Average rise of men: a Russian perspective

I’m sitting here, looking at these numbers and thinking – so what if our guys are only in 26th place in the world for rise? Only 176.46 cm, who cares! But what a soul – boundless! Not like those tall Dutchmen with their 182 centimeters. What can they do, besides riding a bike and being a badass over everyone?

It's interesting how these "scientists" measured at all? They probably came to us with rulers when the guys had just come out of the bath – everyone looks five centimeters shorter there! But if they measured after the third shot, who knows, everyone might have been 180!

What amuses me the most is how everyone has been sorted out. Germans, French, Swedes – all about 180 cm! And our guys lag a bit behind. No wonder! After all the sanctions and this never-ending race towards the West, I just want to sit down and not grow! Although compared to the Indians (164.95 cm), we are still nothing – real giants!

Just look at these strange correlations – wealthy countries are always at the top of the list for some reason. Coincidence? I don't think so! It's clearly some kind of conspiracy of the high against the low. Seriously, it's probably due to nutrition and medicine, but it’s hard to admit that.

And the Japanese with their 170 cm invented anime and technologies that the whole world uses. So now think about what is more important – a couple of extra centimeters or a bright mind?

And what's funny is that no one has noted that in Russia the average height has risen by almost 10 cm over the last 50 years! In the USSR, men were on average 168 cm, and now it's almost 177 cm! There you have the Soviet diet!

Oh, if I were the Minister of Health, I would organize a national program "180+". Everyone would be fed borscht with milk and sent to the horizontal bars. In a generation, we would catch up with the Dutch!