Thread: Почему распался Советский Союз? Что происходит в Прибалтике, и немного истории

Yes Basil77, but look a bit further -
File:Ethnic groups in Latvia.png - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
And you will see that number of ethnic Latvians was +/- constant all the time (but is slowly decreasing now).
Ethnic Russian population on the other hand decreased a lot faster.
And rapid increase of Russian population in Soviet times was because Moscow sent immigrants here - and their inflow stopped after USSR dissolution.
And as you can see a lot of them went back to USSR after that.


The same with Estonia - ethnic Estonian population did not change much - Russian population decreased there.
And the same with Lithuania.
In all Baltic states, after occupation ended, percentage of "main" ethnicity grew, but Russian population decreased.
And we view that as a good sign.


Latvian population decreased in 90s because it was a period of crisis and uncertainty and people chose to have less children.
Russia's population chart is similar:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Po..._of_Russia.PNG

Originally Posted by nulle

And rapid increase of Russian population in Soviet times was because Moscow sent immigrants here - and their inflow stopped after USSR dissolution.
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Russia's population chart is similar:
File:Population of Russia.PNG - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Maybe you would care to explain why Russian population chart is similar? Who did send immigrants to Russia during the Soviet times?

Originally Posted by Basil77

Maybe you would care to explain why Russian population chart is similar? Who did send immigrants to Russia during the Soviet times?

It‘s because it was strictly forbidden to leave USSR and it’s simply natural that the number of people increased there because Russians were used to have BIG families and by the way as you know now there are more possibilities to leave this country, this is why number of people in Russia is decreasing By the way, first of all, try to find out if people were allowed to leave USSR during soviet times and then you won’t have such silly questions…