literally the Ukrainian holocaust."
Of course, WNU Editor is right, as bad as Russian's invasion is, it is not as bad as the Holodomor.
I don't know yet how the war will finally turn out. I'd need to see the results of the next Ukrainian offensive to get an idea of the likely future borders. And even after peace, Ukraine will still need to achieve a lot of reform to make it attractive. But potential EU membership tends to propel a lot of reforms. Once Russian aggression is ended, I think the future of Ukraine will be a lot brighter. The war has certainly united Ukrainian public and elite opinion that it's future is with the West, ending the political division that has existed since independence.
Chris
Post a Comment