User:Caerula Sanguis/Timofeï Sergeïtsev

Timofeï Sergueïtsev (in russian Тимофей Сергейцев) is is a Russian philosopher associated with Moscow State University.

Biography

He joins the Zinoviev Club to augment the cultural  influence of the russian world in Europa. He has published many articles against the influence of United States of America and NATO the since 2014.

After worked in 2004 for a long period as a political consultant for the old president of Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovych, and in 2012 for the russian millionaire Mikhaïl Prokhorov, he's known in April 2022 as of the main ideologists and theorician of the "dezanification" of Ukraina as showed by the russian president, Vladimir Poutin as the main objectiv of the russian-ukrainian war begun in february 2022. . For Sergeyitsev, denazification actually means de-Ukrainization, because the elites and the Ukrainian army are Nazis who must be eliminated, and the people of Ukraine have been infected by Nazi ideology and must be corrected; thus Ukraine, an invention of "Western totalitarianism" must be dismembered and for the most part incorporated into Russia.

Ideology

His name has begun to be publicly known with the russian invasion of Ukrainia by Russia, declenched the  24 Th February on the order of the president of russian federation, Vladimir Poutin.  

The 3th April 2022, the official press agency, Ria Novotsi, directly directed by the russian ministery of information, which is too in charge of propagand activities, published a action plan "For the next tewnty five years" writed by Timofei Sergeivetz himself.

In this document published under the title of " What must do Russia with Ukraine ", Sergeivetz describes how to neutralize the ukrainian government juged as too occidental and his supports inside the civil population by re using the Kremlin's theory that Ukrainia is directed by a nazi regim, manipulated by the occident to harm Russia.

Calling for an ideological repression, he writes that " the (nazi) Elite should be eliminated. Its re education is impossible. The social swamp, which has actively or passively sustened this Elite by its action or inaction, should survive to the horrors of war in order to assimilate the experience as historic lesson of its expiation of its culpability".

Progam details

Considering as a unsubstantiated postulate or proved, that the ukrainian civil population is mainly Nazi or has links with Nazi ideology, and is, in the russian ideology, passively by his sustain or actively in armed forces, responsable of a genocide of russian population, he described the the measures to be adopted for a political and cultural reeducation with a censure.

- Liquidation of ukrainian Nazi armed forces (we means by this all armed forces in Ukraine), and the military infrastructure, informational which sustend their activities.

- The formation of an autonomous people's government and a police (defense and public order) in the liberated territories in order to protect the population from the terror of the underground Nazi groups;

-The installation of a Russian information space;

-Removal of teaching materials and banning of educational programs at all levels that contain Nazi ideological attitudes;

-Mass investigations aimed at establishing personal responsibility for war crimes, crimes against humanity, dissemination of Nazi ideology and support for the Nazi regime;

-Purge, disclosure of the names of collaborators of the Nazi regime and their forced labor to rebuild the infrastructure destroyed as punishment for their Nazi activities (among those who will not be subject to the death penalty or imprisonment);

- Adoption at the local level, under the authority of Russia, of the main regulatory acts of denazification "from below", prohibiting any kind and form of revival of Nazi ideology;

-The creation of memorials, memorials and monuments to the victims of Ukrainian Nazism and the perpetuation of the memory of the heroes who fought against it;

-The inclusion of a set of anti-fascist and denazification norms in the constitutions of the new people's republics;

-Creation of permanent denazification organizations for a period of 25 years.

It also indicates that an entire generation of Ukrainians will be subjected to "denazification" measures for a period of 25 years.

Analysis

Sergeytsev's program on Ukraine is exposed by the Franco-Russian translator André Markowicz during the program "La Grande Table des Idées" on the french public radio, France Culture on June 3, 2022.

The concept of genocide

For the history professor at Concordia University and one of the founders of the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies (MIGS), Franck Chalk points out: "The fact that Putin is trying to canceling out the Ukrainians as a group and its consideration of incorporating Ukrainian territory into the Russian Federation are also warning signs of possible future genocide.”

