A Brotherly Enemy: Ukraine Through the Perspective of Putin’s Zetism
Journal: Kultura i Wartości
Year: 2023

This paper is an analysis of Putin’s anti-Ukrainian narrative. I argue that contemporary Russian culture is defined by the prevalence of highly traditionalist attitudes. These attitudes propagate the language of ideological confrontation with the West. I suggest the inclusion of the term ’zetism’ into scholarly literature, which has become a symbol of verbal and military aggression against Ukraine. This symbol arose spontaneously; it is represented graphically (the letter ’Z’) and placed on vari