Rashism: the beast from the abyss

 The beast you saw was and is not

And must come out of the abyss.

And into destruction.

Revelation of Saint. John the Evangelist, 17:8

Historians of the future will argue - who, when and where invented the word: RASHISM. It is clear only that it arose almost simultaneously in many Ukrainian heads, captured by anger and bitterness. At once, the word became a national, widely used sign of hatred for the Russian aggressor.

As early as April 22, 2022, the famous American Historian Timothy Snyder in an article in The New York Times Magazine fixed the appearance of a new term RASHISM, amidst reports of crimes by the Russian military on Ukrainian soil in Irpen, Bucha, and Mariupol.

RASHISM is one of the most apt and succinct terms that emerged during the war. Hybrid war gave birth to a hybrid term, which for the first time in world history combines the name of a criminal ideology (fascism) with the nationality of the perpetrators - Russia. Before that, neither communism, nor nazism, nor anti-semitism had a "nationality". The Ukrainian people, rejecting liberal-distilled political correctness, clearly and unambiguously pointed to their eternal mortal enemy, Russia. The Poles did the same, calling their oppressors "Moskals".

RASHISM is a new word, but has ancient roots of centuries. It is a purely Russian phenomenon, inseparable from the history of the Russian people and its state. It comes from the depths of the 14th century, when the Moscow Prince Ivan Kalita initiated the "gathering of Russian lands" - that is, unrestrained and brutal expansion against neighboring peoples, which led to the proclamation of Russia an empire in 1721. In whatever semblances Russia existed - in the form of an absolutist monarchy, a communist union of republics, or a post-communist federation - its essence, which was accurately outlined by the outstanding Russian philosopher, a native of Kyiv, Nikolai Berdyaev (1874-1948), was unchanged:

"Russia is the most nationalistic country in the world, a country of unprecedented excesses of nationalism, oppression of subordinate nationalities by russification, a country of national praise... A country that considers itself the only vocation and rejects all Europe as rotten and the spawn of the devil" ("The Soul of Russia" 1915).

It was the centuries-old conditions of everyday life in Russia-a mixture of dark medieval slavery, messianic Orthodox chauvinism, militarism, and ideas of Russian superiority-that created that special phenomenon whose name is "deep people": an uncomplaining mass of Russians capable of violence and brutality wars, the creation of the "black hundred". A people infected with the bacillus of xenophobia and God's choice.

The Russian anticommunist writer Ivan Shmelyev (1873-1950), nominated by Thomas Mann for the Nobel Prize for Literature, gave this devastating description of his countrymen:

"Russia is a people that hates the will, that adores slavery, that loves fetters on its hands and feet, that loves its bloody despots... living for centuries in darkness, obscurantism... always ready to enslave, to suppress everything and everyone, the whole world. This is not a people, but the historical curse of humanity".

At a time when the West was captivated by the brilliance of Russian imperial culture, read the works of Fyodor Dostoevsky and Leo Tolstoy, adored the music of Tchaikovsky and Igor Stravinsky, was delighted by the ballet of Sergei Diaghilev and the voice of Feodor Chaliapin , in the vast expanses of Russia was growing wild power, hostile to Western ideas of democracy and liberalism, ready for wars of conquest and violent suppression of revolts - in Central Asia and the Caucasus, in Poland and Ukraine, in Hungary and Czechoslovakia.

A force that eventually spawned a new "Beast from the Abyss" - Putin - in the back alleys of St. Petersburg.

 Putin is a targeted complexed mediocrity, surrounded by Chekist lackeys. This little man with an inferiority complex suddenly fell ill with delusions of grandeur, and before our eyes compares himself to Peter the Great.

It was not him who created RASHISM, which appeared long before Putin. But Putin has skillfully saddled him, refined and modernized it. To the traditional Russian despotism he added the repressive elements of Stalinism and the cult of victory over Russia's enemies ("pobedobesie"); from his German experience as a KGB officer Putin absorbed not the wisdom of Goethe's Faust but Hitler's deceptive rhetoric about the poor "divided German people" and Goebbels' total propaganda methods, elevaiting them to Orwellian heights.

