Dugin reveals what Moscow means by “denazification” and why it is the real reason for the war
Not only the Azov battalion, for the Kremlin the very idea of a Ukrainian people separated from the Russian one, its "westernization" is Nazi
In Paolo del Debbio's Right and Reverse broadcast on Rete4, the other evening Aleksandr Dugin repeated very clearly the dominant theme with which Russia justifies its war in Ukraine: “denazification”.
Dugin's intervention was useful to understand how from the Russian point of view the problem is not represented only by the Azov battalion or by other pro-Nazi organizations. Dugin said: "In Ukraine, Nazism was used to create an artificial identity." A statement full of meaning: the idea of a Ukrainian people separated from the Russian is what in the language of Moscow is meant by "Nazism". The consequence is that all those currently opposed to the Russian "special operation" in Ukraine are "Nazis".
This extreme conception goes hand in hand with the Russian perception that eight years ago Ukraine was forcibly westernized by a coup d'état whose instigators are in the West. If "Ukraine is an integral part of our history", as Putin said, its westernization represents an artificial alienation: "artificial identity" as Dugin said on Italian television.
When this terrible war belongs to the past, it will be up to rigorous historians to document whether in the first days of the war Putin was really deluded that the ease of the "special operation" was guaranteed by the fact that the Ukrainians longed to return to the orbit of Moscow after being separated from the Euromaidan "coup d'etat". In the meantime, however, the Russian tanks have not been welcomed in Kiev with bouquets of flowers, but the Ukrainians are opposed to them with a perhaps desperate, but certainly tenacious resistance: those Ukrainians that Dugin dubbed, interpreting the verb of state, as Nazis.
Sectors of Ukrainian society obviously offer the right for this accusation: indeed some parties (which do not reach 10 percent) and some paramilitary bodies (which are a very small part of the Ukraine in arms) flaunt symbols and epaulets of the extreme right, but the generalization of this particular datum clearly indicates an abuse of reason. They have seen in these days armored vehicles of the Russian Federation moving forward waving the flag of the Soviet Union, should we then deduce that Russia is still a Communist dictatorship? It would be ridiculous to say this, even if it is true that in Moscow far more than in Kiev the public authorities officially invoke historical continuity with the Soviet Union in the most important ceremonies, such as those of May 9th. But it would still be a scoundrel to say that Putin is "a communist dictator".
The truth is that in this part of the world that stretches between Europe and immense Asia, where liberalism is still seen as an exotic animal, political opposition has always been characterized by extreme ideological temperatures.
It was hoped that over time these temperatures would become milder and also that the small well-being resulting from an immense energy income would fuel more pragmatic reflections. Instead, in recent years there has been an extremization, of which the war on Ukraine risks being a quantum leap.
Take the case of Dugin: already in 2014 the philosopher urged to march on Kiev, the Kremlin instead assumed a more prudent posture. Dugin himself was expelled from the Moscow University for some of his "verbal excesses". Now, however, the ideology of the thinker of Eurasia and the military practice of the Kremlin coincide. The point of convergence is the denial that Ukraine can have an autonomous identity: for Dugin, let us repeat it, "Ukraine" is an artificial identity and whoever affirms it is a Nazi.
But are there sectors of Russian society that pose the problem of how this theorem contributes to widening the gap not only between Russia and the West, but above all between Russia and Ukraine? And the question of how harmful it is for Russia to present itself with the same aggressive and repressive face of Budapest 1956, Prague 1968? Optimistically, we think so.
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This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Atlantico Quotidiano at the URL https://www.atlanticoquotidiano.it/quotidiano/dugin-svela-cosa-intende-mosca-per-denazificazione-e-perche-sia-il-vero-motivo-della-guerra/ on Mon, 21 Mar 2022 03:48:00 +0000.