THE RISING SLAV TIDE
/ HIGHEST BIRTHRATE IN ' EUROPE RUSSIA WELL IX THE LEAD "Russia has the highest birthrate in Europe—l4o babies yearly to every '1000 women between fifteen and fifty years of age; then comes Bulgaria with 136 babies, Yugoslavia with 132, former Poland with 115, and former Czechoslovakia with 100," says M. Pribitchevich in Living Space. "This last is the same as the most fecund non-(Slav European country, Italy. In Soviet Russia alone the population increase since 1926 has been 15.9 per cent., compared with Italy's 9, Germany's 7, England's 5, and France's 2.7. Slavs, Latins and Germanics, (with the Anglo-Saxons and Scandinavians) were about evenly distributed in Europe by 1810; the first numbered 65 millions, thes econd 63, and the third 59. In 1930 there were 70 million Anglo-Saxons and Scandinvaians, 80 million Germans, 120 million Latins and 225 million Slavs When one recalls that of a quarter of a billion Slavs, 175 million are Russians and Ukrainians, the remaining 50. millions being split among the Poles, Czechs, Serbs, Bulgars, Croats, Slovaks and Slovenes —it appears that pan-Slavism is ultimately Russianism."
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 250, 16 December 1940, Page 2
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183THE RISING SLAV TIDE Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 250, 16 December 1940, Page 2
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