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The indignation of the people.
Vasya Lozhkin reveals the topic of Russophobia
, English
russophobia
is a meme of the cultural crowd of this country.
It is used, in the best traditions, against any opinion different from the views of the above-mentioned crowd. It is formed from the words “Russian” and “phobia” (Greek “phobos”
- fear), which seems to tell us that anyone who disagrees with the creeds is afraid (and more often, hates) the entire people/country that they supposedly represent .
As a word, R.-phobia is a special case of “something”-phobia - one of the diagnoses-arguments in the Special Olympics: along, for example, with homophobia, ukrophobia or agencysmithism (more precisely, Judeophobia).
[edit] Actually
On the part of the culturalists, it is customary to attribute the subject to bearers of a wide variety of views, the difference between which the ascribers are not able to understand due to the narrowness of their own thinking or unwillingness to understand the diversity of these same views. This diversity is mainly represented by “Russian haters”, “Russian skeptics” and sausage emigrants.
Over the hill, in fact, many peoples are very skeptical of each other in general.
- That is: you can meet an Englishman or a Frenchman who does not like Russian gopniks, hardbass squatters suka blyatting around, less likely
than a Frenchman who, for example, considers the Germans to be ill-mannered cabbage-eating farts or the English as island cockroaches.
As you might guess, only border peoples or peoples who often see each other on TV really dislike each other very much: so it is not surprising that Poles dislike Germans much more than Russians, and all over the world, despite distances , many people do not like Americans and all kinds of Afghan-Pakistani Pashtuns.
[edit] Habitats of Russophobia
The degree of dislike for Russians is enormous in the evil dwarf countries of the Baltic states and in general in some poor states of the former social bloc, especially in starving Romania, but these simply found in Russophobia a convenient way to explain their shitty life, as some of us explain the fact that they live in shitty shit, not because they don’t know how to do shit and don’t even want to be able to do it, but because of the dominance of Jews or Caucasians.
In many countries, there is a very positive attitude towards Russians, for example, Billy from the USA or Jin-Hui from China will be more likely to welcome you as a Russian than not (which in itself does not negate the fact of the existence of the subject - on the part of rednecks at the level of “migrants, go home , finally everything")
Russophobia flourishes most, oddly enough, among the Russians themselves (which is not surprising - after all, Russians live closest to Russians), but here, as always: “it’s not me who’s in the shit, it’s the shit all around” and “we’re not like that, life is like that.”
About the prevalence of phobia
It is very difficult to assess the prevalence of this pathology. Currently, it affects residents of Ukraine, Moldova, the Baltic countries, Georgia and many European countries, as well as the USA .
However, we can definitely say that in the CIS countries this is a fairly widespread problem (especially in Ukraine). But in the countries of Western Europe and the USA, this is very rare.
Residents of Western countries are rationally afraid of Russia and Russians, but there are reasons for this. Russia has the second-largest nuclear potential in the world, a huge army, and often behaves aggressively towards its neighbors. These are rational concerns . Irrational fears are not very common in Western countries.
There are no statistics on this disease. Residents of Ukraine, where there is now an epidemic of Russophobia, do not recognize themselves as sick at all. It is not possible to estimate the exact number of cases.
Everyday Russophobia and how to deal with it:
[edit]Who is who
Russian-hatred
is a special case of hatred of the human race; in this case - on a national basis. In addition to the great Fuhrer of the German nation or Khokhlobander, a famous Russian-hater was, for example, the American General Patton. Here is his statement about the Russians:
| « | We are unable to understand the Russians, any more than we can understand the Chinese or the Japanese, and, having had a wealth of experience with them, I must say that I have no particular desire to understand them, except for understanding the amount of lead and iron required to exterminate them . In addition to other Asian aspects of their character, Russians have no respect for human life - they are sons of bitches, barbarians and chronic alcoholics... | » |
For the sake of objectivity, Patton was also an anti-Semite: in his words, YERZH was “lower than animals.” So it goes. And Patton also died such an absurd death that their “Cadillac” had to be condemned: when the Cadillac 75 slightly tilted with a truck, Patton hit his head on the glass in the cabin. About the glass of salon interior design, Karl!.
