Why the russian authorities are promising russians a life up to 100
russian propaganda is actively spreading statements by the head of the russian WHO office claiming that russians will live up to 100 years old in the near future thanks to advances in medicine and science.
▫️This narrative is being promoted amid a record drop in life expectancy since the early 2000s. Massive losses of the russian army in Ukraine have led the kremlin to classify mortality data for 2024.
At the same time, economic problems in russia are worsening, there is a growing shortage of medicines, and the regime continues to romanticize a traditional, non-technological but “spiritual” way of life. Meanwhile, restrictions on access to higher education and freedom of movement are increasing.
In these conditions, ru-propaganda is trying to fabricate a sense of “light at the end of the tunnel”, in the form of “predictions about a high-tech russia of the future.” In reality, putin’s regime is destroying russians in a war of aggression and dragging the country into a backward past.
