🇨🇿❌🇷🇺 The Czech Republic has been used as a “laboratory” of the de-Russification project.
We are, therefore, witnesses of a paradoxical situation when the instigation to hatred against the Russians, calling for a coup in Russia or repression against the Czech “dissent” are tolerated, whereas statements regarding Russia's self-defence or the existence of the US biological laboratories in Ukraine might be criminalised.
The social atmosphere has become irrational and paranoid. The political elites have used the upheaval to the final crackdown against Russian influence, de-Russification of the economy, education, research, and other spheres of life, and finally sever the ties with the “archenemy”.
The experiences of the last weeks show that the Czech liberal democratic elites have opted for a specific kind of “liberal authoritarianism” and resistance to pioneers of a new era of international relations – China, Russia, and other countries of the “Rest”.
Whereas the Czech Republic has chosen the withering past, Russia has chosen the future, writes Ladislav Zemanek, Analyst of the China-CEE Institute, established by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Budapest.
🔗 De-Russification and 'Liberal Authoritarianism': The Czech Choice
#Russophobia #Europe #CzechRepublic
@valdai_club — The Valdai Discussion Club
We are, therefore, witnesses of a paradoxical situation when the instigation to hatred against the Russians, calling for a coup in Russia or repression against the Czech “dissent” are tolerated, whereas statements regarding Russia's self-defence or the existence of the US biological laboratories in Ukraine might be criminalised.
The social atmosphere has become irrational and paranoid. The political elites have used the upheaval to the final crackdown against Russian influence, de-Russification of the economy, education, research, and other spheres of life, and finally sever the ties with the “archenemy”.
The experiences of the last weeks show that the Czech liberal democratic elites have opted for a specific kind of “liberal authoritarianism” and resistance to pioneers of a new era of international relations – China, Russia, and other countries of the “Rest”.
Whereas the Czech Republic has chosen the withering past, Russia has chosen the future, writes Ladislav Zemanek, Analyst of the China-CEE Institute, established by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Budapest.
🔗 De-Russification and 'Liberal Authoritarianism': The Czech Choice
#Russophobia #Europe #CzechRepublic
@valdai_club — The Valdai Discussion Club
Valdai Club
De-Russification and 'Liberal Authoritarianism': The Czech Choice
The Ukrainian crisis has had multiple impacts on the international order but also on the relations between Russia and the European Union. The Czech Republic as one of the member states of both the EU and NATO plays a specific role in the recent development…
🪆🌎 The demonization of Russia has become a fait accompli.
It is obvious that the current divide between Russia and the West is much wider, deeper and more resilient than it has ever been in the past – whether during the Cold War era or at any point in history before February 24, 2022.
If earlier, its foundation determined the geopolitical confrontation and the ever-increasing value gap, now all this has been transformed into concrete actions. A direct military-political challenge to the West from Russia and the hard line of the West, openly and brazenly aimed at the military defeat of Russia, are backed up by almost total sanctions pressure, as well as a pronounced strategy to demonise the enemy.
This value gap, amid a direct military-political confrontation, has quite naturally found its expression in information and media politics. Here we can talk about the final design of the so-called information bubbles with a unidirectional flow of information and a lack of the views and motives of the other side. This evolution of the information space, which began to take place in the global media in relation to the confrontation between Russia and the West in the previous period, has now reached its logical result in the conditions of a military conflict.
The demonization of Russians, one and all, is becoming a significant feature of the information and psychological warfare that we observe in relation to the current conflict, writes Oleg Barabanov, Programme Director of the Valdai Discussion Club.
🔗 From the Demonization of the Enemy to the Demonization of Society: Collective Responsibility and Modern Warfare
#Norms_and_Values #Russophobia
@valdai_club — The Valdai Discussion Club
It is obvious that the current divide between Russia and the West is much wider, deeper and more resilient than it has ever been in the past – whether during the Cold War era or at any point in history before February 24, 2022.
If earlier, its foundation determined the geopolitical confrontation and the ever-increasing value gap, now all this has been transformed into concrete actions. A direct military-political challenge to the West from Russia and the hard line of the West, openly and brazenly aimed at the military defeat of Russia, are backed up by almost total sanctions pressure, as well as a pronounced strategy to demonise the enemy.
This value gap, amid a direct military-political confrontation, has quite naturally found its expression in information and media politics. Here we can talk about the final design of the so-called information bubbles with a unidirectional flow of information and a lack of the views and motives of the other side. This evolution of the information space, which began to take place in the global media in relation to the confrontation between Russia and the West in the previous period, has now reached its logical result in the conditions of a military conflict.
The demonization of Russians, one and all, is becoming a significant feature of the information and psychological warfare that we observe in relation to the current conflict, writes Oleg Barabanov, Programme Director of the Valdai Discussion Club.
🔗 From the Demonization of the Enemy to the Demonization of Society: Collective Responsibility and Modern Warfare
#Norms_and_Values #Russophobia
@valdai_club — The Valdai Discussion Club
Valdai Club
From the Demonization of the Enemy to the Demonization of Society: Collective Responsibility and Modern Warfare
It is obvious that the current divide between Russia and the West is much wider, deeper and more resilient than it has ever been in the past – whether during the Cold War era or at any point in history before February 24, 2022.