{"description": "russia-colonialism techniques used by Religious Frontier and the Fabrication of Historical Right (1550\u20131721), ATT&CK campaign C1104 (v1.1)", "name": "Religious Frontier and the Fabrication of Historical Right (1550\u20131721) (C1104)", "domain": "russia-colonialism", "versions": {"layer": "4.5", "attack": "", "navigator": "5.2.0"}, "techniques": [{"techniqueID": "T0024", "comment": "The government of the Tsardom of Muscovy used religious identity and the concept of protecting co-religionists as ideological cover for military expansion: historian Michael Khodarkovsky states that the diplomatic apparatus positioned the tsar as a \"universal Christian ruler who 'upheld the true Christian faith'\"(Citation: Russia's Steppe Frontier: The Making of a Colonial Empire 1500-1800 2002), while invasions were motivated by a \"divine obligation to rescue Orthodox Christians from infidel captivity\"(Citation: Russia's Steppe Frontier: The Making of a Colonial Empire 1500-1800 2002); as a result, as historian Michael Khodarkovsky summarizes, in the advance into new territories \"Moscow's military and political interests could no longer be separated from the ideological and theological rhetoric of expansion\"(Citation: Russia's Steppe Frontier: The Making of a Colonial Empire 1500-1800 2002), because of which the North Caucasus \"became a religious frontier\"(Citation: Of Christianity, Enlightenment, and Colonialism: Russia in the North Caucasus, 1550\u20131800 1999).", "score": 1, "color": "#66b1ff", "showSubtechniques": false}, {"techniqueID": "T0004", "comment": "The government of the Tsardom of Muscovy fabricated historical narratives to provide legal justification for the invasion of new territories: historian Michael Khodarkovsky points out that in diplomatic correspondence officials deliberately constructed fictitious claims that the Indigenous peoples of the Caucasus had allegedly, since ancient times, been Muscovite \"subjects in the Riazan region, who then fled from Riazan and settled in the mountains\"(Citation: Russia's Steppe Frontier: The Making of a Colonial Empire 1500-1800 2002).", "score": 1, "color": "#66b1ff", "showSubtechniques": false}], "gradient": {"colors": ["#ffffff", "#66b1ff"], "minValue": 0, "maxValue": 1}, "legendItems": [{"label": "used by Religious Frontier and the Fabrication of Historical Right (1550\u20131721)", "color": "#66b1ff"}]}