{"id":32523,"date":"2023-07-24T10:21:12","date_gmt":"2023-07-24T07:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/?p=32523"},"modified":"2023-11-20T14:10:04","modified_gmt":"2023-11-20T11:10:04","slug":"plus-the-nazification-of-the-whole-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/en\/articles\/columns\/plus-the-nazification-of-the-whole-country\/","title":{"rendered":"Plus the Nazification of the whole country"},"content":{"rendered":"

The declared goals of Russia\u2019s military invasion of Ukraine changed \u201cin accordance with the current situation\u201d, but at the same time they were of a \u201cfundamental nature,\u201d Vladimir Putin announced to the \u201cvoenkory\u201d (military correspondents) astonished by this statement. From the set of words\/symbols that Russian propaganda juggles to explain the war, they pull out either \u201ccrossing the red lines\u201d, or \u201cfighting NATO\u201d, or \u201cdefending the Russian language\u201d, or \u2013 quite unexpectedly for the patriotic public \u2013 the fight against LGBT+ people. But now no one is surprised by the wavering of the \u201cparty position\u201d and the windings of propaganda: recently Putin even announced that, it turns out, Wagner PMC never existed.<\/p>\n

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Freeze frame from the report of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Media about a police raid to search for violators of migration laws<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The first of the two original goals of the invasion, the \u201cdemilitarization\u201d of Ukraine, is sometimes mentioned by Russian propaganda, even against the backdrop of negotiations for Ukraine\u2019s accession to NATO. Recently, Dmitry Peskov announced that Russia\u2019s success, it turns out, lies in the fact that Ukraine is fighting not with its own, but with someone else\u2019s weapons! But the second goal, \u201cdenazification\u201d, was almost immediately blurred in the Russian media. On the one hand, some Russians not only could not understand what it means. but even pronounced this word with difficulty<\/a>. On the other hand, the propaganda obviously did not expect that this very word usage would cause the development of anti-imperial, anti-colonial discourse and reflection on the topic of xenophobia and racism deeply rooted in Russian society. \u201cNow the Kremlin, having announced the denazification of Ukraine, has given us the opportunity to finally publicly declare that this problem [racism] exists in Russia, and it is very serious,\u201d said<\/a> Alexandra Garmazhapova, head of the Free Buryatia Foundation.<\/p>\n

Human rights activists have been talking about the seriousness of the problems of racism and discrimination in Russia over the past decades, but it is only now becoming clear to many how closely propaganda of national greatness, \u201ctraditional values\u201d and migrantophobia are connected with a real war, with the death of innocent people, the intensification of xenophobic sentiments, including anti-Ukrainian ones. After all, the real risk of dying for the \u201cRussian world\u201d arose before people who were humiliated and discriminated against because they did not belong to this world. And at the same time, it was they, \u201cnon-Russians\u201d, who were charged a special accountability for participating in aggression (I remember that even the Pope attributed \u201cspecial cruelty\u201d to the Buryats and Chechens). It was to them that Putin\u2019s pathetic statement \u201cI am a Lak, I am a Dagestani\u2026\u201d was addressed in the perverted \u201cI\/We\u201d genre, more like a criminal custom to tie up accomplices with blood.<\/p>\n

The accomplices, meanwhile, sorting out among themselves, also began to play the national card: Yevgeny Prigozhin accused Sergei Shoigu and Valery Gerasimov of the \u201cgenocide of the Russian people\u201d, emphasizing that for the Russian Minister of Defense, this genocide was \u201con a national basis\u201d, implying, one must think, that the malignity is due to Shoigu\u2019s Tuvan origin. But even Prigozhin himself was suddenly attacked \u201cfor his nation\u201d<\/a>: they say, he is a non-Russian, and more than that \u2013 a Jew.<\/p>\n

In terms of the speed of playing the \u201cnation\u201d card, the high-ranking war criminals are no different from any other strata of Russian society, which is not surprising given the Russian authorities\u2019 denial of the problem of racism. Conflicts between members of different ethnic groups quickly develop into national ones. This often happens<\/a> in places where Roma\/Gypsies are densely populated. Separate cases thundered throughout the country: for example, a mass brawl in the village of Chemodanovka in the Penza region, which turned into a pogrom and the flight of more than a thousand Roma, who were declared guilty. But since the systemic problems of the Roma settlements and their inhabitants are not being resolved, and the degree of \u201cnazification\u201d in the country is high, new incidents occur \u2013 like the recent one near Novosibirsk, where, fortunately, there were no casualties. The journalist quotes<\/a> the words of a rural store saleswoman who witnessed a mass brawl: \u201cGypsies did not initially show aggression, they were threatened. People have a lot of hatred \u2013 on national ground! And this is scary in the light of the current situation in the country, the incitement of these interethnic conflicts is completely unnecessary for anyone.\u201d From thy mouth to God\u2019s ears!<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, we can expect an escalation of violence in Russian society, including on the basis of xenophobia: the level of aggression in the country was high even before the war, and even more so now. It is well known that mentally unstable demobilized soldiers bring with them the habit of violence from the war, to say nothing of the released Wagner criminals\u2026<\/p>\n

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Olga Abramenko \u2013 expert of the <\/strong>Anti-Discrimination Center Memorial<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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