Aleksandr Dugin, ideologist of fascism and rashism, philosopher
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Aleksandr Dugin is a Russian philosopher, political scholar, and ideologue of the “Russian world”, neo-Eurasianism, fascism and racism. Founder and leader of the “International Eurasian Movement”. He considers it his mission to create a “Eurasian superpower” at the expense of absorbing “neighbours”.
In January 2022, he declared that Russia was not an enemy of Ukraine and did not want to harm the Ukrainian people and destroy Ukrainian statehood. But after the start of the full-scale invasion, he said that Russia could not lose the war. He said that the alleged attack of the Russian Federation on Ukraine was “a fight against the unipolar world order, focused on the USA and NATO.”
He called on the Russian Federation to capture all of Ukraine and not stop until targets across the country were destroyed. According to him, “control over part of Ukraine will not be a victory for Russia.”
*The material was created in cooperation with the Center for Countering Disinformation at the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine
Main statements
1. He stated that Russia would try to seize all of Ukraine and “revive the empire” (February 24, 2022)
2. He expressed an opinion about the “superiority of the Russian people over the West” (February 24, 2022)
He called the West a “misunderstanding” and a “product of degeneration.” And Russia, which Dugin calls an “empire”, allegedly “doesn’t let the world end.”
3. He stated that the goal of the Russian Federation is to capture the entire territory of Ukraine (May 6, 2022)
According to the propagandist, the maximum goal of the aggressor country, Russia, is to control all of Ukraine, and the minimum goal is to capture the territories from Kharkiv to Odesa, which the Russian Federation invented the name “Novorossiya”.
4. He declared that the Russian Federation “will unite the three fraternal East Slavic countries” (July 2, 2022)
5. He declared that the Russian Federation’s military actions against Ukraine are a “war of heaven against hell” (October 25, 2022)
According to him, Ukraine is allegedly only a battlefield on which “Holy Russia” fights with “the forces of absolute world historical evil.”
6. He offered to kill Putin for the loss of Kherson (November 11, 2022)
He stated that it was the head of the Russian Federation who was responsible for the loss of Kherson by the occupiers, and for this failure, he deserved such a death as the “rain king”. (In the African cult, the Rain King was supposed to cause rain with his spells. If he did not cope with his task and a drought came – he was stoned to death. This cult was described in the book “The Golden Branch” by the British religious scholar James Frazer).
However, shortly after publication, Dugin deleted the post from his Telegram page.
