# USSR High Water Mark
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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [November 28, 2022, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ussr-high-water-mark/975700 "2022-11-28T18:21:26Z")
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### Author:  [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)
#### Post date: [November 29, 2022, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ussr-high-water-mark/975700/21 "2022-11-29T19:13:28Z")
And Putin just revived one of them - the **Mother Heroine** award.
> **[Putin revives Soviet ‘Mother Heroine’ award for women who have 10 children](https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/08/17/russia-ukraine-putin-mother-heroine-award-children/)**
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> Nearly eight decades after Stalin launched the award, Moscow is again worried about population decline, especially amid heavy losses in Ukraine.
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### Author:  [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)
#### Post date: [November 29, 2022, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ussr-high-water-mark/975700/22 "2022-11-29T19:36:16Z")
I agree. Pretty much everything after the Cuban Missile Crisis was Soviet decline to one degree or another. They pulled missiles out of Cuba, Khrushchev gets deposed in 1964, they weren’t able to really subdue the Czechs during the Prague Spring in 1968, got involved in Afghanistan, etc…
In fact, the 1964-1985 period of Brezhnev’s, Andropov’s & Chernenko’s tenures as General Secretary was referred to as the “Age of Stagnation” by Mikhail Gorbachev.
And the six years after 1985 were tumultuous to say the least, with the Berlin Wall failing, German reunification becoming a thing, and the eventual dissolution of the Soviet Union.
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