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2014-10-28T5:14:44+00:00

The contemporary Russian woman completely blows creationists' claims out of the water. This is what Russian women looked like before World War II. This is what they look like now. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union the Russian woman has gained unparalleled access to beauty products and has fallen in love with same, but makeup alone won't turn the women of the top photo into the one in the bottom one. World War II made this happen - namely WWII Soviet Red Army combat fatalities. I've tried to pin down a good accurate number of Red Army KIAs, but it's proven impossible. Every tabulator uses a different method, propaganda got in the way of some of them, heightened secrecy...also, rest assured there are companies who were wiped completely off the face of the earth who had no idea how many troops were actually in them before they went downrange. Simply put, we have no fucking idea how many soldiers were really in the Red Army, nor do we know how many of them died - but all the rough estimates put it at between 8 and 15 million dead troops, and a total of between 20 and 30 million dead Soviets of all stripes. This created a buyer's market, so to speak, for men seeking wives and, as men everywhere do, they gravitated toward the prettier ones. It took several generations to level out the balance of the sexes, and while it was happening the less attractive members of Soviet womanhood were denied the opportunity to reproduce. Next time some creationist tells you God put people on earth fully realized, show them this.

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Or maybe ugly men died off faster in war... Kalidurga Oct 2014 #1

ehhhhh no bmac19gg Oct 2014 #2

+1 liberal_at_heart Oct 2014 #3

Thanks for calling bullshit on this. bvf Oct 2014 #4

Kalidurga

(14,177 posts)

1. Or maybe ugly men died off faster in war...

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Tue Oct 28, 2014, 01:17 AM

Oct 2014

bmac19gg

(96 posts)

2. ehhhhh no

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Tue Oct 28, 2014, 01:45 AM

Oct 2014

The only thing demonstrated by those two pictures is the evolution of the expectations of beauty via photoshop.

liberal_at_heart

(12,081 posts)

3. +1

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Tue Oct 28, 2014, 01:48 AM

Oct 2014

bvf

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4. Thanks for calling bullshit on this.

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Tue Oct 28, 2014, 01:57 AM

Oct 2014

Even without the Photoshop angle, all this "demonstrates" is that children inherit genetic characteristics of their parents and ancestors.

I hate to think of anyone actually pointing to this post in support of an argument for evolution. (No argument should even be necessary in this day and age, but that's a different issue completely.)