The resolution of the Ukrainian parliament should help develop a unified approach of international institutions to the definition of Russia’s policy.
The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine at the legislative level recognized the political regime in Russia as “rashism” and condemned it. The corresponding draft resolution No. 9101 was supported by 281 people’s representatives in a meeting on Tuesday. The statement is addressed to the United Nations, European Parliament, Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, NATO Parliamentary Assembly, foreign governments and parliaments with a call to support the condemnation of ideology, policy and practice. of racism.
What does the decision say?
The representatives of the Verkhovna Rada collected in the text of the document the definitions and characteristics of the current government of Russia, given, trying to scientifically explain this phenomenon, both Ukrainian and Western historians, publicists and culturologists, and reduced these in conclusion. that racism modern Russian fascism.
The initiators of the resolution believe that “it will make it possible to identify the forms of aggression and encourage the condemnation of the states of the world on the policy of the Russian Federation, which leads to the commission of war crimes and genocide of Ukrainians.”
Also, the statement should help develop a unified approach of international institutions to the definition of Russia’s policy.
“The brutal, unprovoked war of the Russian Federation against Ukraine has revealed to the whole world the true essence of Vladimir Putin’s political regime, as a neo-imperial, totalitarian dictatorship that inherits the worst practices of the past and contains the idea of fascism. and national socialism in the modern version of Russian fascism (racism),” the statement said in an explanatory note to the decision.
The essence of war
Ukrainian society has long needed to define what it is fighting for the very existence of Ukraine and its people.
Words like “Russian army” or “Putin” reflect the essence of this war which is not quite right. These terms, for example, do not take into account the same ROC that blesses an aggressive war, or ignore the millions of Russians who support the war from their sofas.
In April last year, Vladimir Zelensky said at a press conference that in the future “racism as an ideology of modern Russia will take its place in the history books.” At the same time, many articles on racism were published by the famous American historian Timothy Snyder.
For him, this word is the most appropriate to fully describe, in the spirit of an academic discussion, the ideology that prevails in Russia, with the characteristic features of fascism – the cult of personality, the cult of death, the mythologizing of the past, comprehensive censorship and total war as a means to achieve their goals.
Therefore, the adoption by the Verkhovna Rada of the resolution on racism only revealed the fact of the use of this term, which is now developed both in Ukraine and – partially – in the international scientific discourse.
global goals
The goal of Ukrainian legislators is a situation where the word “rashism” will firmly and reliably enter political, journalistic and cultural usage in different languages of the world to once again show people that Russia is really active uses the practices of the fascist regime, criticizing the words.
At the Nuremberg Tribunal, it was not Germany and Germans that were condemned, but the ideology of Nazism and its leaders. And here it is: the hypothetical future judgment may not be on Russia as such, but on the ideology of racism and its leaders and heralds.
Source: korrespondent
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