Russophobia: a disease or a destructive method?
At one time, speaking at a meeting of the Public Chamber (OPRF), Russian television journalist Nikolai Svanidze said with extreme irritation that he had read the inscription “I am Russian” at one of the Moscow region fences. Nikolai Karlovich, as it turned out, was worried by the question: why can someone take it like this and allow himself to write the said phrase on the fence, and quote: “what did he do to be Russian?” (It turns out to be Russian, now you need not only to be born in a Slavic family, but also to do something special, so that such gentlemen as Nikolai Svanidze and his other like-minded people would give you this right).
A strange situation, strange questions that are suspiciously systematically raised in our society, and often become a sort of starting point for the situation in which society itself needs to be unified by all means, taking away from him not only national identity, but even the right to think about topic of their ethnicity.
Returning to the irritability of a famous TV journalist and a member of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation, the very fact of how a process of national identity for any person can be turned into an object for very harsh criticism is striking. And the question here is not only about the mentioned Svanidze. This is a trend that is hard to miss. Note that the well-known public figure of Russia was outraged by the very fact that something is being written on the fences, but the text of the phrase “I am Russian!” Nikolai Karlovich would say about his irritability if he saw on the fence, for example , a well-known word of three letters, which is still more common on the fences of our latitudes than the phrase that was the reason for Svanidze to start talking about Russian fascism ...
History With the phrase and reaction to it from Mr. Svanidze, it happened about two years ago - some time after the print edition of the amazing Russian Language edition was signed, one of whose co-authors was Nikolai Karlovich.
Something over the past couple of years has changed significantly in Russia in relation to the concept of "Russian"? Yes - according to the Russian language textbook, thank God, our children do not study, but for the rest ... There are many gentlemen who believe that any mention of Russianness, Russian is a big step, towards ethnic chauvinism, certainly aimed at moral and other humiliation of representatives of other nationalities. Like, if you allow yourself somewhere to say (write) that you are Russian, then you are a priori fascist-anti-Semitic chauvinist of the upper level.
The logic, of course, is amazing ... Especially amazing, it looks in the context that about 80% of the Russian population is still Russian. It turns out that lately, the forces that are trying to force the absolute majority of the population of the Russian Federation, perhaps, to be ashamed of their ethnic origin, have become increasingly active. And despite the fact that the very word “Russian” has a much wider context. Russian is also a person who, by virtue of being associated with Russian culture, Russian traditions, Russian life, perceives himself to be Russian, although his ancestors had a different nationality. Russian is the perception of oneself by a person who lives and works in Russia and for the good of Russia, raises children, constructs and respectfully treats representatives of other nationalities, demanding a positive attitude towards himself. Let him be ethnically Chuvash, Yakut, Kumyk or Belarusian.
In this regard, it is extremely silly to talk about Russianness or non-Russianness, for example, Lermontov, Pushkin, Gogol, Aksakov. But there are people in our country today who are, let's say, amused by the search for “non-Russian” roots even among famous Russian historical figures. The goal of such “fun” is clear - to form such a “Russianness complex” among the public, or even a “Russian inferiority complex”, turning it into a starting point for achieving your own goals.
The count nationality at one time disappeared from our passports, as someone thought it was a move to indicate their ethnicity. Soon the registration data may disappear from the document, you cannot specify the gender in any of the forms. And this, they say, also moveton. In the end, people at the legal level are transformed, excuse me, into creatures that do not have to identify themselves either by gender, or by ethnicity, or by any other attribute. A sort of creature, which the heroes of the Zamyatin novel “We” (1920 year) could well have recalled, but those heroes even had sexual division ...
At this rate, we (thanks to the active “social activists”) may well lead to the idea that even the name of the country in which we live will be sinful to pronounce publicly, for it may offend, for example, a foreign citizen ... In this regard, it is clear where suddenly “Raski”, “Roissy” and other slang came from those who prefer the “Russian” language to Russian, and from those whom, you see, even the use of the word “Russian” is alarming, and even scares to trembling in the knees for some inexplicable reason.
So here. I would like to appeal to those people who, in their undisguised Russophobia, pass all imaginable or unimaginable boundaries: well, if you are a Russophobe, then make an effort to speak directly about it. They say, this way and that, the Russian nation and the people who refer to themselves as a bone in their throat, cause frank discomfort that turns into hostility. They say that it is in my interest that the word “Russian” disappear altogether. Why build oneself of “something” not subject to criticism, trying to use “clever speeches” with obviously far-fetched and frankly provocative theses to turn the prevailing worldview of other people?
