{"id":26743,"date":"2025-06-09T05:50:01","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T02:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rito.riigikogu.ee\/?p=26743"},"modified":"2025-05-30T11:57:03","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T08:57:03","slug":"politicizing-history-in-the-kremlins-strategic-conspiracy-narratives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rito.riigikogu.ee\/en\/previous-issues\/no-51\/politicizing-history-in-the-kremlins-strategic-conspiracy-narratives\/","title":{"rendered":"Politicizing history in the Kremlin\u2019s strategic conspiracy narratives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"TextSwifttaandetaINGLISE lead\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">In the Russian Federation\u2019s strategic communication, history is far more than a neutral record of past events\u2014it is a potent political tool. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"TextSwifttaandetaINGLISE\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Vladimir Putin\u2019s now-iconic 2005 declaration that the dissolution of the Soviet Union was the \u201cgreatest geopolitical catastrophe of the 20th century\u201d is emblematic of how the Kremlin employs memory politics to craft cohesive identity narratives, justify aggressive foreign policy, and mobilise both domestic and international audiences. Historical events are framed within emotionally charged conspiracy theories, in which the West systematically falsifies history to undermine Russia. Key narratives such as the \u201cvictory myth\u201d and the \u201ccollapse trauma\u201d are ritualistically repeated and serve dual purposes: uniting citizens through collective grievance and elevating Russia\u2019s global status through glorification of its past. This manipulation of history functions within the broader concept of strategic culture, wherein national insecurity and perceived victimhood shape not only identity but also defence policy and geopolitical ambitions.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Russian Federation\u2019s strategic communication, history is far more than a neutral record of past events\u2014it is a potent political tool. Vladimir Putin\u2019s now-iconic 2005 declaration that the dissolution of the Soviet Union was the \u201cgreatest geopolitical catastrophe of the 20th century\u201d is emblematic of how the Kremlin employs memory politics to craft cohesive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[184],"class_list":["post-26743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-no-51","topic-focus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rito.riigikogu.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rito.riigikogu.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rito.riigikogu.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rito.riigikogu.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rito.riigikogu.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26743"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rito.riigikogu.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26744,"href":"https:\/\/rito.riigikogu.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26743\/revisions\/26744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rito.riigikogu.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rito.riigikogu.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}