Ruscism (Russian:Рашизм, Rashizm) is a popular among the Slavs unofficial name for the political ideology and social practice of the Russian ruling regime at the beginning of the 21st century, based on the idea of seniority over the fraternal nation its special civilization mission; totalitarianism and soviet union type imperialism, utilization of Russian Orthodoxy as a moral doctrine along with geopolitical instrumentation, starting with — energy carriers. Etymology and implication The term «Ruscism» is made up of two words — the English word Russia and the international word «fascism». It is a play on words blending russism and racism. Ruscism is a variety of totalitarian, fascist’s ideology,[4] symbiosis of basic concepts of fascism and Stalinism. It is a foundation of the barbarian Russian geopolitics, oriented on occupation and annexation of other countries’ territories, often defined by the cliché of «gathering Russian lands» and supported by local collaborationism. History The term became popular in 2008 during the Russian aggression in Georgia. Another wave of this term expansion took place at the time of the Crimea annexation by the Russian Federation[5][6][7], the shooting down Boeing 777 near Donetsk on July 17, 2014 as well as at the beginning of Russian-Ukrainian war in 2014[8][9][10][11][12]. For the first time it was introduced by Alexander Herzen in the novel “My Past and Thoughts” (1868) to indicate the extremist direction in Russophilia. Boris Grushin saw the feudal village and slavery as the basis of ruscism, while his opponents called such an attitude as Russophobe. However representatives of Russian nationalism have employed this term (as the combination of “Russian imperialism” and “household nationalism” ) into the foundation of their ideology. For example, Aleksandr Ivanov-Sukharevsky announced the project of creating Holy Russia – a super power (at the head with slavo-russy, united by blood, language and history. Among numerous radical nationalistic movements of the 90s in Russia, the far-right fascist’s “Peoples National Party (Russia)”, founded in 1994 by Aleksandr Ivanov-Sukharevsky, film director by education, and Olexey Shiropayev, inspired by the Italian type of fascism, displayed itself as the defender of Russian Orthodoxy and Cossacks’ movements along with spreading the ideology called “ruscism”. This ideology represented a combination of populism, racial and anti-Semite mysticism, national ecologism, orthodoxy and nostalgia for the Tsar. The Party comprised just a few thousand members, but had historical influence behind the Rus parliament scene by means of such well known newspapers as “I am Russian”, “ forefathers’ legacy ” and “ Era of Russia”. Soon, the party experienced some legal problems for kindling inter-ethnic hostility. In the long run the newspaper was banned in 1999 and Ivanov-Sukharevsky was sentenced to several months of imprisonment though remained an important figure for quite a while in the circles close to the Union of Writers of Russia and continued its activity.[13] The major features and signs of Ruscism At the base of Ruscism, which has completely acquired the shape of official ideology, lies the negation of the force of law and allegation the rule of force, negation of neighbors’ sovereignty and self-affirmation via willfulness and violence.[4] One of the foundations is the ideology of the spiritual theory of ROC about the “Chosen people” of rus people.[14] According to the Russian historian Olexandr Skobov, ruscism represents a selective mixture of great-power ambitions, nostalgia for the soviet past and obscurantistic orthodoxy. Ruscism is also characterized by disrespect to personality, urge to trample down personality by “majority” and oppress minority. Ruscism is also characterized by disbelief in democratic procedures; for “it’s just an instrument of sophisticated manipulations” (ruscism itself gives preference to rude manipulations). Ruscism proceeds from the idea that “national spirit” and “general sum of things” are realized not through formal election mechanisms, but rather in an irrational mystic manner, via a Tribal chief, who got his position having cleared away everyone else.[4] Politologist Stanislav Belkovsky, states that ruscism is disguised as anti-fascism, however having the fascists’ image and entity.[15] The ruscism’s ideology fuses the views of the world as the field of an animal fight for survival pretending to demonstrate high spirituality, unreachable to the rest of the world in the view of ruscists.[4] At the same time this ideology represents the distillation of groveling and boorishness.[4] Palynologist Ruslan Kluchnik, remarks that the Russian elite thinks that it has the right to build its own “sovereign democracy” ignoring western standards, though considering Russian traditions of state-building. In Russia administrative resource is one of the means to keep the democratic façade; this hides the mechanism of absolute manipulation of people’s will of expression.