Throughout the history of mankind, countless wars have been interspersed. During the war, many young and middle-aged laborers were recruited into the battlefield, and even many women were transferred to arsenals for production work.
Whenever the war is over, there are always many problems left behind. Economic losses are on the one hand, more of a mass casualty.
Therefore, how to quickly restore the population after the war has become the most urgent thing for all countries. Today, I will let you lead you through that period of history.
When it comes to the largest and most seriously injured war in human history, it must belong to the Second World War of the last century.
Countless countries have been caught up in this war, and the economic and demographic losses have been heavy. Although in the end, the Allies won the victory, but also paid a terrible price,
According to post-war statistics, the death toll on both sides of the war was as high as 70 million, and 130 million people were devastated by the war. The Soviet Union, the country with the largest population loss in World War II, also formulated a series of population development plans after the war.
Since the outbreak of the Soviet-German war, the whole war has been in a state of stalemate. In the face of the German invasion, the Red Army could only recruit a large number of soldiers from civilians and use them to enter the war.
On May 9, 1945, the Soviet-German War officially ended as a Soviet soldier planted a red flag on the roof of the Reichstag.
After the war, the male population of the Soviet Union was only 74.37 million, and the labor force was seriously insufficient. In order to restore the population size, solve the population crisis, and thus further restore the normal production order in the country, the Soviet Union formulated a series of policies.
Before the war, Soviet women could only marry if they were eighteen years of age. But after the war, in order to promote population growth, the Soviet Union lowered the legal age to 16 years old.
Now it seems that the 16-year-old girl is in her prime, still in high school. But in that era, in order to promote the development of the population, these young girls were already married.
Moreover, in the war, many women lost their husbands and became widows, so they had to carry the burden of the family alone. With a large number of prisoners of war were sent to the Soviet Union for labor reform. These Soviet women set their sights on these prisoners of war.
Love is always sweet, but the exotic love of that special era is often very fragile. The love of these Soviet women and prisoners of war was at great risk.
At that time, the relevant Departments of the Soviet Union specifically emphasized the prohibition of living with prisoners of war or marrying, and once discovered, they would lose their jobs at best or be expelled from the Party.
But this did not effectively prevent these things from happening, and some people still took the risk of maintaining closer contact with the prisoners of war. As a result, the authorities have also begun to turn a blind eye.
As long as it is not too blatant, it will not be managed too strictly. Therefore, these prisoners of war also contributed to the recovery of the Soviet population after the war to a certain extent.
Moreover, in order to encourage fertility, the Soviet Union also introduced a series of fertility incentive policies.
In 1944, the Soviet Union established the Mother's Series, which can be awarded by the government as long as a certain number of children are born, and the more children are born, the higher the rank of the medal, and the highest rank is the Heroic Mother Medal.
In November 1944, a mother in Moscow successfully received the Heroic Mother Medal because eight of her 12 children went to the army to serve the country, and four died on the battlefield. Therefore, the medal she received is also well-deserved.
Moreover, the mother who holds these medals also has certain hidden benefits. You can receive some of the few subsidies every month. At the same time, the government will also give a certain amount of financial compensation, but also enjoy some advanced medical care and education.
Under the implementation of these policies, the population of the Soviet Union grew relatively rapidly, and quickly returned to pre-war levels.
As a lonely island nation in the Pacific Ocean, Japan has fewer land and fewer people. But it was such a projectile land, which was quite active in World War II.
At the same time, Japan was not willing to own only land, so it sent its air force to bomb Pearl Harbor in an attempt to cripple the US Navy in order to seize sea supremacy.
Unfortunately, it is easy to pull the egg when the step is too big, and japan's approach has successfully pulled the United States off the battlefield. Subsequently, the U.S. military invested a large number of troops in the Pacific Theater and contained Japan.
Later, two atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan. On August 15, 1945, after the efforts of all parties, Japan finally announced its unconditional surrender.
As an aggressor, Japan suffered heavy casualties in this war. According to relevant information, the number of deaths in Japan in the entire war reached more than 3.5 million, most of which were men, which was a serious blow to Japan, which was already sparsely populated. Therefore, the restoration of the population has become the most important thing in Japan.
Initially, Japan wanted to learn from the Soviet Union's policy, but at this time Japan's national system was a constitutional monarchy and took the capitalist road. The Soviet Union is the socialist road, and the national conditions of the two countries are different. Therefore, when this policy was issued, the people who responded positively basically did not.
