RATIONALIZATION AS A WAY OF FORMING AND IMPLEMENTING NAZI DISCOURS IN HITLER’S GERMANY AND MODERN PUTIN’S RUSSIA

Abstract

This article attempts to explore the origins, factors, and methods of establishing German Nazism in the 1920s and 1930s and the modern, modern Russian Putin Nazism. Special emphasis is placed on rationalization as a way of forming and implementing the practice of both German and Russian Nazism. It is shown that the formation of the Nazi discourse was related to socio-economic, political, historical, psychological, cultural, etc. factors. Rationalization as a way to keep the population in submission and a means of justifying criminal Nazi policies in both Hitler's Germany and Putin's Russia was carried out through the use of school and university education, the involvement of professors in Nazi propaganda, and the active adaptation of psychological, historical, philological, philosophical, etc. theories and positions. That is, Putin's Nazism, like Hitler's, strives to be scientific. Сontradictory, double-minded thinking, which is designed to help justify V. Putin's imperial ambitions and war in Ukraine. Hitler's Nazism and Putin's are very similar, most importantly, in essence – Nazism, regardless of the country of formation and spread, is the exaltation, elevation, and affirmation of the exclusivity of one's people, nation, and ethnicity over all others, which are declared inferior. This is violence against "alien" people and society, contempt for human lives, their destruction, in general, contempt and destruction of universal human values, therefore Nazism is dangerous. Therefore, all progressive humanity and its governments must unite efforts to overcome it in any form.