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Ruscism
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English
Alternative forms
en Rashism ruscism Russism Russianism
Etymology
en ru раши́зм or en uk раши́зм, ru Ра́ша фаши́зм Russia (chiefly derogatory) fascism 1 1, the first an ru en Russia 1 1. Compare ru Росси́я Russia or uk Росі́я Russia. +blend en Russia fascism.
Pronunciation
en /ˈɹʌʃɪzəm/
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Ruscism.wav Southern England
Proper noun
en politics neologism slang derogatory Russian fascism, Russianism, Great Russian chauvinism; the ideology of Russia, seen as fascism or as fascist.
2015, Elizaveta Gaufman, “Memory, Media, and Secularization: Russian Media Framing of the Ukrainian Crisis,” in Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society (2364-5334), v 1, n 1, 978-3-8382-6726-5, pp 160–61:
Pro-Ukrainian commentators also used the word Rashizm. Derived from Rasha (from the English “Russia”), combined with the Russian fashizm, and perhaps best translated as “Ruscism,” this term is . . .
2016, Elizaveta Gaufman, “Security Threats and Public Perception: Digital Russia and the Ukraine Crisis” (New Security Challenges series), Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 978-3-319-82757-5, p 107:
Pro-Ukrainian commentators have also used the word ‘Rashism’ (conflation of ‘Russia’ and ‘fascism’) to emphasize the aggressive intentions of Russia.
2020, Marlene Lurelle, “Reductio ad Hitlerum as a New Frame for Political and Geopolitical Conflicts,” in Eric Shiraev, Jennifer Keohane, Martijn Icks, and Sergei A. Samoilenko editors, Routledge Handbook of Character Assassination and Reputation Management, New York and Abingdon: Routledge, 978-1-138-55658-4, p 315:
On the other side, a large segment of the Ukrainian press has been presenting the Putin regime as fascist: commentators have coined the nickname Putler (Putin + Hitler) and the term Rashism, which conflates Russia and fascism.
en 2020-04-27 Actual problems of science and practice International Science Group 9781648716324 175 science, and science-based ultramodern technologies (AI) invented for progress have transformed into cynical means of conducting the third world war by immoral intellect of the ideologists of Ruscism [4].
en Michael Schwirtz Invasion upends a shared World War II history with Ukraine w:The Boston Globe 301 130 10 May 2022 A8 https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/840492680/ “We have beat fascism, and we will defeat Ruscism,” said Pavel Kirilenko, governor of the Donetsk region, who arrived with heavily armed guards to lay flowers at the monument.
Related terms
en rashist
en ruscist
en russist
Translations
(politics, neologism, slang, derogatory) Russian fascism
Armenian: hy ռաշիզմ
Azerbaijani: az raşizm
Belarusian: be рашы́зм m
Bulgarian: bg раши́зъм m
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 俄西斯主義 éxīsīzhǔyì
Czech: cs rašismus m
Esperanto: eo raŝismo
Estonian: et rašism
French: fr ruscisme m
Georgian: ka რაშიზმი
German: de Raschismus m
Japanese: ja ラシズム rashizumu
Korean: ko 라시즘
Latvian: lv rašisms m
Lithuanian: lt rašizmas m
Polish: pl raszyzm m
Portuguese: pt russismo m
Romanian: ro ruscism n
Russian: ru раши́зм m
Slovak: sk rašizmus m
Spanish: es ruscismo m
Turkish: tr ruşizm
Ukrainian: uk раши́зм m
Yiddish: yi ראַשיזם m
See also
en Eurasianism
en Putinism
en Duginism
en Ukronazi, en Ukronazism
en Putler
References
The War in Ukraine Has Unleashed a New Word Snyder Timothy D. Timothy D. Snyder 2022-04-23 The New York Times Magazine 0362-4331 The New York Times Company https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/22/magazine/ruscism-ukraine-russia-war.html 2022-04-23 https://web.archive.org/web/20220424204029/https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/22/magazine/ruscism-ukraine-russia-war.html 2022-04-24 In a creative play on three different languages, Ukrainians identify an enemy: ‘ruscism.’
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