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[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today -2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

plus 1million+ men fled russia early in the war too. since russia has 144m people, they lost 1/14 population from that alone, and then the "deaths and casualties"

[–] staph@sopuli.xyz 25 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Sorry the math ain't mathing. 1M is a lot, and russia has significantly damaged its demographics, but the math just ain't mathing

[–] nibbler@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Nah, it works out fine. If you lose 1 in 144, that clearly calculates to 1 in 14. Maybe even 1 in 1. Anybody seen Russia lately?

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Besides, as much as I wish for the numbers to be big, most likely there were less than 1M leaving the country for good.

[–] nibbler@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 5 days ago

Also leaving Russia does not equate to disagreeing with Russia. Just disagreeing with personally dying for Russia.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 8 points 4 days ago

US education math grad.