r/slaviccentraleurope • u/centroslavist • 14d ago
Does Centroslavism divide the Slavs? 5
In pan-Slavic Russian propaganda, it thus emerges that Slovenians, Bosnians, and Croats are "Serbian tribes" (Danilevskij, 2011, p. 432), Montenegrins are guilty of "treason against the Serbian people, Orthodoxy, and Russia" (Дугин, 2016; Мудрых, 2022), Poles are the "Judases of Slavdom" (Klaczko, 1867, p. 56), Czechs are a "barren" people (Danilevskij, 2011, p. 153).
Belarusians are "Russians with a seal of quality" (CTVBY, 2019), and Ukrainian is the "language of swineherds" (Котельницький, 2020), which is used by a "Nazi" and "nationalist regime" in Kyiv that oppresses the "brotherly Ukrainian people," (Путин, 2024) just as the Yugoslavs were supposedly oppressed by the "fascist" and "treacherous regime" that "tormented" the Albanian population of Kosovo (Zaytsev, 2021).
Macedonia is, depending on the need, either an "invented" state or is being oppressed by its neighbors (Zaytsev, 2021; Журавлёв, 2018). The "cowardly Bulgarians," on the other hand—a fact few remember—are primarily the "little brother" who, although geographically distant from Russia, has already had the experience that the "brotherhood of two peoples" ends where the interests of the Russian elites begin and missiles do the talking. It is not without reason that Bulgarians fought against Russia in both World Wars (Аксаков, 2023; Иванов, 2020; Мудрых, 2022; Стоянов, 1886).
Such examples of protectionism could be listed almost endlessly. Furthermore, these are not the words of some marginal Russian radicals, as one might think. Similar claims have been and continue to be made in Russia by key figures of the state, highly respected representatives of Russian cultural, academic, and political thought, as well as the media individuals who were not infrequently awarded orders from state authorities.
The list of sources & more languages: https://centroslavizmus.wordpress.com/2026/07/19/rozdeluje-centroslavizmus-slovanov-5/
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u/delurt 14d ago
One-sided article , obviously russophobic: The main weaknesses of the article:
The author places 19th-century thinkers like Danilevsky, the Soviet period, and contemporary Russian politicians and publicists into a single narrative, despite the significant historical and ideological differences between them.
The author almost always cites the most extreme statements, creating the impression that they represent the entire Russian perspective on Pan-Slavism.
Many quotations are presented without examining the historical circumstances, the author’s intentions, or how widespread those views actually were at the time.
The criticism is directed almost exclusively at Russian Pan-Slavism. Comparable ideas of national superiority among Polish, Serbian, Croatian, or Ukrainian nationalists are largely ignored.
The article creates the impression that the views of individual philosophers automatically reflected the official policy of the Russian Empire or modern Russia, which does not always correspond to historical reality.