Ukrofascist

English

Etymology

From Ukro- +‎ fascist.

Noun

Ukrofascist (plural Ukrofascists)

1. Synonym of Ukronazi.
   • 2014 April 1, Julie Fedor, Andriy Portnov, Andreas Umland, Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society: Sociographic Essays on the Post-Soviet Infrastructure for Alternative Healing Practices (Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society)‎^[1], volume 1, number 1, Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 2:

     […] and through to TV news reports and talk-shows recounting phantasmic atrocities committed by “ukro-fascists”, from cannibalism to child crucifixion to the “genocide” of Russians in East Ukraine.⁵

   • 2015 May 8, Maria Antonova, “Putin’s Great Patriotic Purge”, in Foreign Policy:

     In many Russian circles, the narrative surrounding the conflict in eastern Ukraine borrows from the rhetoric of World War II, with talk of “liberating” cities now under Kiev’s control and even retaking Kiev from U.S.-backed “Ukrofascists.”

   • 2017 June 2, Lincoln Pigman, “Inside Russia’s National Liberation Movement With Pavel Merzlikin”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):

     She held a poster stating that [Belarusian President] Alexander Lukashenko is working with “Ukrofascists.”

   • 2022 February 28, Stanislav Aseyev, In Isolation: Dispatches from Occupied Donbas (Harvard Library of Ukrainian Literature)‎^[2], Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 58:

     For starters, we need to say what this voice is not. It's certainly not the naive slogans about a “junta” and “Ukrofascists” that are repeated like a mantra in the DPR ranks. They had to work their way to that.

Usage notes

Mostly used by Russian supporters of Russia's occupation of Crimea and eastern Ukraine, and the Russian 2022 invasion of Ukraine.