Cultural Assimilation: Cultural Chauvinism

As part of cultural assimilation, aggressors may systematically impose, through state institutions and media, the idea of the unconditional superiority of the metropole's culture over the culture of the colonized society. Cultivating a contemptuous attitude toward the art, traditions, and customs of the local population instills in it an inferiority complex, stimulating mass voluntary renunciation of one's own roots for the sake of successful integration into the aggressor's society.

ID: T0115.003
Sub-technique of:  T0115
Tactic: Persistence
People: Ukrainians
Version: 1.0
Created: 21 April 2026
Last Modified: 21 April 2026

Procedure Examples

ID Name Description
C0050 Destruction of Ukrainian Societies and Segregation (1906–1910)

Official recognition of the enlightenment of the Indigenous people as a hostile act: "A decree to the Senate stating that educational work in Ukraine is harmful and dangerous for Russia"[1].

C0054 Financial Russification of Schools (1978–1983)

Ideological elevation of the metropole's language above all others: «The Tashkent conference — 'The Russian language is the language of the friendship of peoples'»[1].

S0008 Government

Official recognition of the enlightenment of the Indigenous people as a hostile act: "A decree to the Senate stating that educational work in Ukraine is harmful and dangerous for Russia"[1].

S0008 Government

Ideological elevation of the metropole's language above all others: «The Tashkent conference — 'The Russian language is the language of the friendship of peoples'»[1].

S0008 Government

Implanting colonial symbols in public space: the erection of the monument to Bohdan Khmelnytsky in Kyiv in 1888. The monument was constructed by the empire as a symbol of the unity and submission of Little Russia under the tsar's rule[2].

C0065 Monumental Propaganda and Cultural Chauvinism (1888)

Implanting colonial symbols in public space: the erection of the monument to Bohdan Khmelnytsky in Kyiv in 1888. The monument was constructed by the empire as a symbol of the unity and submission of Little Russia under the tsar's rule[2].

G0009 Russian Empire

Official recognition of the enlightenment of the Indigenous people as a hostile act: "A decree to the Senate stating that educational work in Ukraine is harmful and dangerous for Russia"[1].

G0009 Russian Empire

Implanting colonial symbols in public space: the erection of the monument to Bohdan Khmelnytsky in Kyiv in 1888. The monument was constructed by the empire as a symbol of the unity and submission of Little Russia under the tsar's rule[2].

G0010 USSR

Ideological elevation of the metropole's language above all others: «The Tashkent conference — 'The Russian language is the language of the friendship of peoples'»[1].

References

  1. Михаил Зыгарь. (2023). Война и наказание: Как Россия уничтожала Украину.