THE FEATURES OF THE DETERMINATION OF THE CRIME OF AGGRESSION AGAINST UKRAINE

Abstract

The article is devoted to the characteristics of certain groups of determinants of planning, solving and waging an aggressive war. The following cultural and psychological determinants are highlighted, described and explained: modern Russian fascism as a complex cultural and psychological phenomenon, lack of historical reflection at the level of mass social practices, preservation of imperial commemoration, paternalism, practices of resentment; the state of social inadequacy as detachment of thinking from reality and activity; compulsion to preserve and deepen the utopian-ideological inadequacy with real dehumanization, widespread practices of depopulation, combined with collective polytrauma; feeding the defense consciousness of the population; the institutionalization of the redefinition of evil and the attack on Western civilization. Among the political factors, the usurpation of power, the lack of formation of civil society institutions, the lack of real electoral rights, real political opposition and de facto one-party system, the lack of free, independent media and mass communication, and censorship are highlighted and characterized.