THE GENOCIDAL ESSENCE OF “RUSCISM”: GENESIS, DEVELOPMENT AND MODERNITY

Abstract

Abstract. Reflections on the issue of the genocide of the Ukrainian people by Russia, which is based on the principles of the genocidal ideology of ruscism. This work provides an answer to the question – what is ruscism as a hateful social phenomenon. This work highlights its characteristic features – the idealistic, groundless imagination of the Russian elite regarding their alleged exceptionalism, “superhumanity”, which has always been manifested in a supercilious, contemptuous, cruel, barbaric, predatory attitude towards the enslavement of all other peoples. In the legal doctrine, there is a lack of systematic, fundamental monographic studies in the field of ruscism – a murderous ideology and the practice of its application. The author analyzes the main historical stages of the genocide of the Ukrainian people by Russia, which are aimed at the destruction of Ukrainian statehood and the Ukrainian people, have been frankly cynical, purposeful, persistent, insolent and continued unceasingly for many centuries. Based on the analysis of the problems of ruscism, the author comes to the conclusion about the need to condemn rumscis as a man-hating, murderous ideology and its practice to prevent the existence and development of such a shameful phenomenon in the civilized world, by uniting the efforts of the entire civilized world.