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My parents, the Soviet equivalent to baby boomers, were the first generation in Russian history to not experience famine. My grandmother experienced it as did her parents, and she did not know her grandparents, they died young. The average Russians were chronically malnourished. That is why child mortality rates and death rates from measles, typhus, scarlet fever, whooping cough had Russia at first place per 100,000 people.[/quote]

I don't know what to tell you.  My parents were born in the 1930s and the 1940s so whatever equivalency to the boomers you were using.  My father came from a family of railway workers. My mother was a daughter of a well-to-do baker.  None knew famine before the war came.   My mother and her three siblings were orphaned when their parents perished - father killed at the front and mother of TB.  My mother was five at the time. All four kids went to the state orphanage where they were fed and clothed as well as wartime Russia allowed.  All were also educated to become self-sufficient upon graduation (from the Leningrad conservatory in my mother's case).  None became a street kid, was abused or starved or lost in the great wartime vortex.  All siblings went on to marry and have children of their own and maintain close ties.

My generation (born in the 70s) was vaccinated religiously so not sure what you mean about the rates of infectious disease. [/quote]

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