Creating Russophobia: From the Great Religious Schism to Anti-Putin Hysteria
By Guy Mettan
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hy do the USA, UK and Europe so hate Russia? How is it that Western antipathy, once thought due to anti-Communism, could be so easily revived over a crisis in distant Ukraine, against a Russia no longer communist? Why does the West accuse Russia of empire-building, when 15 states once part of the defunct Warsaw Pact are now part of NATO, and NATO troops now flank the Russian border? These are only some of the questions Creating Russophobia investigates. Mettan begins by showing the strength of the prejudice against Russia through the Western response to a series of events: the Uberlingen mid-air collision, the Beslan hostage-taking, the Ossetia War, the Sochi Olympics and the crisis in Ukraine. He then delves into the historical, religious, ideological and geopolitical roots of the detestation of Russia in various European nations over thirteen centuries since Charlemagne competed with Byzantium for the title of heir to the Roman Empire. Mettan examines the geopolitical machinations expressed in those times through the medium of religion, leading to the great Christian schism between Germanic Rome and Byzantium and the European Crusades against Russian Orthodoxy. This history of taboos, prejudices and propaganda directed against the Orthodox Church provides the mythic foundations that shaped Western disdain for contemporary Russia. From the religious and imperial rivalry created by Charlemagne and the papacy to the genesis of French, English, German and then American Russophobia, the West has been engaged in more or less violent hostilities against Russia for a thousand years. Contemporary Russophobia is manufactured through the construction of an anti-Russian discourse in the media and the diplomatic world, and the fabrication and demonization of The Bad Guy, now personified by Vladimir Putin. Both feature in the meta-narrative, the mythical framework of the ferocious Russian bear ruled with a rod of iron by a vicious president. A synthetic reading of all these elements is presented in the light of recent events and in particular of the Ukrainian crisis and the recent American elections, showing how all the resources of the West’s soft power have been mobilized to impose the tale of bad Russia dreaming of global conquest.
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Why do the USA, UK and Europe so hate Russia? How it is that Western antipathy, once thought due to anti-Communism, could be so easily revived over a crisis in distant Ukraine, against a Russia no longer communist? Why does the West accuse Russia of empire-building, when 15 states once part of the defunct Warsaw Pact are now part of NATO, and NATO troops now flank the Russian border? These are only some of the questions Creating Russophobia iinvestigates. Mettan begins by showing the strength of the prejudice against Russia through the Western response to a series of events: the Uberlingen mid-air collision, the Beslan hostage- taking, the Ossetia War, the Sochi Olympics and the crisis in Ukraine. He then delves into the historical, religious, ideological and geopolitical roots of the detestation of Russia in various European nations over thirteen centuries since Charlemagne competed with Byzantium for the title of heir to the Roman Empire. Mettan examines the geopolitical machinations expressed in those times through the medium of religion, leading to the great Christian schism between Germanic Rome and Byzantium and the European Crusades against Russian Orthodoxy. This history of taboos, prejudices and propaganda directed against the Orthodox Church provides the mythic foundations that shaped Western disdain for contemporary Russia. From the religious and imperial rivalry created by Charlemagne and the papacy to the genesis of French, English, German and then American Russophobia, the West has been engaged in more or less violent hostilities against Russia for a thousand years. Contemporary Russophobia is manufactured through the construction of an anti-Russian discourse in the media and the diplomatic world, and the fabrication and demonization of The Bad Guy, now personified by Vladimir Putin. Both feature in the meta-narrative, the mythical framework of the ferocious Russian bear ruled with a rod of iron by a vicious president. A synthetic reading of all these elements is presented in the light of recent events and in particular of the Ukrainian crisis and the recent American elections, showing how all the resources of the West’s soft power have been mobilized to impose the tale of bad Russia dreaming of global conquest. “By hating Russia, one hurts oneself. Swiss journalist Guy Mettan pieces together the reasons of detestation of the Kremlin and of a rhetoric that goes back to Napoleonic times despite the long list of aggressions perpetrated in the meantime by the West. And he explains why pushing Moscow toward Asia is a very serious error.” —Panorama, Italy “Like Saddam Hussein’s mythical weapons of massive destruction in 2003, Peter the Great’s fake will has been used to justify the aggressions and invasions that the Europeans, and now the Americans, still carry out against Russia.” —Libération, France
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"...an expose of political techniques by the masters of disinformation" -- Le Temps, Switzerland
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Guy Mettan is a journalist and Swiss politician. Former director and editor-in-chief of the main Geneva newspaper Tribune de Geneve, he is presently the executive director of the Geneva Press Club and columnist for various Swiss newspapers. Member the Geneva Parliament since 2001, he was the speaker of the Parliament in 2010. Author of several books on Switzerland and international Geneva, he wrote a successful book on western russophobia published by Editions des Syrtes in 2015. There are now French, Italian, Russian, Serbian and Swedish editions of this title, in addition to this one.
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The author needs a proof reader for his endnotes section and page 257 where he called Joe Biden the "very conservative Vice President".
But the book has a view of the U.S. from outside of our educational & political systems( why we selectively defend governments).