Russoskepticism
— this is a critical attitude towards the peculiarities of the Russian mentality, way of life, and simply the situation in the country. By the way, Russoskepticism often slips into (or even runs like a red thread through) the works of great Russian writers, for example: Gogol (“Dead Souls”), Saltykov-Shchedrin (“The History of a City”) and many others. Lenin and Stalin can also suddenly be called Russo-skeptics: they did not trust the people under their control, but hoped to set them on the right path. In terms of the total number and activity on the Internet, Russo-skeptics will give the socialist people a serious head start; in fact, their point of view is now generally accepted, although not always adequate to the situation.
As for the sausage emigrants
, then, as a rule, they do not feel hatred, much less fear, towards Russia. Not having received maternal love from the Motherland in their time, they simply reciprocated it.
Causes of Russophobia
Russophobia is not something new. For many centuries, persons from other countries have experienced some hostility towards the great state and all its inhabitants. Many scientists refer to chronicles from the 15th-16th centuries, when foreigners began to visit the Russian country to look at it and study it. Many were shocked by what they saw, according to the same letters, so the reason for Russophobia is called the attitude that foreigners “brought” with them back to their homeland.
Historians usually try to find a more obvious reason for Russophobia and highlight the most important one. The Russian state has been one of the big ones for a long time. Other empires collapsed without existing for several decades, but Russia was a large state and remains so.
Former emperors and kings visited this country and were simply jealous of the scale that Russia occupied. Today, the Russian state is much smaller in territory than in the old days. And all this was in charge of one king, which naturally aroused the envy of other kings and emperors.
Other foreigners who were able to visit the Russian country simply saw something that did not exist in their countries. Naturally, other peoples live differently from their relatives. If someone had an unpleasant feeling from traveling abroad, then this feeling spread to other people of their nationality.
If kings and emperors of other countries were jealous of the greatness of the Russian state, they could naturally spread their negative attitude to their subjects. There were many wars between other states and the Russian people just to destroy a large country and conquer its lands. However, Russia survived, which causes even more hatred among its enemies.
By and large, experiencing a negative attitude towards the Russian people has become something normal for other countries. Now Russians are the main target of negativity. This state continues to remain one of the largest, most powerful and valuable. That is why hatred of Russia does not subside, since this is necessary, first of all, for those leaders who want to take possession of its lands and resources.
Historians refer to numerous situations that occurred on Russian territory with foreign guests. In all centuries, there have been individuals who compromised Russians through the oppression of foreigners on the territory of the state. All this was done only in order to further strengthen and incite new hatred among people of other nations.
The Russian state is being fought at all levels. Leaders of other countries are trying to suppress its culture, destroy the integrity of its borders, influence its policies and make it weak. This is why Russophobia flourishes in foreign countries, because it helps to gain new Russophobic adherents.
The origins of Russophobia can be taken from the actions taken by Russian sovereigns. They not only developed and made the country strong, but also tried to expand its borders and influence other powers. Naturally, no state will tolerate competition. That is why Russophobia has existed for many centuries and is passed on to a new generation almost with mother’s milk.
Also, hatred of the Russian people is manifested for the reason that this state is considered undeveloped and barbaric. It is here that crime, drug addiction and prostitution flourish - something that other powers are struggling with. And since the Russian people are quite freedom-loving and willful, they are still in the lead in many negative reports on the lists than other countries.
Various events that were associated with the actions of the Russian people are put as the main indicators of who should be hated and feared. Moreover, many situations are either absurd or provoked with the aim of further fueling the fire of Russophobia. That is why one should perceive hatred of Russians as a certain ideology that was invented specifically in order to destroy a great power with the help of ordinary citizens.
[edit] Subject in the Special Olympics
Russophobes will not pass!
