Lyudmila AFANASIEVA, Natalia HLEBOVA, Lyudmila GLYNS’KA, Celeste ALBARDEIRO
AFANASIEVA L., HLEBOVA N., GLYNS’KA L., ALBARDEIRO C. (2023), RASHISTIC IDEOLOGY IN THE CONTEXT OF THE RUSSIAN-UKRAINIAN WAR.
PHILOSOPHY, ECONOMICS AND LAW REVIEW. Volume 3, no. 2, 33-39
DOI: 10.31733/2786-491X-2023-2-33-39
Abstract. The article attempts to provide a socio-cultural understanding of the ideology of racism in the context of the russian-Ukrainian war. The very concept of “racism” has appeared in Ukraine quite recently and is defined, according to Wikipedia, as an ideology. It was found that the core of this ideology was the concept of the “russian world”, which consists in the destruction of other civilizations with a highly developed culture based on superiority over others. In other words, the “russian world” is an ideology of destroying civilizations superior to the russian one and imposing its own barbarism, where there is no place for humanity, which is reflected in the destructive war of all those who oppose russian totalitarianism. It is established that this russian imperial ideology has been formed over the centuries and is based on such traits of mentality as: arrogance, domination, psychological inclination to permissiveness and robbery, servile submission to authority in various forms, abnormal patience, religious fanaticism, etc.
It was found out that the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Humanitarian and Information Policy proposed to introduce the term “rashism” to define the ideology built in russia, which is reflected in the military actions of the russian army in Ukraine and the attitude of russian society to this war. The Committee’s appeal is addressed to Ukrainian scholars, journalists, political scientists, and the entire civil society to popularize and recognize the term “racism” at the national and international levels with further definition and inclusion of this term in the official terminology dictionaries of the Ukrainian language. It is determined that racism is a type of political regime, as well as a radical authoritarian anti-human ideology, characterized by a strong cult of personality, militarism, totalitarianism, designed to unite lands through hybrid wars or complete destruction.
It is the embodiment of racist, xenophobic, chauvinistic, populist ideology, which, despite its obvious anti-democratic nature, is supported by the majority of the russian population and is implemented in russia’s aggressive and criminal foreign policy. The concept of “rashism” has a lot in common with totalitarianism as a political regime aimed at achieving complete state control over all spheres of public and private life. This is the main concept that underlies racism as a phenomenon.
Keywords: ideology, rashism, war, “russian world”.
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