Junta (governing body)


Junta is a Spanish, Portuguese and Italian term for a civil deliberative or administrative council. In English, Military Junta predominantly refers to the government of an authoritarian state run by high-ranking officers of a military.
In Italy a giunta is the civil executive of regions and of municipalities.
An earlier, different use of the term in English was the Whig Junto, a political faction in early 18th-century Britain.
It is not related to the Sanskrit word , which refers to the public/people/masses.
Since 2014 the term is used as derogatory for political propaganda by the Russian authorities against the government of Ukraine such as Ukrainskaya junta, Kievskaya junta, Banderovskaya junta, and others. It was created to portray Ukraine as a total absurd. The apogee of radicalization of term ends at such words like Ukro-benderovskaya junta to signify something as the most anti-humane.

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