Ruscism

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Borrowed from Russian раши́зм (rašízm) or Ukrainian раши́зм (rašýzm), blend of Ра́ша (Ráša, “Russia (chiefly derogatory)”) +‎ фаши́зм (fašízm, “fascism”), the first an unadapted borrowing from English Russia. Compare Russian Росси́я (Rossíja, “Russia”) or Ukrainian Росі́я (Rosíja, “Russia”).

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Ruscism

  1. (politics, neologism, slang, derogatory) Russian fascism, Russianism, Great Russian chauvinism; the ideology of Russia, seen as fascism or as fascist.
    • 2015, Elizaveta Gaufman, “Memory, Media, and Secularization: Russian Media Framing of the Ukrainian Crisis,” in Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society (→ISSN), v 1, n 1, →ISBN, pp 160–61:
      Pro-Ukrainian commentators also used the word Rashizm. Derived from Rasha (from the English “Russia”), combined with the Russian fashizm, and perhaps best translated as “Ruscism,” this term is . . .
    • 2016, Elizaveta Gaufman, “Security Threats and Public Perception: Digital Russia and the Ukraine Crisis” (New Security Challenges series), Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, p 107:
      Pro-Ukrainian commentators have also used the word ‘Rashism’ (conflation of ‘Russia’ and ‘fascism’) to emphasize the aggressive intentions of Russia.
    • 2020, Marlene Lurelle, “Reductio ad Hitlerum as a New Frame for Political and Geopolitical Conflicts,” in Eric Shiraev, Jennifer Keohane, Martijn Icks, and Sergei A. Samoilenko editors, Routledge Handbook of Character Assassination and Reputation Management, New York and Abingdon: Routledge, →ISBN, p 315:
      On the other side, a large segment of the Ukrainian press has been presenting the Putin regime as fascist: commentators have coined the nickname Putler (Putin + Hitler) and the term Rashism, which conflates Russia and fascism.
    • 2020 April 27, Actual problems of science and practice, International Science Group, →ISBN, page 175:
      […] science, and science-based ultramodern technologies (AI) invented for progress have transformed into cynical means of conducting the third world war by immoral intellect of the ideologists of Ruscism [4].
    • 2022 May 10, Michael Schwirtz, “Invasion upends a shared World War II history with Ukraine”, in The Boston Globe, volume 301, number 130, page A8:
      “We have beat fascism, and we will defeat Ruscism,” said Pavel Kirilenko, governor of the Donetsk region, who arrived with heavily armed guards to lay flowers at the monument.

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  • Snyder, Timothy D. (2022 April 23) “The War in Ukraine Has Unleashed a New Word”, in The New York Times Magazine‎[1], The New York Times Company, →ISSN, archived from the original on 2022-04-24: “In a creative play on three different languages, Ukrainians identify an enemy: ‘ruscism.’”
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