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[[File:Russian MT-LB in Ukraine marked "Z".jpg|thumb|330x330px|A destroyed Russian [[MT-LB]] with a [[Z (military symbol)|"Z" symbol]] during the [[2022 Russia invasion of Ukraine]]. The Z symbol is widely used by Russian armed forces and pro-war Russians worldwide, and it has been compared to the fascist [[swastika]].<ref name="Marayev-Guz_2022">{{Cite web |title=Rashism or why russians are the new Nazi |language=en-US |author-first1=Vladlen |author-last1=Marayev |author-first2=Julia |author-last2=Guz |work=VoxUkraine |date=2022-03-30 |publication-place=Kyiv, Ukraine |url=https://voxukraine.org/en/rashism-or-why-russians-are-the-new-nazi |access-date=2022-04-12 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220421140930/https://voxukraine.org/en/rashism-or-why-russians-are-the-new-nazi |archive-date=2022-04-21}}</ref><ref name="Fedorov_2022">{{Cite web |script-title=uk:Z — хвора фантазія літніх людей, які дивилися фільм про Зорро: Літера Z — це символ, який рашисти вибрали випадково, як і Гітлер свого часу солярний знак з індуїзму, розповів в ефірі Радіо НВ маркетолог Андрій Федорів. |language=uk |trans-title=Z is a sick fantasy of elderly people who watched the film about Zorro: The letter Z is a symbol that the rashists chose by chance, like Hitler in his time, a solar sign of Hinduism, said on the air of Radio NV marketing Andrii Fedorov. |author-first=Андрій [Andrey] |author-last=Федорів [Fedorov] |date=2022-03-18 |website=nv.ua |url=https://nv.ua/ukr/ukraine/events/znak-z-yak-naciska-svastika-interv-yu-z-andriyem-fedorivim-video-50226240.html |access-date=2022-04-12 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220425174450/https://nv.ua/ukr/ukraine/events/znak-z-yak-naciska-svastika-interv-yu-z-andriyem-fedorivim-video-50226240.html |archive-date=2022-04-25}}</ref><ref name="Varnitsky_2022">{{Cite web |script-title=uk:«Звичайний рашизм»: Путін відверто і послідовно наслідує Гітлера |language=uk |trans-title="Ordinary russicism": Putin openly and consistently imitates Hitler |author-first=Віктор [Victor] |author-last=Варницький [Varnitsky] |work=[[Radio Svoboda]] |department=Політика (Politics) |date=2022-03-23 |publisher= |url=https://www.radiosvoboda.org/a/putin-hitler-napad-na-ukrayinu/31765500.html |access-date=2022-04-12 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220425174452/https://www.radiosvoboda.org/a/putin-hitler-napad-na-ukrayinu/31765500.html |archive-date=2022-04-25}}</ref><ref name="Kriegel_2022">{{Cite news |script-title=uk:Zвичайний рашиZм. Як одна літера Zахопила і наZифікувала Росію |language=uk |trans-title=Ordinary ruscism. As one letter captured and nazificated Russia |author-first=Михайло [Mikhail] |author-last=Кригель [Kriegel] |date=2022-04-11 |newspaper=[[Ukrainian Pravda]] |publication-place=Kyiv, Ukraine |url=https://www.pravda.com.ua/ukr/articles/2022/04/11/7338686/index.amp |access-date=2022-04-12 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220425174459/https://www.pravda.com.ua/ukr/articles/2022/04/11/7338686/index.amp |archive-date=2022-04-25}}</ref><ref name="Becker_2022">{{Cite web |script-title=uk:Z — нацистський символ самознищення Росії |language=uk |trans-title=Z is a Nazi symbol of self-destruction |author-first=Олександр [Alexander] |author-last=Беккер [Becker] |date=2022-03-17 |website=armyinform.com.ua |url=https://armyinform.com.ua/2022/03/17/z-naczystskyj-symvol-samoznyshhennya-rosiyi/ |access-date=2022-04-12 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220415160128/https://armyinform.com.ua/2022/03/17/z-naczystskyj-symvol-samoznyshhennya-rosiyi/ |archive-date=2022-04-15}}</ref><ref name="Bukinfo_2022">{{Cite web |script-title=uk:Нова свастика: чому росіяни обрали саме літеру "Z" |language=uk |trans-title=New swastika: why the Russians chose the letter Z |date=2022-03-15 |website=bukinfo.com.ua |url=https://bukinfo.com.ua/index.php/viyna-na-shodi/nova-svastyka-chomu-rosiyany-obraly-same-literu-z |access-date=2022-04-12 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220425174520/https://bukinfo.com.ua/index.php/viyna-na-shodi/nova-svastyka-chomu-rosiyany-obraly-same-literu-z |archive-date=2022-04-25}}</ref>]] |
