# Nashism > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Nashism > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Nashism.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nashism > Source revision: 1253471257 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|Post-Soviet Russian political neologism}} {{other uses}} {{distinguish|Nazism|Nationalism}} '''Nashism''' ({{langx|ru|нашизм}}) and '''Nashists''' are [post-Soviet](/source/post-Soviet)Mikhail Epstein, "Types of New Words:An Attempt of Classification, reported that the conference "Русская неография (к 40-летию научного направления)", С.-Петербург, Институт лингвистических исследований, 23-25 октября 2006 " Russian political [neologism](/source/neologism)s derived from the word "наши" ("[those who are] ours", i.e., those of the [ingroup](/source/ingroup)). The word is used to refer to various forms of [worldview](/source/worldview) based on the primacy of "ours" over the "outsiders" (comparable to ''[la cosa nostra](/source/cosa_nostra)'', "our thing"). Various Russian [journalist](/source/journalist)s, [politician](/source/politician)s and [political scientist](/source/political_scientist)s define this word differently, as described below. The words "nashists" and "nashism" have also been used in reference to the [Nashi](/source/Nashi_(youth_movement)) political movement with the word "ours" in its title. ==Nevzorov's "Nashi"== The word was first coined by [Alexander Nevzorov](/source/Alexander_Nevzorov), the anchor of the Russian TV program ''[600 Seconds](/source/600_Seconds)''.Mikhail Geller, "Rossiiskie zametki, 1991-1996", Moscow, 1998, {{ISBN|5-87902-027-4}} {{in lang|ru}} In January 1991 Nevzorov produced a [documentary](/source/Documentary_film) and a controversial series of TV reports from [Vilnius](/source/Vilnius) titled '''''Ours''''' ('''''Nashi'''''), about the actions of the Soviet ''[spetsnaz](/source/spetsnaz)'' during the [January Events](/source/January_Events), when the Soviet military forces attempted to crush the declared independence of [Lithuania](/source/Lithuania), in which Nevzorov was markedly sympathetic to Soviet actions.[http://www.bu.edu/iscip/vol2/jensen.html ISCIP – Perspective] As a freelance journalist Jules Evans wrote, reporting from the Soviet Union:
"the journalist Aleksander Nevzorov appeared on TV, standing in front of the demonstrators in Lithuania holding a [Kalashnikov](/source/AK-47). To the music of [Richard Wagner](/source/Richard_Wagner) (a German), Nevzorov declared the birth of a new Idea – ‘Nashi’. “Nashi is a circle of people – let it be enormous, colossal, multimillions – to whom one is related by common language, blood, and [motherland](/source/motherland).”[http://www.eurasianhome.org/xml/t/opinion.xml?lang=en&nic=opinion&pid=230 "the Hunt for a National Idea"]
In November 1991 Nevzorov established the People's Liberation Movement "[Nashi](/source/Nashi_(1990s_nationalist_group))", which he defined as "a united front of resistance to the anti-national politics of the current administration of Russia and other Union Republics of the former USSR". Its badge contained the contour of the USSR with the words "НАШИ" (ours) within.{{Cite web|url=http://www.rau.su/observer/N21_93/21_06.HTM|title = www.rau.su/observer/N21_93/21_06.HTM - Сервис регистрации доменов и хостинга *.RU-TLD.RU}} Of prominent participants in the movement was [Viktor Alksnis](/source/Viktor_Alksnis). Nevzorov's "Nashi" was short-lived. The naturally coined word "Nashists" in reference to the supporters of the "Nashi" movement immediately invoked the rhyme with the word "[fascist](/source/fascist)s", as a hint to the imperial position of the movement in support of the indivisibility of the Soviet Union, in particular, their justification of the use of military force to this end. ==Youth Movement "Nashi"== right|thumb|250px|"''Nasha'' Army" youth military troops in Smolensk, near Belarus. {{main|Nashi (youth movement)}} The pun "nashism/fascism" is often used by the political opponents of "Nashi". In particular, it was liberally used after the anti-Estonian manifestations of "Nashi" in relation to the events around the [Bronze Soldier of Tallinn](/source/Bronze_Soldier_of_Tallinn). A popular anti-Nashi slogan is "Nashism Shall Not Pass!" ("Нашизм не пройдет!"[http://www.svoboda.org/ll/polit/0405/ll.042105-1.asp "Пикет у штаба молодежного движения 'Идущие вместе'"], ''[Radio Freedom](/source/Radio_Freedom)'', April 21, 2005 {{in lang|ru}}), an adaptation of the slogan "[They shall not pass](/source/They_shall_not_pass)". ==Corporatism== [Andrei Illarionov](/source/Andrei_Illarionov) describes the emerging [corporatism](/source/corporatism) in Russia as power in hands of [Silovik](/source/Silovik) power structures, the current incarnation of [Chekism](/source/Chekism), whose ideology he defines by the word "nashism" ("ours-ism") in its most general sense: preferential treatment of "ours". In an article initially printed in ''[Kommersant](/source/Kommersant)'' and then reprinted several times in the West, he writes:Andrei Illarionov, [http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/01/25/opinion/edandrei.php "When the state means business"], ''[International Herald Tribune](/source/International_Herald_Tribune)'', January 25, 2006
"Ours-ism" does not know national or ethnic boundaries. The former chancellor of a foreign country {{bracket|[Gerhard Schröder](/source/Gerhard_Schr%C3%B6der)}} is made a member of the corporation and becomes "our man in Europe." Meanwhile, a Russian businessman {{bracket|[Mikhail Khodorkovsky](/source/Mikhail_Khodorkovsky)}} who created a company that brought billions into the national treasury turns out to be an "other" and is exiled to the depths of Siberia.
==See also== * [Ruscism](/source/Ruscism) ==References== {{Russian nationalism}} Category:Russian nationalism Category:Soviet phraseology Category:Politics of Russia Category:1990s neologisms --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Nashism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nashism) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nashism?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.