The only reason Russia--and the USSR before it--worked at all was the babushkas, the grandmas. The generation of men who were young 1941-1945 basically died in the Great Patriotic War. If the grannies didn't deal with shit, it didn't get dealt with.
Harry Turtledove
Andrew Tate: “You see that Russia is a very patriotic nation and they don’t fear having a masculine population.”
✅FAST CHECK: 1.3 million russian dead and wounded who were sent to invade Ukraine.