{"description": "russia-colonialism techniques used by Imposition of an Image of Backwardness and the \u201cCivilizing\u201d Mission (1721\u20131800s), ATT&CK campaign C1108 (v1.1)", "name": "Imposition of an Image of Backwardness and the \u201cCivilizing\u201d Mission (1721\u20131800s) (C1108)", "domain": "russia-colonialism", "versions": {"layer": "4.5", "attack": "", "navigator": "5.2.0"}, "techniques": [{"techniqueID": "T0006", "comment": "The government of the Russian Empire deliberately constructed an image of the Indigenous population as criminal savages: historian Michael Khodarkovsky records that in administration documents the highlanders were labeled as \"inconstant and treacherous,\" while their actions were explained by references to their \"predatory craft, to which they are predisposed by their very nature and upbringing\"(Citation: Of Christianity, Enlightenment, and Colonialism: Russia in the North Caucasus, 1550\u20131800 1999).", "score": 1, "color": "#66b1ff", "showSubtechniques": false}, {"techniqueID": "T0001", "comment": "The government of the Russian Empire justified expansion with ideas of enlightening undeveloped societies: historian Michael Khodarkovsky states the ambition of the metropole's officials \"to bring both Christianity and civilization to the 'wild and uncivilized' peoples along its borders\"(Citation: Russia's Steppe Frontier: The Making of a Colonial Empire 1500-1800 2002).", "score": 1, "color": "#66b1ff", "showSubtechniques": false}, {"techniqueID": "T0024", "comment": "The occupation administration of the Russian Empire used religious pretexts for expansion: historian Michael Khodarkovsky cites a memorandum by Governor-General P. S. Potemkin, who in 1784 declared that under the pretext of returning the highlanders to the faith and sending priests to them, the empire would be able to shed \"the light of divine bliss among all the peoples scattered in the mountains\"(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 Russian Empire fabricated historical accounts to provide legal justification for invasion: historian Michael Khodarkovsky points out that in 1748 and in the 1770s officials deliberately constructed fictitious claims that the Indigenous peoples of the Caucasus had allegedly been Christians in the past, in order to contest the claims of other empires and \"legitimize their efforts at their 're-Christianization'\"(Citation: Of Christianity, Enlightenment, and Colonialism: Russia in the North Caucasus, 1550\u20131800 1999).", "score": 1, "color": "#66b1ff", "showSubtechniques": false}], "gradient": {"colors": ["#ffffff", "#66b1ff"], "minValue": 0, "maxValue": 1}, "legendItems": [{"label": "used by Imposition of an Image of Backwardness and the \u201cCivilizing\u201d Mission (1721\u20131800s)", "color": "#66b1ff"}]}