The fine for 2nd child was absolutely there but no need to have existential crisis because of that. In democratic India, Indira gandhi wanted to do vasectomy for all males who had 2 children in 1970s only. At that time officials and people had little education and they did vasectomy of unmarried people. It was a lot. We, in the 3rd world were told by white Western libs that our problem is that we have huge birth rate and huge unemployment. Little these west. Libs cared about long time effects on the world for which they were suggesting.
https://qz.com/india/1414774/the-legacy-of-indias-quest-to-sterilise-millions-of-men
https://www.asianstudies.org/publications/eaa/archives/india-the-emergency-and-the-politics-of-mass-sterilization/
I remember as a non-political 14yo just learning about Gandhi (the other one) and when we had to do a report on a historical figure, I wanted to pick him. My teacher asked me if I meant Indira, and because I didn't know about Indira and though it might have been how he was named in English, I said yeah sure Indira.
At first I was like oh no, this is not the right one, but then as I continued it really opened my eyes to something else entirely. IIRC they also used to check for circumcisions at checkpoints?
that I don't know or never heard of . But she did nationalization of India's banks , industries , natural resources and liberated Bangladesh from Pakistani genocidal mongers . she also did friendship with USSR . It was just western white libs had a very racist image on the 3rd world that we breed like rabbits or might be because our infant mortality rate came down after independence and establishing rural heath care system.
I'm actually interested in how the one child policy was enforced. If any comrades have some reading material about this, I would be grateful!
There are pros and cons of such things but western racist warmongers won't get tired by looking it a vile way instead of an objective way.
Oh no, your parents broke the law and only had to pay a fine, big fucking whoop.
Personally, I've always resented my parent for forcing me to be born without my consent. The day of my birth, I was so mad at them, I didn't talk to them for 2 entire years.
I wish the CPC had been there to protect me from forced birth.
I'm not a huge fan of the OCP personally (and it's been repealed so I guess they're not a huge fan either now) but I need to give a piece of context that I never see talked about in the West: Ethnic minorities in China are totally exempted from it from day one. This includes Uyghurs and Tibetans. It's pretty much only for Han people which is the majority in China. Make of that how you want but if they created it as an ethnic cleansing tool like so many Westerns claim, they were really really bad at ethnic cleansing.
