Updated: February 15, 2024
This post is a comment on the video “Ugly and Russophobic”, that was published on YouTube by Jeffrey Sachs. The video has been removed however, by Jeffrey Sachs. The United Nations has published a video about Russophobia as well: ‘Russophobia’ Term Used to Justify Moscow’s War Crimes in Ukraine (Briefer) | United Nations
I have watched Jeffrey Sachs’s video before it was removed, and I can and have to state therefore that he did not use the word Russophobia to justify Russian war crimes in Ukraine, at all. He explained, that the in the west started russophobia is used by the west to create hatred against Russia in order to make their own proxy war, their provoked war, their provocations towards Russia, legal, justified. A kind of: “It is necessary to kill the Russians.” Sachs is right.
I consider the conclusion of the UN, that the word russophobia is used to justify Russian war crimes, as a misinterpretation, misinformation, therefore false, and even very effective western propaganda for the war industry.
My comment on the word “russophobia”.
It started a long time ago. In 1956 I was 8 years young and sensed the intense fear of my parents for the Russians who invaded Hungary. My father was a Russophobe: the reason for that were Stalin, Khrushchev, and what he knew about communism.
Russophobia. “Anti-Russian sentiment, commonly referred to as russophobia, is dislike or fear of Russia, the Russians, Russian culture, or Russian policy. The Collins English Dictionary defines it as intense and often irrational hatred of Russia. It is often related to anti-Soviet and occasionally also to anti-Slavic sentiment.” (Wiki)
In my opinion russophobia is a logic result, caused by the Russian Tsars, and the leaders of the communist party that followed after, like Stalin, Khrushchev. The word russophobia today is therefore in my opinion only the fear for Russian politics and their leaders.
People in the west were, because of the taboo in the west to be interested in Russia, Russian culture and so on, not informed and mostly even misinformed about the Russian people, their culture. Western peoples assumed that Russians were enthusiastically following their leaders, and therefore to be disgusted.
The phobia for Russian political leaders however existed also in the Russian people, intensified sometimes to unbearable levels, transformed because of that into an unstoppable courage. Russian composer Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 11 evokes the first uprising of 1905, when peasants stormed the Tsar’s Palace.
The 1917 Russian Revolution brought an end to the power of the Tsar era, the Russian royal dictators.
This shows that the western interpretation of the word russophobia is based on the same fear and disgust as the common Russian people experienced for their own leaders and their politics.
Therefore the word russophobia should be replaced by a word that fathoms the fear in peoples, worldwide, for the [totalitarian] regime in their country, and the absence of, or censored independent journalism, next to physical, emotional and mental punishments, torture, terrorism that these regimes practice against those who could be a threat for informing the people about facts, and create revolutions.
This kind of regimes are everywhere, and yes, also USA, EU, the entire “democratic” west, have regime-like governments that practice and/or contribute to censorship, shadow banning, torture, terrorism, murder, cruelties. [Julian Assange]
My conclusion: The phobia for Russia is not sustainable: it does not create any positive perspective or condition for a real future for mankind. The future is cooperation, and only cooperation, which is possible when there is a will to communicate, to talk, and to find the hard core of the problems, the truth of it. The common sense of solutions. Phobia is hatred, fear is hatred, it is a closed door to communication and negotiation. It is based on one-sided information, indoctrination, ignorance, is based on absence of self reflection. Factually Russophobia is based on the phobia for the True Self, the psychological dark side, the darkness of the unconsciousness within, whereabout Carl Gustav Jung spoke and wrote, and it is within every single human being.
Others are the mirror of the self. You see in another one what is inside of you, but are not aware of. You cannot remove the dirt from the glass of the mirror: it is not there. USA does the same with Russia, and all who are Russophobic should watch inside and check there that one should work at, and solve. USA is scared to watch and admit the existence of their own darkness. USA prefers to show the mask of The Saviour of Humanity. It works. USA shows how easy it is fool people, to control the media, to mislead people, to indoctrinate people, to create enemies, to create hatred, to fuel hatred, that make people believe that the war-industry is a deity, a holy must, and the war crimes are legitimate. Finally people like war. It is good. Their hatred grows into unstoppable passionate aggression, lust for war. There is even war in the social media, and if one is against USA, you are of course for Putin[post number 8], a Russian troll. I am against war. It is outdated and will sooner or later extinct all life forms. War has to be exterminated. It can! By truth.
Additional
- Russophobia – Professor Glenn Diesen – See Springer Link
- Biden sells weapon to majority of authoritarian regimes https://theintercept.com/2023/05/11/united-states-foreign-weapons-sales/…
- Published: May 11, 2023
- In: The Intercept
- By: Stephen Semler
- Documentary (2019) “State Funeral“, the funeral of Joseph Stalin. / The documentary ends with: According to historical research, more than 27 million Soviet citizens were murdered, executed, tortured to death, imprisoned, sent to Gulag labor camps, or deported during Stalin’s regime. An additional 15 million people are estimated to have starved to death.
- Shostakovich Against Stalin – The War Symphonies
- Superpower. The only thing new in the world is the history you don’t know.’
- Julian Assange / Assange-phobia: the phobia of the US and NATO for being unveiled.
- More videos about the war in Ukraine: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDsR5P9Lkw3OWfPVecSMoR_iOLwwfVRoD
- See also my in Dutch written article: Russische trol?
- Video:
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