For the sake of discussion, let's say that the Russian Civil War is pursued to its logical end, and the POD is a few years after that. If the Second World War doesn't take place (or if it must take place, doesn't ravage the core of European Russia) what would Russian demographics and growth patterns look like at the end of the century? Since a lot of Russia's current demographic woes can be traced back to the massive depopulation and indiscriminate slaughters of the Eastern Front, would it be possible to avoid those late 20th century pitfalls by averting a bloody Second World War?