[[File:Russian MT-LB in Ukraine marked "Z".jpg|thumb|330x330px|A destroyed Russian [[MT-LB]] with a [[Z (military symbol)|"Z" symbol]] during the [[2022 Russia invasion of Ukraine]]. The Z symbol is widely used by Russian armed forces and pro-war Russians worldwide, and it has been compared to the fascist [[swastika]].<ref name="Marayev-Guz_2022">{{Cite web |title=Rashism or why russians are the new Nazi |language=en-US |author-first1=Vladlen |author-last1=Marayev |author-first2=Julia |author-last2=Guz |work=VoxUkraine |date=2022-03-30 |publication-place=Kyiv, Ukraine |url=https://voxukraine.org/en/rashism-or-why-russians-are-the-new-nazi |access-date=2022-04-12 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220421140930/https://voxukraine.org/en/rashism-or-why-russians-are-the-new-nazi |archive-date=2022-04-21}}</ref><ref name="Fedorov_2022">{{Cite web |script-title=uk:Z — хвора фантазія літніх людей, які дивилися фільм про Зорро: Літера Z — це символ, який рашисти вибрали випадково, як і Гітлер свого часу солярний знак з індуїзму, розповів в ефірі Радіо НВ маркетолог Андрій Федорів. |language=uk |trans-title=Z is a sick fantasy of elderly people who watched the film about Zorro: The letter Z is a symbol that the rashists chose by chance, like Hitler in his time, a solar sign of Hinduism, said on the air of Radio NV marketing Andrii Fedorov. |author-first=Андрій [Andrey] |author-last=Федорів [Fedorov] |date=2022-03-18 |website=nv.ua |url=https://nv.ua/ukr/ukraine/events/znak-z-yak-naciska-svastika-interv-yu-z-andriyem-fedorivim-video-50226240.html |access-date=2022-04-12 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220425174450/https://nv.ua/ukr/ukraine/events/znak-z-yak-naciska-svastika-interv-yu-z-andriyem-fedorivim-video-50226240.html |archive-date=2022-04-25}}</ref><ref name="Varnitsky_2022">{{Cite web |script-title=uk:«Звичайний рашизм»: Путін відверто і послідовно наслідує Гітлера |language=uk |trans-title="Ordinary russicism": Putin openly and consistently imitates Hitler |author-first=Віктор [Victor] |author-last=Варницький [Varnitsky] |work=[[Radio Svoboda]] |department=Політика (Politics) |date=2022-03-23 |publisher= |url=https://www.radiosvoboda.org/a/putin-hitler-napad-na-ukrayinu/31765500.html |access-date=2022-04-12 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220425174452/https://www.radiosvoboda.org/a/putin-hitler-napad-na-ukrayinu/31765500.html |archive-date=2022-04-25}}</ref><ref name="Kriegel_2022">{{Cite news |script-title=uk:Zвичайний рашиZм. Як одна літера Zахопила і наZифікувала Росію |language=uk |trans-title=Ordinary ruscism. As one letter captured and nazificated Russia |author-first=Михайло [Mikhail] |author-last=Кригель [Kriegel] |date=2022-04-11 |newspaper=[[Ukrainian Pravda]] |publication-place=Kyiv, Ukraine |url=https://www.pravda.com.ua/ukr/articles/2022/04/11/7338686/index.amp |access-date=2022-04-12 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220425174459/https://www.pravda.com.ua/ukr/articles/2022/04/11/7338686/index.amp |archive-date=2022-04-25}}</ref><ref name="Becker_2022">{{Cite web |script-title=uk:Z — нацистський символ самознищення Росії |language=uk |trans-title=Z is a Nazi symbol of self-destruction |author-first=Олександр [Alexander] |author-last=Беккер [Becker] |date=2022-03-17 |website=armyinform.com.ua |url=https://armyinform.com.ua/2022/03/17/z-naczystskyj-symvol-samoznyshhennya-rosiyi/ |access-date=2022-04-12 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220415160128/https://armyinform.com.ua/2022/03/17/z-naczystskyj-symvol-samoznyshhennya-rosiyi/ |archive-date=2022-04-15}}</ref><ref name="Bukinfo_2022">{{Cite web |script-title=uk:Нова свастика: чому росіяни обрали саме літеру "Z" |language=uk |trans-title=New swastika: why the Russians chose the letter Z |date=2022-03-15 |website=bukinfo.com.ua |url=https://bukinfo.com.ua/index.php/viyna-na-shodi/nova-svastyka-chomu-rosiyany-obraly-same-literu-z |access-date=2022-04-12 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220425174520/https://bukinfo.com.ua/index.php/viyna-na-shodi/nova-svastyka-chomu-rosiyany-obraly-same-literu-z |archive-date=2022-04-25}}</ref>]] |
