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With this new word, Russians express their opposition to Putin

With the announcement of the mobilization, a new word was born in Russia: "Mogilizazija".

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With this new word, Russians express their opposition to Putin

With the announcement of the mobilization, a new word was born in Russia: "Mogilizazija". It is a mixture of the two Russian words for "mobilization" and "grave". And shows the young Russians who are now being drafted into the war against Ukraine what they are supposed to be for – as cannon fodder. They are to be burned for the purposes of a war in which even the Russian professional army fails.

On the posters of the opponents of the war of aggression against Ukraine and in the opposition media in Russia, the word "Mogilisatiya" can be read instead of the term "Mobilizatiya". People in Russia have always had a dark sense of humour. Such neologisms have a long tradition in Russia. They are the demonstration of a people who have long since lost power over their everyday lives.

The first neologisms appeared in Russia as early as the 1990s. The most concise term is "privijazia" - ie privatization. It became the word "Prichvatatsija" - grab something, take. What was meant were the oligarchs who, with the privatization in Russia, have deprived the Russians of any economic basis.

Then there is the neologism "Dermokratija", which is made up of the words for crap ("dermo") and democracy. It means something like "the power of dung". In Russia, it was primarily used by the opposition press when assessing government activities.

In a state that no longer allows words for the protest, in which even holding up a blank piece of paper leads to arrest, the only option left to the population is to use a new language and new neologisms to make their protest clear.

Words like "Mogilizazija" are an expression of a resistance that seems weak, but maybe it isn't.

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