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Revision as of 23:46, June 16, 2016
, 23:46, June 16, 2016→Secular Europe and its countries aging populations
Europe's aging population is a serious issue and it will stress its various pension systems.<ref>[https://www.gfmag.com/magazine/julyaugust-2004/cover-story-the-looming-pensions-crisis Looming pension crisis]</ref>
Europe's aging population is a serious issue and it will stress its various pension systems.<ref>[https://www.gfmag.com/magazine/julyaugust-2004/cover-story-the-looming-pensions-crisis Looming pension crisis]</ref>
== Communists and elderly in Russia ==
Atheist ideology is part of [[communism|communist]] ideology (see: [[Atheism and communism]]).
In 2002, the The National Council for Eurasian and East European Research published a paper entitled Are the Communist Dying out in Russia? which declared:
{{Cquote|According to many observers of Russian politics, advocates of market-oriented reform have time on their side. A number of studies have reported that backing for the Communist Party and opposition to reform is concentrated among the elderly. As this cohort of voters – people who came of age during the Stalinist era and who have suffered disproportionately from Yeltsin-era economic reforms – dies off, one
would expect to see a decline in support for the Communists and weaker resistance to further reform measures. The results of elections in 1999 and 2000, however, show that support for the Communists remained relatively steady over the decade of the 1990s...
This is probably pretty good news for Zyuganov and the Communists. According to data on the age structure of the Russian population, there are many millions of people over fifty years old and, thus,
too old to smoothly transition to the ways of the new economy. Support for the Communists among such people is disproportionately strong, and old workers (who are soon-to-be pensioners) will remain a very large category of voters for many years to come.<ref>[https://www.ucis.pitt.edu/nceeer/2002-815-12g-Kiewiet.pdf ARE THE COMMUNISTS DYING OUT IN RUSSIA?], The National Council for Eurasian and East European Research<ref>}}
== Aging atheist populations and belief in God ==
== Aging atheist populations and belief in God ==