In the end, in desperation, the government made up its mind and issued a policy to lower the legal age of marriage to 13 years old. This practice has led to many young girls who are supposed to go to school drop out of school and return home, and have since become fertility tools.
And the Japanese government also strictly prohibits abortion, after learning that a woman is pregnant, it will send someone to register, if the child is successfully born, it will be issued some more generous rewards.
This was also an additional income for the poorer Japanese civilians after the war. As a result, Japan's population has increased rapidly, and there have been a large number of baby booms.
In addition, since the United States and Japan had signed the U.S.-Japan Security Treaty, there were a large number of U.S. soldiers in Japan. Japan had provided a large number of comfort women to these American troops, so when these American troops left, they left a large number of mixed-race children, which also indirectly promoted the growth of the Japanese population.
At the same time, Japan also changed its foreign policy and established a series of benefits to attract people from East Asian countries to immigrate to Japan. Through these measures, Japan's population grew rapidly, and within a few years, it maintained its population at pre-war levels. This practice has led to the rapid development of Japan's economy, and even jumped to become the second largest in the world.
Although this practice is extremely inhumane, it can even be said to be a trampling on Japanese women. But it is precisely because of this tough policy that the Structure of Japanese Society has gradually stabilized. In this regard, for the Japanese, Japanese women have established a great merit.
Also as a country emerging from the mud of World War II, Vietnam did not settle down after the war. When Ho Chi Minh declared Vietnam's independence, France, as its former colonizer, was naturally unhappy to lose this piece of cake in East Asia.
Therefore, the exiled Vietnamese emperor was supported to establish South Vietnam, and the Vietnam War broke out.
In this war, the United States and the Soviet Union sent troops into battle to maintain their own interests on this side. In order to end the battle quickly, the Americans not only bombed North Vietnam repeatedly, but also used the chemical weapon Agent Orange. The U.S. military's approach did have some success, but it also angered the North Vietnamese people.
Under the leadership of the Vietnamese Communist Party, the North Vietnamese people launched a large-scale guerrilla war, so the U.S. military was mired in the quagmire of the Vietnam War. And, due to the long time spent in Vietnam, many soldiers were tired of the war and wanted to return home.
At the same time, large-scale demonstrations broke out in the United States, and hundreds of thousands of students poured into the streets of Washington to carry out anti-war propaganda.
Forced to be helpless, in 1973, the US military could only withdraw from the Vietnamese battlefield in a gray and slippery way, leaving a mess for the Vietnamese people to clean up.
On July 2, 1976, with the reunification of Vietnam, the Vietnam War officially ended. At this point, Vietnam began to build its domestic economy.
But at this time, Vietnam found that in the years of war, the population loss was serious, the labor force was extremely short, so the most important task at present is to develop the population and then develop the economy.
Throughout Vietnam's entire history, it can be said that there are many wars. After Qin Shi Huang unified the world, Xiang County was established here. After that, the late Qin Dynasty was in chaos, and the management of this side was relatively lax, so this place was independent again.
However, the subsequent dynasties sent people to pacify this place, but because they did not achieve a certain effect, they ignored this side.
As a small country, Vietnam is not only small, but also sparsely populated. After this war, the population directly decreased by more than 3 million, which is not to mention the flight from the war. Faced with this situation, Vietnam immediately formulated some policies to develop the population. The most controversial of these is polygamy.
As a modern person, the concept of monogamy was already deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and at that time, most countries in the world were practicing monogamy. But in order to increase the number of children, Vietnam has formulated polygamy. After this policy came out, it caused an international discussion.
This approach does solve the problem of this underpopulation. As a result of the perennial war, many young men went to war and never returned. Continuing to insist on monogamy was clearly not in line with the national conditions of the time. Moreover, it will also lead to many women not being able to marry for life, which is not conducive to population growth.
As a result, this practice is gradually being accepted by many Vietnamese women. But then a bigger problem arose, which was that women could not go to the fields to farm while pregnant.
As a result, for a longer period of time, many Vietnamese women were left at home and childcare, while men took on the responsibility of providing for their families alone.
With the implementation of this policy, Vietnam's population has increased, the labor force has also increased, and the economic level has also continued to rise. So in 1992, Vietnam abolished polygamy.
In the world, there are many countries whose populations have not yet recovered, such as Ukraine, Russia, etc., which are undoubtedly the reasons for experiencing war.
War not only brought economic losses to people, but also shattered countless families, and this memory will always be engraved in people's hearts and cannot be erased.
Therefore, we must always remember the bitter consequences of war and cherish the stable life of the present!