Ummm, I think if the population of Moscow was only 15% of what the soviets were claiming, more than a couple of people would have noticed. That’s a pretty honking big discrepancy.
The mayors of the machine -run, corrupt Democratic party-held cities (NYC, Boston, Providence, etc.) have been inflating populations statistics for years! the reason is:
-the want to keep the federal aid $$ flowing (the money is dictated by official population numbers)
-the Democratic party wants to keep a majority in the house-and they will lie to keep the seats
Offically, the population of Boston is about 880,000-the Deomcratic machine claims it is over a million! I’d bet it is more like 600,000.
The machine that runs Boston will NEVER allow an honest census-they even forced the federal census to accept ‘phantom’ residents, to keep the crooks in power!
hijack;
Well, if you would have told people at the end of WWII that they should buy up all the property they could in places like Orlando, Orange County CA, The Atlanta or Dallas Suburbs…or heck, just about any township less than 20 miles from a major city;
What do you think they’d have said?
"Yes Mr. 1945, by the 80’s, Los Angeles will be the #2 city in America. Orange County will be suburbs as far as the eye can see. Yes, Orlando will actually be more than a gas station in the middle of Florida. Why yes, Bloomington MN will be completely developed with a population of close to 100k, rather than the farms you see now.
Buy land just over the next hill from whatever development you see today, because tomorrow it will be worth big money."
Back on OP, remember that all of the cities in western Russia were pretty much blown to bits in the war, and Mr. Heinlein’s visit was only 15 years after it ended. They had lost an awful lot of people, including most of the original populations of those cities, and it takes a while for rebuilding and migration to make up for those kinds of staggering losses.
Cite?