Is the surplus of Russian women just Russian men dying from dumb shit and drinking themselves to death ?
Late, gay, and off-topic. But it is due to WW2 wiping out most of the would-be old males in Russia, their falling tfrs which makes it so that the older generations make out a larger percentage of their total population, and the gang violence/drug epidemic of the 90s and early 2000s.
Back on topic, one of India's main problems that isn't all that mentioned is that of dacoity, which basically means banditry. And when I say banditry, I mean actual, Wild West feather indian-style banditry, where groups of dozens of armed indians (men and even some women) form gangs and then proceed to raid farms, villages, small settlements and what have you with the goal of stealing anything that's valuable, kidnapping the family members of rich individuals to hold ransom, then quickly running for the hills, hiding from the authorities, rinse and repeat for years on end, sometimes even ambushing and killing the policemen who go out searching for them. The problem was so prevalent in some regions that
even the New York Times back in the 80s published articles where they detailed their MO, the reason as to why the things got slightly better in the present is because the goverment basically paid off the bandits to make them stop:
Not far from the ashram, Raghbir Singh, a thin, 28-year-old former dacoit, farms 10 dry acres that he was given by the Government along with $250 after leaving the open jail as part of the amnesty and rehabilitation arrangement.
(Keep in mind, these are $250 1980s dollars in India, no small sum)
Most of those bandits were given full amnesty, with some of them
even becoming members of India's Parliament, (before getting assassinated by the family members of the people they victimized). If you wonder why India is such a crime-ridden hellhole, it is in no small part due to the fact that hardened criminals like this nice lady:
Or these upstanding citizens:
Got a say on national politics.
But that isn't the end of the story, as such practices continue
even to this day. I hope that this was a nice history lesson about the Superpower by 2030