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Rashism

Rashism is the alternative form of Ruscism.

Meaning of Ruscism

Proper noun

Ruscism

  1. (derogatory, neologism, slang) Russian fascism, Russianism, Great Russian chauvinism; the ideology of Russia, seen as fascism or as fascist.
    • Pro-Ukrainian commentators also used the word Rashizm. Derived from Rasha (from the English “Russia”), combined with the Russian fashizm, and perhaps best translated as “Ruscism,” this term is . . .2015, Elizaveta Gaufman, “Memory, Media, and Secularization: Russian Media Framing of the Ukrainian Crisis,” in Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society (→ISSN), v 1, n 1, pp 160–61

Origin of Rashism

Borrowed from Ukrainian ра́шизм (rášyzm), Russian ра́шизм (rášizm); originally formed from Ра́ша (Ráša, “Russia (derogatory, slang)”) + фаши́зм (fašízm, “fascism”).

Questions about Rashism

What is Rashism the alternative form of?
Rashism is the alternative form of Ruscism.

Words near Rashism in the dictionary

  1. RAship
  2. rashiphal
  3. RAships
  4. Rashir
  5. rashis
  6. Rashism
  7. rashist
  8. rashists
  9. Rashkover
  10. Rashleigh
  11. rashleighite

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Rashism (page history and authors); Ruscism (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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