The Genocidal Essence of ‘Rаshism’: Genesis, Development and Modernity
The Genocidal Essence of ‘Rаshism’: Genesis, Development and Modernity

Summary/Abstract: The term ‘rashism’ appeared among lexical terms not so long ago. Its etymological meaning is not related to the term‘Russia.’ Among modern researchers, politicians, journalists, included in this article, this term is used to refer to state-legal ideology,social practices and the political regime of Russia. The term ‘rashism’ was first used by the Russian journalist Nikolai Andreev in hisarticle ‘Ordinary Rashism,’ which was published in 1990 in the Russian magazine ‘Ogoniok’. Andreev called ‘Rashism’ the extremelywarlike ideological views of the Russian militaristic writer Karem Rush, a Kurd by national origin. Actually, the term ‘rashism’ comesfrom his surname, in this sense. One of the works of Karem Rush, widely published by special order of the then Minister of Defenceof the USSR and was translated at the Pentagon and published in the United States.Reflections on the issue of the genocide of the Ukrainian people by Russia, which is based on the principles of the genocidalideology of ‘rashism’. This work provides an answer to the question — what is ‘rashism’ as a hateful social phenomenon. Thiswork highlights its characteristic features — the idealistic, groundless imagination of the Russian elite regarding their allegedexceptionalism, ‘superhumanity’, which has always been manifested in a supercilious, contemptuous, cruel, barbaric, predatoryattitude towards the enslavement of all other peoples. In the legal doctrine, there is a lack of systematic, fundamental monographicstudies in the field of ‘rashism’ — a murderous ideology and the practice of its application. The author analyses the main historicalstages of the genocide of the Ukrainian people by Russia, which are aimed at the destruction of Ukrainian statehood and theUkrainian people, have been frankly cynical, purposeful, persistent, insolent and continued unceasingly for many centuries. Basedon the analysis of the problems of ‘rashism’, the author comes to the conclusion about the need to condemn ‘rashism’ as a manhating,murderous ideology and its practice to prevent the existence and development of such a shameful phenomenon in thecivilised world, by uniting the efforts of the entire civilised world.

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