The text, the original text of which is available in russian on the website Clio Texte, is based on the typically totalitarian process of a methodical inversion of language. Any Ukrainian refusing the Russian invasion is indeed designated as a Nazi and accomplice in a genocide of the Russian people.

The projected project to desukrainify Ukraine through the physical elimination of its elites, the destruction of mental integrity through the re-education of the popular masses who refuse annexation by Russia, the eradication of any democratic European identity and the transfer of population clearly resembles a typically genocidal project within the meaning of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide established by the United Nations (UN) in 1948.

Here, the notion of genocide is used by Timofeï Sergeïtsev, and by the Russian power in general, to designate the alleged process which would have been instituted by the Ukrainians and directed against the Russians. Russian propaganda actually uses it in a role reversal exercise where the victim of the invasion, here the Ukrainian population, must appear as the executioner of the Russian population whose genocide would designate the insidious destruction of Russia. In 2014, a major communication campaign was deployed by the Russian authorities during the invasion of Crimea following the same process.

The french and geographer diplomat, Michel FOUCHET, indicates that Ukraine is seen by the russian power as a element of the russian defense system (especially for geographical reasons) which should be controled ou neutralizated.

Furthemore, he analyses that this conflict appears as the mark of a Russia blocked and stuck its own past as imperial power which cannot image whitout Ukraina, and at war against the ukrainian sovereign nation-state whose own futur is more and more attracted by European world.

For Timofeï Sergeivetz, the democratic pluralism from the Occident is equally for him, assimilated as a Nazi totalitarism.

The use of the term Nazi

The french russian historian Galia Ackerman, author of the book : the immoral regiment, the sacred war of Vladimir Putin", which is a analysis from the instrumentalization of history by russian power, indicates equally the using of this semantic of Nazi par russian authorities isn't a new thing. She emphasizes that Joseph Stalin employed this term against the persons who were asking for more freedoms and democracy. This was also the case with Marshal Tito (1892-1980), the dirigeant of Yougoslavia (from 1953 to 1980 who was designated as a Nazi by the russian power altrought he fought against the  german army during the second World War.  

She emphasizes too that "in 1969, when the russian tanks invaded the Czechoslovakia, it was not said that the Czechoslovaks were Nazis, but it was still said that it was a question of preventing an invasion of Czechoslovakia by the German Nazis. We talked very easily about fascists or Zionist Nazis. In short, anyone who was against the Soviets automatically became fascists or Nazis.

It also recalls that in the territories which were taken over and controlled by the Soviet power (including in particular the Baltic States, Poland, Romania, Czechoslovakia) there were purges, deportations, targeted assassinations and trials. The Nazi dictatorship was replaced by the repression of communist power. However, this vision of history, shared by the whole of Europe which was occupied by the Soviets, is totally intolerable for the Russians..

Indeed, as indicated by the associate and doctor of philosophy, Michel Eltchaninoff, no historical work in Russia has been carried out on the crimes of the Soviet period and in particular Stalinist. This led part of the Russian population in a movement of nostalgia in the face of the socio-economic and military decay of the country in the 1990s to regret and even idealize the USSR, forgetting in passing censorship, repression, the absence of freedoms, ideological pressure, difficulty of travel and internment of political opponents in psychiatric hospitals.

Galia Ackerman also points to ideological and cultural roots: "It's a very emotional question for this regime, with this insistence on Kyiv as the mother of Russian cities, because it's the cradle of orthodoxy. Ideologically, the "The Russian Empire needs Ukraine, it cannot be formed with Kazakhstan or Kyrgyzstan. The key to restoring the empire is Ukraine. They do everything to control with local collaborators, who, of course, will show up. It's inevitable".

