Putin Wants To Restore Hero Mother Order, A Device Stalin Introduced To Cope With War Losses – OpEd

Faced with population losses in World War II, Stalin in July 1944 created the Hero Mother order which over the next 47 years was given to 430,000 Soviet women who gave birth to at least ten children each. He also created the Maternity Medal for women with five children and the Order of Maternal Glory with seven. Five million...