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'''Rashism''' or '''Ruscism''' ({{lang-ru|Рашизм|Rashizm|link=yes}}, {{IPA-ru|rɐˈʂɨzm|pron}}; a [[portmanteau]] of "Russia" and "fascism";<ref name="Mishchenko_2022">{{Cite web |script-title=uk:Рашизм і фашизм: знайдіть дві відмінності |language=uk |trans-title= |author-last=Міщенко [Mishchenko] |author-first=Михайло [Mykhailo] |date=2022-03-01 |website=Український інтерес |url=https://uain.press/articles/rashizm-i-fashizm-znajdit-dvi-vidminnosti-1551222 |access-date=2022-03-11 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220303171058/https://uain.press/articles/rashizm-i-fashizm-znajdit-dvi-vidminnosti-1551222 |archive-date=2022-03-03}}</ref><ref name="Synder_2022-04-23"/> {{Lang-uk|рашизм|translit=rashyzm}}<ref name="Synder_2022-04-23">{{Cite magazine |title=The War in Ukraine Has Unleashed a New Word |author-last=Snyder |author-first=Timothy D. |author-link=Timothy D. Snyder |date=2022-04-23 |magazine=[[The New York Times Magazine]] |issn=0362-4331 |publisher=[[The New York Times Company]] |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/22/magazine/ruscism-ukraine-russia-war.html |access-date=2022-04-23 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220424204029/https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/22/magazine/ruscism-ukraine-russia-war.html |archive-date=2022-04-24 |quote=In a creative play on three different languages, Ukrainians identify an enemy: 'ruscism.'}}</ref>), also known as '''Russism''' ({{lang-ru|Русизм}}),<ref name="Regnum_2022">{{cite news |script-title=ru:"Ичкерия" - против установки памятника Ельцину в Эстонии |language=ru |trans-title= |author=<!--Staff writer(s)/no by-line.--> |date=2012-02-06 |work=[[REGNUM News Agency]] |publication-place=Moscow, Russia |url=https://regnum.ru/news/polit/1496002.html |access-date=2022-04-25 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220422194030/https://regnum.ru/news/polit/1496002.html |archive-date=2022-04-22}}</ref> |
'''Rashism''' or '''Ruscism''' ({{lang-ru|Рашизм|Rashizm|link=yes}}, {{IPA-ru|rɐˈʂɨzm|pron}}; a [[portmanteau]] of "Russia" and "fascism";<ref name="Mishchenko_2022">{{Cite web |script-title=uk:Рашизм і фашизм: знайдіть дві відмінності |language=uk |trans-title= |author-last=Міщенко [Mishchenko] |author-first=Михайло [Mykhailo] |date=2022-03-01 |website=Український інтерес |url=https://uain.press/articles/rashizm-i-fashizm-znajdit-dvi-vidminnosti-1551222 |access-date=2022-03-11 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220303171058/https://uain.press/articles/rashizm-i-fashizm-znajdit-dvi-vidminnosti-1551222 |archive-date=2022-03-03}}</ref><ref name="Synder_2022-04-23"/> {{Lang-uk|рашизм|translit=rashyzm}}<ref name="Synder_2022-04-23">{{Cite magazine |title=The War in Ukraine Has Unleashed a New Word |author-last=Snyder |author-first=Timothy D. |author-link=Timothy D. Snyder |date=2022-04-23 |magazine=[[The New York Times Magazine]] |issn=0362-4331 |publisher=[[The New York Times Company]] |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/22/magazine/ruscism-ukraine-russia-war.html |access-date=2022-04-23 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220424204029/https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/22/magazine/ruscism-ukraine-russia-war.html |archive-date=2022-04-24 |quote=In a creative play on three different languages, Ukrainians identify an enemy: 'ruscism.'}}</ref>), also known as '''Russism''' ({{lang-ru|Русизм}}),<ref name="Regnum_2022">{{cite news |script-title=ru:"Ичкерия" - против установки памятника Ельцину в Эстонии |language=ru |trans-title= |author=<!--Staff writer(s)/no by-line.