Get over your Russophobia! ChSKH, the reaction of people to the speeches of Rus-haters and sausage emigrants is most often of the same type and laconic. Both of them are almost immediately sent to hell, and in the first case such a weighty argument is supported by a reference to the domestic nuclear missile potential.
In this regard, in races on the subject, the only people who oppose the creots are, as a rule, Russoskeptics. What adds fuel to the fire is the fact that they are militant nonsense, in most cases taking liberal or techno-fascist positions, and therefore willingly strive to hurt their opponents.
Also, a rich source of lulz is the squabble between the people themselves - differing in their views on such milestones of Russian history as Tsarist Russia and the USSR. Either having different religious views (Christianity vs paganism) or not having them at all. Finally, cultural debaters can come from different, albeit close, countries. And in all these cases, the subject is rarely mentioned—sometimes even on both sides.
Also, they furiously deliver walls of text on Quora, where one question “what is russophobia” evokes a crowd of Western “analysts” who prove with their fingers, without proof, that there is “no Russophobia”, “Russophobia was invented by the Kremlin” or “Russophobia - a forced meme, for the distribution of which they pay.
Also, there is an opinion that when assessing Russian design/culture, a suspiciously larger number of Western laymen shout “goofy”, “disgusting”, “looks cheap”, “tasteless” etc., but cannot explain what, say, a budget-tank from TAZofabrika is doing “disgustingly cheap” in comparison with the Renoshka/subcompact car, and the “antique, but high-tech” of the new Russian is “tasteless.”
[edit] Word to the classics
In general, the term “Russophobia” was introduced by the poet Tyutchev. He also gave the canonical definition of the subject, according to which Russophobia is an attack on European values and the local way of life while simultaneously being overly critical of one’s homeland. At the same time, it was attributed not to some foreign national people, but to the Russians themselves. Simply put, the subject according to Tyutchev is almost equivalent to the modern concept of liberalism, and not what is usually meant by this concept these days.
People also like to cite Smerdyakov, a character from F. Dostoevsky’s “The Brothers Karamazov,” as an example of the Russophobe. He, being the bastard son of the old fart Karamazov from the city holy fool, loves to talk about theological and political topics, reducing everything to the fact that the Russians must be completely killed. In this way, Smerdyakov is trying to show that he is not just a dick from the mountain, but a tall tale. It is noteworthy that he works for his own father as a footman and cook.
How to deal with Russophobia?
Russophobia can be fought both at the state level, but also at the level of interpersonal relations between people of different countries. Any kind of xenophobia is a consequence of the lack of reliable information about another people. If residents of other countries receive reliable information about the life of the Russian people, then their hatred will subside.
It is also recommended that Russian residents contact foreigners and build friendly relations. Heads of state, who are the top officials of all of Russia, should adopt similar tactics. If you show that the Russian people are not as hostile as they are made out to be, then Russophobia will simply disappear among many foreign residents.
[edit] SUDDENLY they are Agent Smiths!
And for what the term has become now, let’s say thanks to the old dissident-protsreot, Solzhenitsyn’s friend and part-time cheater Igor Shafarevich and his nonsense of the same name, published back in the 1970s in Western Tamizdat thanks, oddly enough, to the efforts of dissidents-ERZh. In it, the author diligently attributed all anti-Russian fabrications to the Jews, accusing them of dreaming and seeing how to destroy Russia. After the publication of this vyser in Sovka, the term “Russophobia”, which had not previously been used even in political journalism, went to the people, or rather, to a certain part of it, losing its original meaning and acquiring undeserved odiousness.
Near abroad and post-Soviet space
Russophobic sentiments are quite clearly expressed in the Czech Republic. This is believed to be a consequence of the highly aggressive Soviet suppression of the so-called “Prague Spring” in the late 1960s. Now many direct participants in those events have come to power. In Georgia, after the color revolution of 2003 and the coming to power of pro-American oppositionists, there was also a strengthening of Russophobia, which had already taken place for two centuries. In Poland, for many centuries, Russophobia has been an integral part of politics and society. Perhaps Poland is one of the few countries where Russophobic tendencies prevail in both manifestations - both mass and political. After the collapse of the Union, the official authorities of the Baltic states began to pursue a very tough Russophobic policy. Russian people in these countries began to be perceived as second class. The complete suppression of the Russian language, all kinds of condemnation of Russia’s actions and even support and sympathy for terrorists during the Chechen war are just some striking examples of the policies of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia that often go to extremes.
