なぜロシア人はウクライナ人を憎むのか･･･Volodymyr Yermolenko氏の論考

Volodymyr Yermolenko @yermolenko_v

My attempt to understand why Russians hate / dehumanize Ukrainians so much, -- which is a way to understand one of the major causes of this war. Thread 1/10

Volodymyr Yermolenko @yermolenko_v

Ukrainian testimonies of meeting with "Russian soldiers" during the occupation are often pointing at Buryats, Bashkirs, Chechens, etc. This is a practical example to understand: Russians is not a nation, but an empire, which collected various ethnicities inside its body 2/10

Volodymyr Yermolenko @yermolenko_v

Its only capacity to exist is to strip all "constituent nations" of their identity and culture, calling them "Russians". But instead of creating a "melting pot" in which these nations would enrich each other, it created a society in which humans are must forget their roots 3/10

Volodymyr Yermolenko @yermolenko_v

this politics of amnesia transformed people into rootless biological / physical units in whom identity and culture should be erased. This was the nature of the "Soviet people" in the USSR. But "Russian people" is also an imperial construct based upon this forced amnesia 4/10

Volodymyr Yermolenko @yermolenko_v

This can explain why Russians started hating Ukrainians so much: despite several centures of erasing Ukrainian identity and memory, physical extermination (Holodomor etc), Ukrainians miraculously succeeded in building a nation. 5/10

Volodymyr Yermolenko @yermolenko_v

Building a nation means: having a society which has a collective identity and common practices despite all differences; most importantly, which shapes and reshapes its political elites instead of being shaped by them 6/10

Volodymyr Yermolenko @yermolenko_v

compared to Ukrainians, "Russian nation" is still barely existing; thefore key kremlin ideologues are desperately looking for other metaphors to explain what Russia is ("civilization", "empire", "Nazi fighters") but all this only hides a big void: absence of Russian nation 7/10

Volodymyr Yermolenko @yermolenko_v

So Ukrainians are seen as : a) traitors who reject Russian melting pot b) alter ego which succeeded in building an Eastern Slavic nation which Russians failed 8/10

Volodymyr Yermolenko @yermolenko_v

In a way this attitude is comparable to Nazi attitude to Jews (both an "internal" enemy and an alter ego, an "example" of "race purity" for Nazi prop) but with important difference: 9/10

Volodymyr Yermolenko @yermolenko_v

Jews were for Nazis "the Other" which wanted to "be like you"; Ukrainians are for Russians "like us" which now want to be "the Other". And therefore have to be exterminated as major enemy par excellence ("anti-Russia") 10/10

にのうらさとこ🌻 @ameayunon

虐殺のあったキーウで生き延びたウクライナ人男性の証言 「特に残虐だった隊のロシア兵は『どうして各家庭にパソコンや電子レンジがあるんだ、どうしてこんなに良い生活をしているんだ』と怒っていた。貧困に喘ぐウクライナに行けば解放者として歓迎されると信じ込まされていたのだろう」 #報道特集

Yuki@ウクライナ🇺🇦一時🇯🇵帰国中 @Yuki20611795

ロシア兵がブチャに残した落書き 「誰がお前たちに美しく生きることを認めたんだ？」 初見はウクライナ人を馬鹿にしているだけかと思ったがイルピンやブチャは再開発が進み綺麗な建物や住宅が多かったので、それに嫉妬した貧しいロシア兵の言葉なのかもしれない pic.twitter.com/8V3CWU0bmf

仮蔵 @karizo2022

「ロシア兵の故郷：傍受記録から見える風景」 昨日投稿した「ロシアの未来、3つのシナリオ：1. 北朝鮮」に関連して、今日は別の角度から「ロシア兵がどんな地域出身なのか」に迫るスレッドをご紹介。著者はSergej Sumlenny氏。ロシアの地方出身のコンサルタントです。 twitter.com/sumlenny/statu…

RarifiedGem @loverainonme

@yermolenko_v @JanetteD Some very recent history comparing Ukraine and Russia. Plus, Russia's imperialist history in Ukraine. pic.twitter.com/CYgClW0TNh