--> |date=2012-02-06 |work=[[REGNUM News Agency]] |publication-place=Moscow, Russia |url=https://regnum.ru/news/polit/1496002.html |access-date=2022-04-25 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220422194030/https://regnum.ru/news/polit/1496002.html |archive-date=2022-04-22}}</ref> a Ukrainian term used for alleging [[Russia]] to have been transformed into a [[fascist]] country and is also used for referring to the ideology of Russian military expansionism.<ref>{{cite book | last=Samoilenko | first=S.A. | last2=Icks | first2=M. | last3=Keohane | first3=J. | last4=Shiraev | first4=E. | title=Routledge Handbook of Character Assassination and Reputation Management | publisher=Taylor & Francis | series=Routledge International Handbooks | year=2019 | isbn=978-1-351-36832-2 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PIrCDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT367 | access-date=2022-04-28 | page=367|quote=Ukrainian press has been presenting .... the term Rashism, which conflates Russia and fascism}}</ref><ref name="Gaufman 2016">{{cite book | last=Gaufman | first=E. | title=Security Threats and Public Perception: Digital Russia and the Ukraine Crisis | publisher=Springer International Publishing | series=New Security Challenges | year=2016 | isbn=978-3-319-43201-4 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WaZlDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA107 | access-date=2022-04-28 | page=107|quote=Pro-Ukrainian commentators have also used the word 'Rashism'}}</ref><ref name="Marayev-Guz_2022"/><ref name="Mohammed-Challoob_2021">{{Cite journal |script-title=ru:Некоторые Инновационные словообразовательные процессы в популярных интернет-текстах в русском и арабском языках |language=ru |trans-title=Some innovative word-formation processes in popular Internet texts in Russian and Arabic |author-last1=Mohammed |author-first1=Zahraa Jasim |author-last2=Challoob |author-first2=Mahmood Ghazi |date=2021 |journal=Journal of the College of Languages |issue=43 |pages=186–207 |url=https://www.iasj.net/iasj/article/217613 |access-date=2022-04-22 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220422084123/https://www.iasj.net/iasj/article/217613 |archive-date=2022-04-22}}</ref> That transformation was described as based on the ideas of the "special [[civilizing mission|civilizational mission]]" of the [[Russians]], such as [[Moscow, third Rome|Moscow as the third Rome]] and [[expansionism]].<ref name="Gregor_1998">{{Cite journal |title=Fascism and the New Russian Nationalism |author-last=Gregor |author-first=A. James |author-link=A. James Gregor |date=1998 |journal=Communist and Post-Communist Studies |volume=31 |issue=1 |pages=1–15 |doi=10.1016/S0967-067X(97)00025-1 |jstor=48609343 |issn=0967-067X}}</ref><ref name="Motyl_2015">{{Cite web |title=Is Putin's Russia Fascist? |date=2015-04-23 |author-last=Motyl |author-first=Alexander John |author-link=Alexander John Motyl |website=[[Atlantic Council]] |language=en-US |url=https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/is-putin-s-russia-fascist/ |access-date=2022-02-26 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220422085121/https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/is-putin-s-russia-fascist/ |archive-date=2022-04-22}}</ref><ref name="Stanley_2022">{{Cite news |title=The antisemitism animating Putin's claim to 'denazify' Ukraine |author-first=Jason |author-last=Stanley |author-link=Jason Stanley |date=2022-02-26 |newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |department=Ukraine |publisher=[[Guardian News & Media Limited]] |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/25/vladimir-putin-ukraine-attack-antisemitism-denazify |access-date=2022-02-26 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220417105216/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/25/vladimir-putin-ukraine-attack-antisemitism-denazify |archive-date=2022-04-17}}</ref> This is also a claim widely used to identify supporters of Russian military aggression.<ref name="ukrinform_2022">{{Cite web |script-title=uk:Ідеологія рашизму має бути засуджена світом, як нацизм і фашизм – історик |language=uk |trans-title= |date=2022-03-08 |website=www.ukrinform.ua |url=https://www.ukrinform.ua/rubric-society/3424149-ideologia-rasizmu-mae-buti-zasudzena-svitom-ak-nacizm-i-fasizm-istorik.html |access-date=2022-03-11 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220416070216/https://www.ukrinform.ua/rubric-society/3424149-ideologia-rasizmu-mae-buti-zasudzena-svitom-ak-nacizm-i-fasizm-istorik.html |archive-date=2022-04-16}}</ref> |