Add to this toxic mix of dirty achievements of Putin's predecessors new elements: bribing Ukrainian and Western politicians with Russian petrodollars, using modern information and networking technologies and cyber warfare.

In a departure from Yeltsin's anarchic democracy, Putin has built a classic fascist state in Russia, based on leaderism, militarism, state capitalism, and the suppression of human rights and the elimination of political opposition.

For this purpose, the word RASHISM, as a derivative of Russian fascism, is entirely accurate.

RASHISM is the phenomenon of a new Satan, armed with a destructive ideology of hate and modern multiple rocket launchers. Satan has invaded the more or less balanced world of international law and order, and has announced an ultimatum to the countries which have long forgotten about war. This Satan wants to destroy a world of global civilization, abundance and freedom, political compromise and reconciliation of former enemies, a world of advanced international tourism, inclusive trade and growing humanitarian standards.

A world in which Ukraine, Poland, Lithuania, the United States, and dozens of other countries existed until February 24, 2022.

The collective Satan was a group of Kremlin political and military criminals led by Putin. These petty people, prone to medieval occult rituals, are capable of plunging the world into the darkness of nuclear winter. We know their names, and we are waiting for them to take their places in the dock at the International Tribunal for the crimes of Russia as a terrorist state.

But there is another group of people who will be charged with developing a theory of RASHISM and planning crimes.

Among these crazy radicals, stands out Alexander Dugin - a pseudo-philosopher, a fascist by conviction, and provocateur by vocation. It was he who inspired Putin's "historic mission" - an attempt to destroy Ukraine as the first step in World War III, during which Russia must defeat the West and establish world domination.

To make the readers believe that we are dealing with a mad messenger of the Antichrist, I refer to the article by A. Dugin "Beautiful Russia" (www.geo-politika. ru, July 29, 2022).

This is what this future looks like:

- There will be no global social networks at all;

- The dollar and euro will be canceled, the reign of the ruble will begin;

- Russia will become the Imperial States;

- Zelensky will imprisoned for life where another color revolution buffoon sits;

- There will be ethno-folk Russian and Eurasian psychedelics on all channels;

- There will be a restored State Planning System in the economy;

- There will be a lot of products from Belarus, which will become an Imperial State;

- The government will be housed in the air, in a luxurious suspended structure attached to a huge airship. The blimp will float over the Imperial States, from where the authorities will observe through binoculars whether all is well or all according to plan. As in ancient China, the authorities of the Minister of the Clouds will be introduced, as well as the head of the Department of Federal Dreaming..."

Do you recognize the Joker's sinister smile?

In the article "The Polish Question. Division of Ukraine" (26.05.2022) Dugin does not smile when he touches on the subject of Putin-hated countries - Ukraine and Poland, calling the visit of Polish President Andrzej Duda to Kyiv a "turning point" in the integration of friendly countries. "The introduction of Polish troops (into Ukraine - Ed.) will mean the direct involvement of NATO in the conflict, which means that everything translates to a full escalation level. The likelihood of using nuclear weapons is growing," Dugin dreams of Poland's involvement in the Russian-Ukrainian war.

The Beast from the Abyss wants the fire to spill over to Poland, to become worldwide.

***

A skinny ten-year-old girl looks at me. I notice with horror that she's missing one arm. And she dreamed so much of playing the violin.

On a bench in the park sits an old man. He is dead, torn apart by fragments of a Russian winged missile. Near the dead man, children are playing in a sandbox.

Two boys, cheerful and strong as oak trees, hugging each other, laughing in the photo. They are brothers. Both were killed at the front, repelling the attacks of the Russian invaders.

The dusty body of a dead mother, who had covered a small child with her body to save him, is being pulled out from under the ruins of a house.

These are the victims - of RASHISM, the murderers who call themselves "liberators of the Ukrainian people". Victims of Putin, Dugin and other criminals. Victims of those 86% of Russians who support aggression against Ukraine.

And there is no forgiveness for them.

They must burn in the hellfire they lit.

Disappear in the Abyss from which they came to kill Ukrainians, Poles and other free people.

The beast of Rashism must be destroyed.

Eternal curse on him!

Yuri Scherbak

Photo: Romko Malko, 2022