It's taken me back to a Minute Men concert and someone was giving away "U.S out of Central America" stickers. I didn't know what that really meant. I wish young people were that aware of what the U.S. is doing in Ukraine.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent work on the West vs
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Excellent work on the West vs. Orthodox Christian schism at the root of a Russophobia that still haunts Europe today.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Interesting read
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It is an interesting book to read in this day and age. Offers a nice overview of the history of the East - West relationship, but... it could be more detailed on certain aspects. It does indicate that Orwell's 1984 wasn't really about any particular country, more applicable to... western media. Other more academic books deal with that media matter, but this one is a good starting point for the "Westerner" looking East (if anybody is looking East at all). Strongly recommended for an open mind reader. For others... well, they will find lots of excuses for not agreeing with the content. That's what this book explains anyway.
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5.0 out of 5 stars An antidote againts The Western Russophobia
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Worth reading. Very good coverage of modern affairs. What is missing - a bit deeper excourse into Catholic Drang Nach Osten against Orthodox, oppression of Orthodox in occupied western Russian lands.
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interesting historical analysis
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Kevin J. Barrett
5.0 out of 5 stars Exposing the deception that is pushing us toward World War 3
Reviewed in the United States on September 5, 2018
Why does the Western mainstream incessantly demonize Putin and Russia? Guy Mettan's Creating Russophobia offers a detailed and convincing answer. Mettan begins by listing the many incidents and issues that have been wildly misreported (with massive anti-Russia spin at best, outright lies at worst) in the West. Having established the existence of such strong prejudice against Russia, he argues that the roots of this unfortunate attitude go back roughly 1,000 years. Like Islamophobia, Russophobia is an age-old Western prejudice with a religious basis: It goes all the way back to the Great Schism between the Eastern and Western Christianity. And like Islamophobia, Russophobia seems to stem from a certain narrow-mindedness, fanaticism, refusal to see the Other's point of view, and desire for absolute domination that lurks in the dark heart of that imaginary construct we call "the West."
Today, Mettan argues, the modern histories of French, German, and British Russophobias have converged in, and been subsumed by, an American-dominated Russophobia whose hallmark is a kind of Orwellian "cognitive manipulation" based on linguistic subterfuge. This US-led demonization of Russia via newspeak, Mettan says, uses "readymade language elements" such as those laid out in the notorious "Israel Project 2009. Global Language Dictionary," a hasbara manual for Zionist propagandists.
Is there any hope for peaceful coexistence with Russia, given the Russophobic forces currently in command? Perhaps...if we make an all-out effort to amplify the voices of sanity. Guy Mattan's is one of the most important of those voices.
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1.0 out of 5 stars Russophobia? Truth or Myth?
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This is a book which would gladden Putin’s heart. On pg. 105, that “Byzantium also contributed a writing. . . . . which were to prove prodigiously useful to the young Russian nation.” First of all, Mr. Mettan, there was no Russian nation in the 10th century. There was a hamlet barely called Moscow. Rus ( which is not Russia) was the kingdom of Volodymyr in the land now known as Ukraine. From there, Volodymyr’s sons spread out to the other areas of the kingdom, but they did not go to Moscow. Check extant maps and no where will you find the name Russia. Later, the lands around Moscow grew and it became a Moscovite (not Russian) empire.
The name Russia was first used by Peter I, centuries later.
If Mr. Mettan would balance his reading of Russian history with the histories of the nations which border Russia, then he would have a clearer idea why other countries dislike Russia. In Ukraine, for instance, when it was under Russian rule, it was forbidden to speak, read or write Ukrainian. A child could not pass exams unless they knew Russian. Ukrainian press was forbidden. The same thing happened when Russia occupied Poland, Lithuania, Estonia, and Latvia.
On oh. 128, Mettan says that “At the end of the 20th century, Polish-born Pope John Paul II was still trying to send missionaries to Ukraine to no avail.” John Paul didn’t send missionaries to Ukraine because there was no need. The Ukrainian Catholic Church revived because the Ukrainian Catholics, which Russia tried to suppress (I have hundreds of documents to prove it), refused to become Orthodox under the Moscow Patriarchate. I was in L’viv in 1969 and saw with my eyes and spoke to the people in Ukrainian how hard they held to their faith in the underground church.
If there is a Russophobia, then one has to only look at the actions of this country invading another country, suppressing its language, literature, and history. Russia, especially Putin, are the ones promoting Russophobia.
I’m not excusing the horrors that have been perpetrated by other countries, but one thing to remember: only Russia has garnished the name: Russophobia.
This book lacks references other than Russian and definitely has a biased view which many of the Russia historians, of which I have read, still espouse. Sad.
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Alexey Tuzikov
5.0 out of 5 stars highly recommended
Reviewed in the United States on July 20, 2017
A much needed book in the age of bias and bubble. The author makes a great argument that Western tendency for world domination is reponsible for scapegoating countries that dare to behave independently.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Demystifies West's treatment and attitude to Russia
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A very readable, meticulously researched examination of the West's treatment and representation of Russia over the past 10 centuries or so, including our own.
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A detailed, referenced account of the centuries old propaganda war waged against Russia, and the West's need to have an enemy.
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Despite the title, which suggests a reasoned analysis of a legitimate problem, this is nothing but a polemic. I read a couple of chapters, skimmed a couple more to see if it got better and, realising it did not, gave it away.
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