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== History of the term == |
== History of the term == |
Revision as of 08:32, 28 April 2022
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Rashism or Ruscism (Russian: Рашизм, romanized: Rashizm, pronounced [rɐˈʂɨzm]; a portmanteau of "Russia" and "fascism";[7][8] Ukrainian: рашизм, romanized: rashyzm[8]), also known as Russism (Russian: Русизм),[9] a Ukrainian term used for alleging Russia to have been transformed into a fascist country and is also used for referring to the ideology of Russian military expansionism.[10][11][1][12] That transformation was described as based on the ideas of the "special civilizational mission" of the Russians, such as Moscow as the third Rome and expansionism.[13][14][15] This is also a claim widely used to identify supporters of Russian military aggression.[16]
History of the term
Dzhokhar Dudayev
The term was popularized, described and extensively used in 1995 as 'русизм' (Russism or Ruscism) by the President of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria Dzhokhar Dudayev,[17][18][19], who saw the military action by Russia in Chechnya as a manifestation of the rising far-right ideology. According to Dudayev, 'русизм' "is a variety of hate ideology which is based on Great Russian chauvinism, spiritlessness and immorality. It differs from other forms of fascism, racism, and nationalism by a more extreme cruelty, both to man and to nature. It is based on the destruction of everything and everyone, the tactics of scorched earth."[20]
Russia under Putin
Timothy D. Snyder believes that the ideology of Putin and his regime was influenced by philosopher Ivan Ilyin.[21][22][23][24] Vladislav L. Inozemtsev, Russian academician, considers that Russia is an early-stage fascist state, thus claiming the current Russian political regime as fascist.[25] Tomasz Kamusella, Polish scholar researching nationalism and ethnicity, and Allister Heath, journalist at The Daily Telegraph, describe the current authoritarian Russian political regime as Putin's fascism.[26][27] Maria Snegovaya believes that Russia as led by Putin is a fascist regime.[14][28]
The term became more common in informal circles in 2008, during the Russo-Georgian War.[29][30] The term 'рашизм' (English: Ruscism or Rashism[citation needed]) became more common in the mass media after the annexation of Ukrainian peninsula Crimea by the Russian Federation,[31] the downing of a Boeing 777 near Donetsk on 17 July 2014, and the start of the Russo-Ukrainian War in 2014.[32][33]
2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
The terms rashism and rashist are in common usage among military and political elites of Ukraine, as well as by journalists, influencers, bloggers, et al.[34][35][36] For example, Oleksiy Danilov, Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council, advocates the use of the word in the meaning of Putin's fascism to describe Russia's aggression against Ukraine. He also stated that rashism is much worse than fascism.[37]
"Today, I would like to appeal to all journalists to use the word rashism, because this is a new phenomenon in world history that Mr. Putin has made with his country - modern rashists who are not much different from fascists. I will explain why: because before there was no such opportunity to destroy cities with so many air bombs, such equipment, there was no such force. Now absolutely other capacities and they use them as inhuman." — Oleksiy Danilov.[38]
