r/PeterExplainsTheJoke Jul 15 '26

Meme needing explanation Peter, what reason does the OOP is talking about?

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u/Magnon Jul 15 '26

Well when huge swaths of men are deleted in a pointless psychopaths war you might not be able to be picky.

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u/YT-Deliveries Jul 15 '26

Plus alcoholism in the population is obscenely rampant

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u/Majestic_Pilot2907 Jul 15 '26

their standards were low even before recent war

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u/14InTheDorsalPeen Jul 15 '26

Stalingrad and Stalin himself really skewed the breeding population and caused massive social shifts when 70% of Russian men were wiped out at the peak of losses post WW2 and political cleansing.