Quote (El1te @ 14 Aug 2023 00:06)
Which scholars though? I'm going to guess only Western and US-allied scholars. Forced russification and the like are similar to what fascists do but are not exclusive to fascism.
I strongly believe that Putin wants to restore the Russian monarchy. I believe to achieve this Putin wants & is currently in favour of an autocratic regime to first restore the Russian sphere of influence somewhere similar to where it was during the Soviet Union before undergoing an official transition back to the Tsardom. He can achieve this by force & the threat of nuclear weapons, while grinding out his opponents in long wars where Russia historically has had the advantage and have been successful in.
However, I'm not sure what his plan is for the monarch since Lenin and the Bolsheviks were so thorough in completely eradicating the Russian royal family along with all of their relatives and extended relatives. I however do not think he would ever want to install himself as the Tsar but maybe someone he is close to.
Russians today are very traditional conservatives who revere the Orthodox church - Fascism is a modernist ideology that explicitly rejects conservatism, and this is most certainly not true of the majority of Russians. To call them fascist is just a gross mischaracterization of the ideology of fascism. Putin is closer to Francisco Franco imo - there's alot of alignment with fascism but the ideology itself is rejected in favour of traditional conservative institutions.
One of the greatest tragedies indeed of the Bolshevik revolution was the near complete destruction of Russian high culture & intellectualism - I believe Putin does want to restore this along with the traditional Tsardom. The Russians overwhelming do not support the Western-style liberal democracy of the Russian Federation how it currently exists/existed in the recent past
Quote (ferdia @ 14 Aug 2023 00:12)
he is still beating on about Ruscim. I mean the wiki page on this, the first link, highlights that this is an idea fermented by racists. it blows my mind. it is literally dehumanizing and he is utterly unrepentant when he champions it. I highlighted this repeatedly and gave up on pointing this out when he just went on and on about it.
also its 24 hours later so i will just say, someone mentioned "illegal coup", my response is: this is a misnomer. there is nothing legal about any coup, by definition. :)
yes, pedantic haha.
Such a pity how you can invent yourself that i am racist or whatever equivalent delirious claim and then that "RUSCIST" is a deshumanizing word ?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruscism"
This article is about the contemporary syncretic state
ideology of Russia under Vladimir Putin. For the 1930–1940s Russian fascism, see Russian Fascist Party. For the political ideology of Vladimir Putin, see Putinism.
Not to be confused with Racism or Russianism.
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The artciles explains it clearly: exactly like i posted: it's a mix of Russian and Fascism, it's complexe.
Buy yourself a dignity and try to read and understand what Ruscism is, also check out:
- Russification
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russification- Russanism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RussianismCan't you understand this ? Well this is dramatic, and it's your problem. Exactly like the "2014 coup"...