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fueled by plunging birth rates.Putin signed a decree Monday reviving the honorary title "Mother Heroine," which Soviet leader Josef Stalin
first established in 1944 in the wake of massive population losses during World War II
will be bestowed on women who bear and raise 10 or more children.Qualifying mothers are awarded a one-time payment of 1 million rubles
same status level as high-ranking state orders like the Hero of Russia and Hero of Labor.Putin claimed that large families were seeing a