By the way, with considerable probability it can be argued that it was Russophobia, introduced from the outside and found fertilized soil within our country, did its dirty business of bloody fragmentation of the state in 1917 and 1991. As a fact: even today there are forces trying to repeat the success of their predecessors ...
A strange situation, strange questions that are suspiciously systematically raised in our society, and often become a sort of starting point for the situation in which society itself needs to be unified by all means, taking away from him not only national identity, but even the right to think about topic of their ethnicity.
Returning to the irritability of a famous TV journalist and a member of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation, the very fact of how a process of national identity for any person can be turned into an object for very harsh criticism is striking. And the question here is not only about the mentioned Svanidze. This is a trend that is hard to miss. Note that the well-known public figure of Russia was outraged by the very fact that something is being written on the fences, but the text of the phrase “I am Russian!” Nikolai Karlovich would say about his irritability if he saw on the fence, for example , a well-known word of three letters, which is still more common on the fences of our latitudes than the phrase that was the reason for Svanidze to start talking about Russian fascism ...
History With the phrase and reaction to it from Mr. Svanidze, it happened about two years ago - some time after the print edition of the amazing Russian Language edition was signed, one of whose co-authors was Nikolai Karlovich.
Something over the past couple of years has changed significantly in Russia in relation to the concept of "Russian"? Yes - according to the Russian language textbook, thank God, our children do not study, but for the rest ... There are many gentlemen who believe that any mention of Russianness, Russian is a big step, towards ethnic chauvinism, certainly aimed at moral and other humiliation of representatives of other nationalities. Like, if you allow yourself somewhere to say (write) that you are Russian, then you are a priori fascist-anti-Semitic chauvinist of the upper level.
The logic, of course, is amazing ... Especially amazing, it looks in the context that about 80% of the Russian population is still Russian. It turns out that lately, the forces that are trying to force the absolute majority of the population of the Russian Federation, perhaps, to be ashamed of their ethnic origin, have become increasingly active. And despite the fact that the very word “Russian” has a much wider context. Russian is also a person who, by virtue of being associated with Russian culture, Russian traditions, Russian life, perceives himself to be Russian, although his ancestors had a different nationality. Russian is the perception of oneself by a person who lives and works in Russia and for the good of Russia, raises children, constructs and respectfully treats representatives of other nationalities, demanding a positive attitude towards himself. Let him be ethnically Chuvash, Yakut, Kumyk or Belarusian.
In this regard, it is extremely silly to talk about Russianness or non-Russianness, for example, Lermontov, Pushkin, Gogol, Aksakov. But there are people in our country today who are, let's say, amused by the search for “non-Russian” roots even among famous Russian historical figures. The goal of such “fun” is clear - to form such a “Russianness complex” among the public, or even a “Russian inferiority complex”, turning it into a starting point for achieving your own goals.
The count nationality at one time disappeared from our passports, as someone thought it was a move to indicate their ethnicity. Soon the registration data may disappear from the document, you cannot specify the gender in any of the forms. And this, they say, also moveton. In the end, people at the legal level are transformed, excuse me, into creatures that do not have to identify themselves either by gender, or by ethnicity, or by any other attribute. A sort of creature, which the heroes of the Zamyatin novel “We” (1920 year) could well have recalled, but those heroes even had sexual division ...
At this rate, we (thanks to the active “social activists”) may well lead to the idea that even the name of the country in which we live will be sinful to pronounce publicly, for it may offend, for example, a foreign citizen ... In this regard, it is clear where suddenly “Raski”, “Roissy” and other slang came from those who prefer the “Russian” language to Russian, and from those whom, you see, even the use of the word “Russian” is alarming, and even scares to trembling in the knees for some inexplicable reason.
So here. I would like to appeal to those people who, in their undisguised Russophobia, pass all imaginable or unimaginable boundaries: well, if you are a Russophobe, then make an effort to speak directly about it. They say, this way and that, the Russian nation and the people who refer to themselves as a bone in their throat, cause frank discomfort that turns into hostility. They say that it is in my interest that the word “Russian” disappear altogether. Why build oneself of “something” not subject to criticism, trying to use “clever speeches” with obviously far-fetched and frankly provocative theses to turn the prevailing worldview of other people?
By the way, with considerable probability it can be argued that it was Russophobia, introduced from the outside and found fertilized soil within our country, did its dirty business of bloody fragmentation of the state in 1917 and 1991. As a fact: even today there are forces trying to repeat the success of their predecessors ...
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