{"id":1201,"date":"2022-04-04T19:13:35","date_gmt":"2022-04-04T23:13:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv-ukrtaz\/?p=1201"},"modified":"2022-10-12T08:10:36","modified_gmt":"2022-10-12T12:10:36","slug":"denazification-or-the-solution-to-the-ukrainian-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv-ukrtaz\/2022\/04\/04\/denazification-or-the-solution-to-the-ukrainian-question\/","title":{"rendered":"Denazification, or “the solution to the Ukrainian question”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The turns of phrase one finds in the echo chambers of the internet can be puzzling to newcomers. (Think of walking into a QAnon forum and hearing about the Satan-worshipping, cannibalistic, pedophilic babykillers<\/a> of the U.S. Democratic Party.) That a state government might come to create its own alternate reality<\/a> should, therefore, be not as shocking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the case of the current Russian invasion, the term “denazification” has played a puzzling role that some<\/a>, like Timothy Snyder<\/a> and Jason Stanley<\/a>, have tried to demystify. But Russian neo-imperialist (and former Yanukovych advisor) Tymofei Sergeitsev, in his new RIA Novosti piece “\u0427\u0442\u043e \u0420\u043e\u0441\u0441\u0438\u044f \u0434\u043e\u043b\u0436\u043d\u0430 \u0441\u0434\u0435\u043b\u0430\u0442\u044c \u0441 \u0423\u043a\u0440\u0430\u0438\u043d\u043e\u0439<\/a>” (“What Russia Should Do to Ukraine”), has just provided a pretty clear demonstration that it is really just a Russian code word for “de-Ukrainization” — in other words, for what may simply be called genocide<\/a>. The Ukraine Crisis Media Center has helpfully translated the piece here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sergei Sumlenny’s Twitter thread<\/a> from a couple of days ago suggests that mass executions, of the kind found these last few days in places like Bucha<\/a> and Trostyanets<\/a>, seem to have been part of Russia’s “solution to the Ukrainian question<\/a>” all along. (Russian responses to these revelations have of course involved further mystification<\/a>.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Adding together the mass production of “unreality<\/a>” by Russian state media with Putin’s now explicit targeting of “the West<\/a>” as its enemy means that war — informational, and therefore hybrid war, that is, the kind of war that is native to the twenty-first century — is already upon not only Ukraine, but all of us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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