The Use of Genocide in the Formation of State Propaganda: Russian Practice and its Impact on World Peace

Nina Popovych; Alisa Lukashenko; Roman Lavretski; Oleksandr Lakhno; Bohdan Bohdan

doi:10.63931/ijchr.v7iSI1.2.452

Authors

Nina Popovych Zhytomyr Polytechnic State University, Zhytomyr, Ukraine https://orcid.org/0009-0001-2228-3465
Alisa Lukashenko Paris Lodron University Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5136-5657
Roman Lavretski Lviv State University of Life Safety, Lviv, Ukraine https://orcid.org/0009-0008-3275-1569
Oleksandr Lakhno Poltava V.G. Korolenko National Pedagogical University, Poltava, Ukraine https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0312-0799
Bohdan Bohdan Interregional Academy of Personnel Management, Kyiv, Ukraine. https://orcid.org/0009-0004-0287-6994

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.63931/ijchr.v7iSI1.2.452

Keywords:

genocide, global security, narrative, national ideology, Ukrainian people

Abstract

The critical threat of the risk of genocide became especially acute in the late twentieth and first third of the twenty-first century and has become a major influence on global security. The study is devoted to the specifics of the genocidal policy of the Russian Federation as part of the concept of the formation of Russian national ideology. The research methodology included analysis and synthesis, systematization, comparison, generalization, and abstraction. The analysis of the rhetoric of Russian officials and publications in the media and mass media allowed us to conclude that the idea of genocide is present, supported by the general national position of the Russian Federation and actively financed by the federal budget. The retransmission of the official ideology in the context of anti-Ukrainian materials contains calls for “restoring historical justice” and “denazification” of Ukrainians. The study examines the system of Russian “denazification” measures, which are accompanied by censorship, ideological pressure, and the destruction of its own political opposition against the background of the functioning of cross-cutting ideas of genocidal policy. The author substantiates the presence of a consistent policy of the Russian Federation towards Ukrainians, which has signs of genocidal intentions. The article proves that genocidal propaganda within the political narrative of the Russian Federation has a suggestive character, which ensures the consistent formation of ideological hatred towards the Ukrainian people in society. The destructive critical consequences of the genocidal ideology of the Russian Federation for the security of global geopolitical development are substantiated.

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