History is the memory of things that have been said and done. —Carl Baker
The history of mankind is a history of war, and the largest war in human history is undoubtedly the Second World War of the last century. The war, which has involved 1.7 billion people in 61 countries and territories (75% of the world) and displaced hundreds of people, is a catastrophe of human beings' own making.
As the saying goes, "there is no winner after the gunshot", although World War II was finally declared victorious by the Allies, it also paid a heavy price. For the participating countries, the biggest loss is naturally the personnel. According to statistics, World War II caused more than 70 million deaths and 130 million injuries around the world, such a huge number, unprecedented in history.
After the end of World War II, the world entered an era of peaceful development. As the most basic element of national development, people naturally find ways to fill this gap. It should be known that soon after the end of the war, the demographic structure of the main participating countries fell into a serious imbalance. In Japan and Germany, for example, where most men died in the war, adult males accounted for less than 30% of the country's population after the war.
As a result, countries began to introduce various policies to stimulate population growth. In Germany, for example, because a large number of young men died on the battlefield, the Soviets stationed in Germany helped a lot, and a large number of German women conceived Soviet children. In addition, the German government has also introduced a large number of laborers to reduce the legal age of marriage for women to 16 years old, which can be said to be quite anxious.
Speaking of the Soviet Union, don't look at the Soviet Union as contributing a lot to Germany's population growth. In fact, they themselves were also seriously injured, and the country with the most casualties in World War II was the Soviet Union, with 26.6 million people, more than China.
However, after the war, the Soviet Union was the country with the fastest population recovery. The Soviet government first lowered the legal age of marriage to 14 years, and coupled with the superiority of the socialist system, the mobilization throughout the country was quite successful. At that time, the Soviet Union also developed a "heroic mother" system, linking the number of births to national honors. It is said that one year a "heroic mother" in the Soviet Union gave birth to 40 children.
Compared with the Soviet Union and Germany, Japan's policy is obviously a bit crazy. At first, Japan also wanted to learn from the Soviet "heroic mother" model, but after all, they were small governments under capitalism, and the mobilization and propaganda intensity was far inferior to that of the Soviet Union, so they had to learn from the legal age context.
Unexpectedly, the Japanese government lowered the legal age of marriage to 13, creating a lower limit for all countries. To know that 13 years old for some late-maturing children have not even entered puberty, it can be seen that the Japanese government is mad.
In addition, they recruited a large number of pro-Japanese men from the Philippines and Malaysia to develop in Japan in order to alleviate the shortage of men in their own countries. Of course, the most shocking thing is Japan's "racial improvement program." They send a large number of domestic women to the US military camps and The Nanyang countries to work as sex workers, and directly return to their home countries after pregnancy. Such a way of disrespecting women has really made countries spurn it.
In contrast, in our country, there is no need to worry about the number of people. Because China's traditional culture has always had the concept of "raising children and preventing the elderly" and "having many children and many blessings", after the founding of New China, the century of turmoil ended, the social environment tended to be stable, and the Chinese people took the initiative to start giving birth.
Because of its large base, there is no need to even introduce foreign population. Therefore, our government did not introduce any policies to stimulate population growth after the war, and it did not take long for the population to double. Even later, in order to control the growth rate, the "family planning" policy was deliberately introduced, which was the first time in the countries participating in World War II. Such a reliable population growth model is also the envy of other countries.
It is also because of the concerted efforts of all countries in the world, decades after the end of World War II, the world's population ushered in explosive growth, and mankind finally recovered from the haze of World War II.