[edit] What about IRL?
And if it’s completely IRL, then Russophobia is nothing more than one of the manifestations of xenophobia in general, characteristic of the entire history of mankind, be it Judeophobia, Japanophobia (among the Chinese, for example), ethnic strife in the Balkans, the Azerbaijani-Armenian srach or the mutual love of Ossetians with Ingush. In addition, do not forget that a typical Russophobe, as a rule, is also an Asian/Euro/Nigrophobe, etc. in the most bizarre combinations. Most often, this is banal imperialism or xenopatriotism, when not only dear Scattered people are registered as Untermensch, but also everyone whose citizenship or nationality does not belong to the “pgavilnye”.
It so happens that it is common for a person to primarily focus on the negative properties of representatives of a particular nation, extrapolating these traits to all or the majority of its representatives. Of course, no one is sinless, and during all this time of bears rubbing against the earth’s axis, so many contradictions, conflicts and other genocides and seizures of territories have accumulated that one should not be surprised at the presence of haters and ill-wishers. And because of this, enough blood has been shed and will be shed. And only God knows how much oil will be cut.
There is cold calculation and immediate benefit. For example, the head of a construction company denies employment to the Russian Ivan, preferring Ravshanov and Dzhamshutov, not because he hates everything Russian, but only because visitors are cheaper. In addition, they did not (at least) have to pay for vacations, health insurance and other niceties.
Or take the Pindos: their business simply competes with Russian ones for sales markets or for access to the extraction of natural resources. And naturally, they do not feel any love for this country and its upcoming rise.
Jews, in turn, do not like goyim as such - and do not make much difference between Russians or, for example, Arabs.
Finally, if a representative of non-Russian nationality said something unpleasant to you, this does not mean that this representative immediately hates the entire Russian people. Most likely, the problem is still with you personally.
And you should never forget that if a person hates representatives of a certain nationality, forgetting that all people are different and you shouldn’t put everyone under the same brush, then he is most likely an aggressive redneck. The main thing is to judge a person by his actions, dear friend. Although his actions, to some extent, can be determined by nationality, cultural environment, belonging to a particular country and genetics. Attempts to fully rely on these factors incite these national discords of yours are no worse than targeted stuffing.
[edit] Appearance of the term
The word “Russophobia” was first used in 1867, in a letter from the great Russian poet and diplomat Fyodor Ivanovich Tyutchev to his daughter. Tyutchev’s remark turned out so well that it can be inserted into modern articles without correcting a single word in it:
| We are talking about the Russophobia of some Russians - and very revered ones at that... Before they told us, and they said it completely sincerely, that Russia disgusts them with the lack of rights, freedom of speech, etc., etc., and Europe inspires them with tender love precisely because of the presence there all this... What do we see now? As Russia, seeking some relief, asserts itself more and more, the disgust of these gentlemen towards it only grows. For, apparently, the previous order never aroused in them such fierce hatred as modern trends in national thought... And on the contrary, no matter how much law, morality, and civilization itself are trampled in Europe, this, as we see, does not in the least diminish their favor west. They still sympathize with the Poles and find completely natural the vile policy of the Western powers towards Eastern Christians, etc., etc. In a word, in the phenomenon I have indicated, principles, as such, are in no way involved, there is nothing here except instincts , and it is the nature of these instincts that needs to be analyzed. |
[edit] Links
- Wiki project “Tradition” is the main force in the wiki environment and an article about the subject on it.
- Litzona is a dull post-creotic literary portal (on German hosting, by the way), as well as Alexander Trubin’s rant “Answer to Russophobes.”
- And here is the website of fighters against Russophobia.
- Insulting patriotism: what is real Russophobia.
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