[16] Ideology of Ruscism Ruscism claims quasi-ideology which is a contradictive blend of imperia complex, great-power chauvinism, religious traditionalism principally based on the nostalgia for the Soviet Union past. Such ideology goes against western, liberal-democratic values and institutes, specifically free elections and other public rights and freedoms. Ideology of ruscism stands on hatred and jealousy towards western democracies like Europe, the US and Canada. In the center of this ideology lies the cult of national leader, who has returned “grandeur” to Russia.[17] Palynologist Andrey Piontkovsky asserts (states) that the ideology of ruscism is in many ways similar in its principles coinciding with German fascist’s Nazism and according to speeches and policy of Rus president Putin with Hitler’s ideas.[18] In professor’s Olexandr Kostenko opinion[19], ruscism represents the ideology, “based on illusions and justification of the possibility of any kind of despotism for the sake of biasedly interpreted (misinterpreted) interest of Russian society. As for its foreign policy, ruscism manifests itself in violation the principles of international right, imposing on the world community its version of historical truth exceptionally in favor of Rus, in case of abusing its right of veto in Security Council of the UN etc. As for the internal policy, ruscism displays human rights violation in the aspect of freedom of speech, prosecution of the “Dissenters March” participants, utilization of Mass Media for disinformation own people etc.” Besides Olexandr Kostenko considers ruscism as a manifestation of sociopathy. Ruscism plays a substitutive function in terms of religion, serving the adept with a feeling of participation in the struggle of “good and evil”, completing its existence with sense, justifying the hardships and victims that it causes in reality, sparing from complex of inferiority.[20] According to Mykola Tomenko, “ruscism” is a misanthropic ideology which is not much different from fascism or Stalinism content-wise. Russia, which was initially struggled informatively and ideologically, supports any methods (including military) of destroying those who do not support the ideology of the “Russian world” anywhere in the world, and realizing (providing the implementation) this ideology by all means.[21] Professor Oleg Grinev supposes that it is essential to tell ruscism from putinism, because ruscism deals with ideological substantiation of the adventuristic policy of the current Russian dictator Putin. Moscow imperialism harbors ideological rivals under its roof (communist party ideologists with chauvinists and anti-communists) for the sake of economic and political blackmailing of the countries on the former empire territory; bolshevism can now be considered just as one of the ruscism’s varieties. Meanwhile (in its turn) the clerical alternative of ruscism is attempted to be realized by patriarch Kirill in the course of his conception about the “Rus world”. Ruscism is based on rejection of western civilization, opposed by some type of rus (euro Asian) civilization. Moscow intellectualists are unanimous with autocrat Putin, who is striving to complete tsarist’s and bolshevitsts’ ukrainocide. Currently ruscism represents the ideological foundation of putinizm. History demonstrated that ruscism primarily implies liquidation of Ukrainian heritage as a national community.[2] Ruscists The followers of the ruscist’s ideology are called “ruscists”, occasionally as “quilted jackets”.[17][22] Ruscists’ psychology is the psychology of hostility, the idea that enemies are all around, even in Russia. This psychology is associated with people who were deeply offended, by made up or real insults on behalf of the “West”. However during the period of “strong Russia” ruscists are said to be (presumably) capable of taking revenge.[17][23] The distinctive feature of ruscists’ identity is the hope for power. The important characteristic of ruscists is a dead and polemic understanding of Russian history, its conversion into the collection of iconic dates, that ruscists worship and put faith in.[17] Contemptuous, suspicious (enemies are all around, and eager to devour us) and on the whole, entirely malicious approach to this debauched world, looking at it, as if it were a potential prey (trophy), for ruscists is united with a childish naïve offence at “none likes us” attitude. Ruscists would also prefer to be loved as a Big Brother. Ruscists are spreading patriarchal principles over the interethnic relationships. They are convinced that love can be forced, and “loves comes with habit”, “beating means loving” for its done “in their favor”.[4]
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