Putin announces 1M Ruble award for having... ten living children in a row.

[Pedocon Theory is not a theory]

https://twitter.com/maxseddon/status/1559271763028090881

[GeneralMacArthur]

This is utterly pathetic lmao

[Lexii, harbinger of chaos and sexual anarchy]

At least it's money, if not that much, here you only get to be godfathered by the president if you're the 7th consecutive son or daughter, in an effort to avoid them from turning into werewolves, and yes, this is an actual law that's still enforced

(There's also the pension for having 7 children, regardless of sex or gender, but that one's less amusing)

[Mr. Smith]

Only 1M?

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Only 1M?

When the Soviet Union had this award you got a kind of cool-looking medal too. Is Putin planning to give these women a cool-looking medal?

[Conservatopia]

1m roubles is about enough money to feed 1 kid for a day so not massively helpful.

[CumbrianLefty]

And by the time some get around to having their 10th (!) child, it will likely be worth even less.

[DaleCooper]

Example #240513 of the hard-right's obsession with family above all else. Even then, who the hell would want to have ten kids in exchange for the equivelent of 16K USD? Wouldn't you have to spend more than that just to raise that many children in the first place?

Being obsessed with family above all else is a virtue, but it's not one that the hard-right has. They're obsessed with childbirth, with no care whatsoever for family.

[Frodo]

China is at it too:

China unveils new perks aimed at boosting slowing birth rate

[The Mikado]

Communist Romania during the 70s-80s did a similar thing, but the reward was a car.

A. Car. For a family that's presumably now two adults and ten children.

[If my soul was made of stone]

If Moscow really is the third Rome, then Putin should put his money where his mouth is and complete this package by reviving Lupercalia. Just imo

[Cassius]

1m roubles is about enough money to feed 1 kid for a day so not massively helpful.

British children may be fat… but they’re not that fat.

[Santander]

China is at it too:

China unveils new perks aimed at boosting slowing birth rate

A lot of countries have baby bonuses. This particular example is notable for how Soviet it is.

[Joe Republic]

Not just the Soviets.

[TiltsAreUnderrated]

Not just the Soviets.

Only 4 kids and they were allowed to die. Easy mode!

[Adam Griffin]

Stop subsidizing breeders

[CumbrianLefty]

Wikipedia says there is a rough French equivalent as well.

[Associate Justice PiT]

China is at it too:

China unveils new perks aimed at boosting slowing birth rate

A lot of countries have baby bonuses. This particular example is notable for how Soviet it is.

     I support incentives for childbearing, but that part jumped out at me too. The mark of 10 children is probably not a coincidence considering that Putin has been actively invoking Russian memory in other aspects.

     My personal favorite childbearing incentive in the world is that in the country of Georgia third-born and later children are personally baptized by the Catholicos-Patriarch. I wonder if parents feel somewhat cheated since he is old and decrepit now and needs an assistant to actually dunk the child. Maybe not though, since he is overwhelmingly popular in the country.