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Anti-Slavic sentiment
Anti-Slavic sentiment, also called anti-Slavic racism or Slavophobia, refers to different types of negative attitudes, prejudices, collective hatred or animosity, stereotypes, discrimination, and violence (economic, physical, political, psychological, verbal, etc.) directed at one or more ethnic groups of Slavic peoples. Accompanying racism and xenophobia, the most common manifestation of anti-Slavic sentiment throughout history has been the assertion that some Slavs are inferior to other peoples.
Anti-Slavic sentiment reached its highest point during World War II, when Nazi Germany and its collaborators classified most of the Slavs, especially the Belarusians, Croats, Czechs, Poles, Russians, Serbs, Slovenes, and Ukrainians, as "subhumans" (Untermenschen) and perpetrated a systematic genocide against them, murdering millions of Slavs through the Generalplan Ost and Hunger Plan.
Slavophobia also emerged twice in the United States. The first time was during the Progressive Era, when immigrants from Eastern Europe were met with opposition from the dominant class of Western European–origin American citizens; and again during the Cold War, when the United States became locked in an intensive global rivalry with the Soviet Union.
Slavophobia in Albania increasingly developed at the beginning of the 20th century, mostly through the work of the Franciscan friars [citation needed] who had studied in monasteries in Austria-Hungary, after the recent massacres and expulsions of Albanians by their Slavic neighbours.[unreliable source?] The Albanian intelligentsia proudly asserted, "We Albanians are the original and autochthonous race of the Balkans. The Slavs are conquerors and immigrants who came but yesterday from Asia." [unreliable source?] In Soviet historiography, anti-Slavism in Albania was inspired by the Catholic clergy,[citation needed] which opposed the Slavic people because of the role the Catholic clergy[citation needed] and Slavs opposed "rapacious plans of Austro-Hungarian imperialism in Albania."
In the 1920s, Italian fascists propagated animosity towards people from the neighboring Yugoslavia, especially the Croats, Serbs, and Slovenes. Among others, they fabricated many chauvinistic tropes, for example, claims that the Croats, Serbs, and Slovenes had "atavistic impulses," alongside perpetuating the made-up accusations that the Yugoslavs were conspiring on behalf of "Grand Orient Masonry and its funds." Additionally, some of these prejudices, stereotypes, and racial tropes were connected with anti-semitic conspiracy theories, such the belief that the Serbs were involved in a "social-democratic, masonic Jewish internationalist plot."
The leader of fascist Italy, Benito Mussolini, considered the Slavic race inferior and barbaric. Furthermore, he believed that the Croats posed an existential threat to Italy as they supposedly intended to seize Dalmatia, a region which was claimed by Italy, while he also claimed that the threat rallied Italians at the end of World War I: "The danger of seeing the Yugoslavians settle along the whole Adriatic shore had caused a bringing together in Rome of the cream of our unhappy regions. Students, professors, workmen, citizens—representative men—were entreating the ministers and the professional politicians." These claims often tended to emphasize the "foreignness" of the Yugoslavs by stating that they were newcomers to the area, unlike the ancient Italians, whose territories were occupied by the Slavs.
Count Galeazzo Ciano, Mussolini's son-in-law, and the Foreign Minister of Fascist Italy, whom Mussolini ordered to be executed in 1944, wrote the following entry in his diary:
Vidussoni comes to see me. After having spoken about a few casual things, he makes some political allusions and announces savage plans against the Slovenes. He wants to kill them all. I take the liberty of observing that there are a million of them. "That does not matter." he answers firmly.
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Anti-Slavic sentiment
Anti-Slavic sentiment, also called anti-Slavic racism or Slavophobia, refers to different types of negative attitudes, prejudices, collective hatred or animosity, stereotypes, discrimination, and violence (economic, physical, political, psychological, verbal, etc.) directed at one or more ethnic groups of Slavic peoples. Accompanying racism and xenophobia, the most common manifestation of anti-Slavic sentiment throughout history has been the assertion that some Slavs are inferior to other peoples.
Anti-Slavic sentiment reached its highest point during World War II, when Nazi Germany and its collaborators classified most of the Slavs, especially the Belarusians, Croats, Czechs, Poles, Russians, Serbs, Slovenes, and Ukrainians, as "subhumans" (Untermenschen) and perpetrated a systematic genocide against them, murdering millions of Slavs through the Generalplan Ost and Hunger Plan.
Slavophobia also emerged twice in the United States. The first time was during the Progressive Era, when immigrants from Eastern Europe were met with opposition from the dominant class of Western European–origin American citizens; and again during the Cold War, when the United States became locked in an intensive global rivalry with the Soviet Union.
Slavophobia in Albania increasingly developed at the beginning of the 20th century, mostly through the work of the Franciscan friars [citation needed] who had studied in monasteries in Austria-Hungary, after the recent massacres and expulsions of Albanians by their Slavic neighbours.[unreliable source?] The Albanian intelligentsia proudly asserted, "We Albanians are the original and autochthonous race of the Balkans. The Slavs are conquerors and immigrants who came but yesterday from Asia." [unreliable source?] In Soviet historiography, anti-Slavism in Albania was inspired by the Catholic clergy,[citation needed] which opposed the Slavic people because of the role the Catholic clergy[citation needed] and Slavs opposed "rapacious plans of Austro-Hungarian imperialism in Albania."
In the 1920s, Italian fascists propagated animosity towards people from the neighboring Yugoslavia, especially the Croats, Serbs, and Slovenes. Among others, they fabricated many chauvinistic tropes, for example, claims that the Croats, Serbs, and Slovenes had "atavistic impulses," alongside perpetuating the made-up accusations that the Yugoslavs were conspiring on behalf of "Grand Orient Masonry and its funds." Additionally, some of these prejudices, stereotypes, and racial tropes were connected with anti-semitic conspiracy theories, such the belief that the Serbs were involved in a "social-democratic, masonic Jewish internationalist plot."
The leader of fascist Italy, Benito Mussolini, considered the Slavic race inferior and barbaric. Furthermore, he believed that the Croats posed an existential threat to Italy as they supposedly intended to seize Dalmatia, a region which was claimed by Italy, while he also claimed that the threat rallied Italians at the end of World War I: "The danger of seeing the Yugoslavians settle along the whole Adriatic shore had caused a bringing together in Rome of the cream of our unhappy regions. Students, professors, workmen, citizens—representative men—were entreating the ministers and the professional politicians." These claims often tended to emphasize the "foreignness" of the Yugoslavs by stating that they were newcomers to the area, unlike the ancient Italians, whose territories were occupied by the Slavs.
Count Galeazzo Ciano, Mussolini's son-in-law, and the Foreign Minister of Fascist Italy, whom Mussolini ordered to be executed in 1944, wrote the following entry in his diary:
Vidussoni comes to see me. After having spoken about a few casual things, he makes some political allusions and announces savage plans against the Slovenes. He wants to kill them all. I take the liberty of observing that there are a million of them. "That does not matter." he answers firmly.