Michel Fournet emphasizes too that the term of Nazi was used by  Staline in the years thirty against the russian opponents about his policy of repression against the koulaks.

Similarly, Jean Francois Bouthors in an article of September 30, 2022 on the Desk Russia site recalled that the Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaïa, assassinated on October 7, 2006 at her home, wrote in her book published in 2003 entitled "Tchéchénie, le déshonneur russe" that on May 9, 2002, Victory Day in Russia, that President Valdimir Putin at a reception in the Kremlin had called "Chechen terrorists" "Nazis" and that no pity could be given to those who were not not "with us".

The reminder of the Nazi aggression, by using the term Nazi as Russian President Vladimir Putin did on Monday February 21, 2022, allows the current Russian power to place itself on the one hand as the heir of the USSR which was among the victors of the Second World War in 1945 and on the other hand, to justify its current territorial expansion on the independent Ukraine since 1991 whose identity and specific culture it denies.

The measures detailed

For the french lecturer in History, Cecile Douhunaud, emphasizes parallelly that the period en 25 years means the process of denazification is seen as long time process writing in a deformed vision of history.

For the french lecturer in contemporary history and specialist in the Soviet Union, Francoise Thom, indicates that the exposed plan, far from being a simple war, aims in reality to carry out the liquidation of the Ukrainian nation by Russification of its population.

She demonstrates that the territory of the ex Ukraine state will be divised in popular republics on the models of Donesk and Louhansk. The use of forced Labor as indicated in the program means the re-establishment of the organisation of goulags on the ukranian territory.

She also analyzes in the first months of the invasion of Ukraine les different measures created as the episodes of mass terror, the systematic rapt and detention of local polical elits of the towns, deportation of womens and childrens in Russia, the creation of fitration's camps to filter ukrainian people compatible with the russian ideology. She demonstrates that it is not a question of atrocities or exactions due to the Russian military, but on the contrary the deliberate implementation of a policy of re-education by terror of the Ukrainian people.

Francoise Thom exposes too that the creation of an russian agency of denazification

inside the global structure of the Rossotrudnichestvo (Federal Russian agency for cultural cooperation) means a total political control from Russia on Ukraine and a definitive and complet lost of the independence and sovereignety for this one.

She also underlines that the thesis supported by Timofeï Sergeïtsev according to which the "brother people" of Ukraine would be victims of the oppression of a Nazi power installed in Kiev and supported by the West only asked to rise up as soon as the Russia's allegedly extending a helping hand is in truth belied by the facts and demonstrated by the reality of intense Ukrainian resistance.

Finally, she analyzes that Timofei Sergeyitsev associates "Nazism" and "Europeanism". The parallel "de-Europeanization" of Ukraine and Russia is only a prologue, as Russian political scientist Vladimir Mojegov suggests, which is really aimed at all of Europe: "Our goal in Ukraine is not to displace the anti-Russian focus 1,000 km to the west, but to create on our western borders a bridge and a springboard towards a new Europe, not towards the current Europe of chaos and decadence, but towards the Europe of Tradition ".

The finality

For the french website, les humanités, it indicates that the article of Timofeï Sergeïvetz   announces for the first time that the war leaded by Valdimir Putin isn't only a war against the Ukraine but in reality a war against the european values (equality, state of right, democracy, respect of the minority, rule of law, respect for human rights, including those of minorities).

In the vision of Timofeï Sergeïvetz, the Europe and Occident are seen fundamentaly as toxin and responsable of a civilisationnal  collapse against which Russia should resist. The war in Ukraine , not only of a war of territory, is finally for one of Putin's closest ideologues, is in reality a war of civilisation.

• Timofeï Sergueïtsev, « Ce que la Russie doit faire avec l'Ukraine » (Что Россия должна сделать с Украиной), Ria Novosti, 3/04/2022.

[[Category:Russian philosophers]] [[Category:WikiProject Europe articles]] [[Category:WikiProject Russia articles]]