Russian: a murderers’ language

Employing a language as the medium for spreading genocidal propaganda, making a language into a weapon of war and a ‘justification’ of genocide do not leave this language unscathed. It is rapidly transformed into a murderers’ language. The German and Austrian Holocaust of the Jews and the Roma made German into an odious Mördersprache. And this designation awaits the Russian language in the long shadow cast by the genocidal mass murders in Bucha and a host of other localities across Ukraine under Russian occupation. The Russians are now busy fashioning their language into a iazyk ubiits, another murderers’ language.