The Effect of Globalization on the Establishing of National Identity in the Wartime: Challenges and Threats

In: Ukrai͏̈noznavstvo, Heft 3(84), S. 8-26

Abstract

Globalization has become an undeniable fact of our reality in recent decades. Focus is placed on the fact that globalization is a process that removes national borders, integrates national economies, cultures, technologies and management and creates complex relationships and interconnections mediated through diverse flows involving people, capitals, ideas, etc. Globalization creates risk of national identity loss, at the same time traditional forms of identity are violated, it is evident that mechanism of continuity of identity is missing.The full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation into Ukraine created a new reality, strengthening the sense of political unity and state uniqueness. The real motives of Russian aggression are the destruction of the Ukrainian people, their identity and the deprivation of their right to independent development. Ukrainians have proven to themselves and others that they exist as a nation having civil and national identity and are capable to defend their independence, territorial integrity, and unity.Over the years Russia has used identity and history as a weapon against Ukraine, implementing policy aimed at creating a distorted image of the Ukrainian people's identity and their desire for independence, which is realized through the spread all over the world ideologemes based on false and manipulative identification of Ukrainian patriotism with «Nazism» or other misanthropic ideologies.Russia's war against Ukraine is a war for the identity. Russian aggression is genocide against the Ukrainian people, the destruction of their identity and culture.