On 23 April 2022, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated that "what Russia is doing is not nazism but rashism, this new concept will be in history books":[39]
"This country will have a word in our history textbooks that no one has invented, which everyone is repeating in Ukraine and in Europe - 'Ruscism'. It's not just random that everyone is saying that this is Ruscism. The word is new, but the actions are the same as they were 80 years ago in Europe. Because for all of these 80 years, if you analyse our continent, there has been no barbarism like this. So Ruscism is a concept that will go into the history books, it will be in Wikipedia, it will be [studied] in classes. And small children around the world will stand up and answer their teachers when they ask when Ruscism began, in what land, and who won the fight for freedom against this terrible concept." — Volodymyr Zelenskyy.[39][40]
On 24 April 2022, Timothy Snyder published an artilce in New York Times Magazine where he described the history, premises and linguistic pecularities of the term "Ruscism" (Ukrainian: Рашизм).[8] According to Snyder, the term "is a useful conceptualization of Putin's worldview", writing that "we have tended to overlook the central example of fascism’s revival, which is the Putin regime in the Russian Federation".[8] On the wider regime, Snyder writes that "[p]rominent Russian fascists are given access to mass media during wars, including this one. Members of the Russian elite, above all Putin himself, rely increasingly on fascist concepts", and states that "Putin’s very justification of the war in Ukraine [...] represents a Christian form of fascism."[8]
Proponents
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In 1997, Russian fascist[41][42] Aleksandr Dugin in his book The Foundations of Geopolitics: The Geopolitical Future of Russia, which had a significant impact on Russia's military, police and foreign policy elites, argued that Ukraine should be annexed by Russia because "Ukraine as a state has no geopolitical meaning, no particular cultural import or universal significance, no geographic uniqueness, no ethnic exclusiveness, its certain territorial ambitions represents an enormous danger for all of Eurasia and, without resolving the Ukrainian problem, it is in general senseless to speak about continental politics. Ukraine should not be allowed to remain independent, unless it is cordon sanitaire, which would be inadmissible".[43] The book may have been influential in Vladimir Putin's foreign policy, which eventually led to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.[44]
In 2017, Yulia Strebkova (Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute) indicated that Rashism in combination with Ukrainophobia constitutes the ethno-national vector of the more broad Russian neo-imperial ideological doctrine of "Russian world".[45]
In 2018, Borys Demyanenko (Pereyaslav National University) in his paper "Ruscism as a quasi-ideology of the Post-Soviet imperial revenge" defined "ruscism" as a misanthropic ideology and an eclectic mixture of imperial neocolonialism, great-power chauvinism, nostalgia for the Soviet past, and religious traditionalism. Demyanenko considers that in internal domestic policy, Ruscism manifests itself in a violation of human rights alongside with a freedom of thought, persecution of dissidents, propaganda, ignoring of democratic procedures. While in foreign policy, Ruscism demonstrates itself in a violation of international law, imposing its own version of historical truth, the justification of occupation and annexation of the territories of other states.[46]
During the large-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, when the victims of the massacres in Kyiv Oblast became known,[47][48] the website of the Russian state news agency RIA Novosti published an article "What Russia should do with Ukraine" by Russian political operative Timofey Sergeitsev, which was perceived to justify a Ukrainian genocide. It calls for repression, de-Ukrainization, de-Europeanization, and ethnocide of the Ukrainian people.[49][50][51][52][53][54]
