Routine: Provoke the Distress, then, Purport to Salve it.
Færytale Beginning VI: Counter Disinfolklore ~ Controlling War Magic
This sense of being under siege is an essential component of the Russian strategy of purporting to be the rescuer of the damsel whom Russia itself had led into a state of distress.
We will see in later chapters how Russian Disinfolklore managed to convince Ukrainians in Russia-occupied Ukraine that it was Ukrainians who were threatening them, not the Russian occupiers.
In occupied Ukraine, as elsewhere, the Russian Big Bad Wolf managed to manipulate the minds of its victims into becoming blind to the real threat (the Russians).
Russian Disinfolklore even convinced Ukrainians to fight against a mythical threat that Russian Disinfolklore had conjured into being.
In a May 2023 interview Russian occupier leader Pavel Gubarev, who was sanctioned by the United States and the United Kingdom in 2014 for participating in Russia’s occupation of Ukraine, stated:
“Now there is no such category at all as an adult male aged twenty-five to fifty-five years… That is, in fact, Donetsk is a deserted (of adult men) territory. Those who did not have time to leave were mobilized by Russians and among them were huge losses. And these people continue to be ‘mowed down’ in senseless frontal attacks, the so-called ‘meat assaults’.”
To be clear: this is the testimony of someone who supported and supports Russia’s occupation of Donetsk. Donetsk city hosted the European Cup football championships in 2012. It was a normal Central European city. Many of those who had eagerly queued for tickets to the match held there were destined to be brainwashed and die just a few years later as executioners of Russia’s genocide against their fellow Ukrainians.
I mention this to highlight how, in the words of Ukrainian author Anatoly Kuznetsov in his first-hand account of the German Nazi occupation of Kyiv from 1941 and their murder of one million Ukrainian Jewish community members:
“I have not told about anything exceptional, but only about ordinary things that were part of a system; things that happened just yesterday, historically speaking, when people were exactly as they are today.”
If these things that happened on that bridge, in Luhansk, and in Donetsk while I was in Ukraine could be provoked into being by Disinfolklore, then, there is no reason on Lugh’s earth to believe, they will not happen in the peaceful village, town, city, county or living room in which you are reading my words today. Indeed, perhaps they’re already happening. But without the Lenses of Disinfolklore it’s hard to notice just how stories are subverting what is right…
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