The head of the department at the Institute of History of Ukraine of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, corresponding member of the NAS of Ukraine Larisa Yakubova, in an interview with the media platform "ArmiyaInform," spoke about the nature and danger of Rashism as an aggressive ideology and totalitarian political practice of the modern Russian Federation.
The scholar noted: "The main thesis is that today Rashism is not just a challenge to Ukraine, an existential question for Ukrainians—whether to exist or not. It is a question and challenge to the entire world—whether it will exist and what kind of world it will be. This global challenge posed by Russia to the world in terms of the roadmap for the future is a question about what the main trend of this world will be. Will it be a world moving toward an increase in the number of countries that are free by definition, where conditions for the free development of the individual and the realization of all their talents are created, or will it be a completely different, opposite world of totalitarian control and enslavement of the individual? So now the question is whether neototalitarianism will become the new leading form of political existence in the world. The modern armed aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine is viewed by Russia’s meaning-makers as a war of the so-called Russian civilization against the rest of the world. It is about whether the European civilization created over the last two millennia, which by its main definition and vector of development remains liberal-democratic in its essence, will withstand. If Russia succeeds in undermining it, neototalitarianism will become the main defining trend of political life worldwide. Rashism is the desire to shove a person back into that form of social existence that was replicated for many centuries, in which a person is worth nothing, where individuality and personal freedom are not envisaged as a form of existence."
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Source: media platform "ArmiyaInform"