According to Oxford expert on Russian affairs Samuel Ramani, the article "represents mainstream Kremlin thinking".[55] According to Euractiv, Sergeitsev is "one of the ideologists of modern Russian fascism".[56] The head of the Latvian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Edgars Rinkēvičs called the article "ordinary fascism".[57]
In March 2022, Yale historian Odd Arne Westad said that Putin's words about Ukraine resembled, which Harvard journalist James F. Smith summarized, "some of the colonial racial arguments of imperial powers of the past, ideas from the late 19th and early 20th century."[58]
In April 2022, Larysa Yakubova (Institute of History of Ukraine) in her article: "The Anatomy of Ruscism" stated that Russia has never reflected the tragedies of totalitarianism and did not decommunize its Soviet totalitarian heritage (unlike Ukraine). That was the major reason for the formation and a rapid development of Ruscism in modern Russia both among political and intellectual/cultural elites. She also noted that the Ruscism, in a form of a threat to the world order and peace, will remain until there will be a global condemnation of Soviet communist ideology and its heir Ruscism.[59]
Features
Political scientist Stanislav Belkovsky argues that Rashism is disguised as anti-fascism, but has a fascist face and essence.[60] Political scientist Ruslan Kliuchnyk notes that the Russian elite considers itself entitled to build its own "sovereign democracy" without reference to Western standards, but taking into account Russia's traditions of state-building. Administrative resources in Russia are one of the means of preserving the democratic facade, which hides the mechanism of absolute manipulation of the will of citizens.[61]
Russian political scientist Andrey Piontkovsky argues that the ideology of Rashism is in many ways similar to Nazism, with the speeches of President Vladimir Putin reflecting similar ideas to those of Adolf Hitler.[62][63]
According to Alexander J. Motyl, an American historian and political scientist, Russian fascism has the following characteristics:[64]
- An undemocratic political system, different from both traditional authoritarianism and totalitarianism;
- Statism and hypernationalism;
- A hypermasculine cult of the supreme leader (emphasis on his courage, militancy and physical prowess);
- General popular support for the regime and its leader.
According to Professor Oleksandr Kostenko, Rashism is an ideology that is "based on illusions and justifies the admissibility of any arbitrariness for the sake of misinterpreted interests of Russian society. In foreign policy, rashism manifests itself, in particular, in violation of the principles of international law, imposing its version of historical truth on the world solely in favor of Russia, abusing the right of veto in the UN Security Council, and so on. In domestic politics, rashism is a violation of human rights to freedom of thought, persecution of members of the "dissent movement", the use of the media to misinform their people, and so on." Oleksandr Kostenko also considers Rashism a manifestation of sociopathy.[65]
Criticism of the term
Russian television presenter Tina Kandelaki, who supported Russia's war against Ukraine,[66][67] criticized Wikipedia's use of the term "rashism" on her Telegram channel, accusing Wikipedia of "digital fascism" targeting Russian people and calling Russians to stop using it.[68]
See also
- Anti-Ukrainian sentiment
- Chekism
- Eurasianism
- Nashism
- Political groups under Vladimir Putin's presidency
- Propaganda in the Russian Federation
- Putinism
- Putler
- Russian Fascist Party
- Russian imperialism
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- Motyl, Alexander John (2016-03-01) [2016-01-23]. "Putin's Russia as a fascist political system". Communist and Post-Communist Studies. 49 (1): 25–36. doi:10.1016/j.postcomstud.2016.01.002. ISSN 0967-067X. Archived from the original on 2022-04-22. Retrieved 2022-04-22.