The Walk-In Story

I address You as a guarantor of security for Donbass population. On 15.04.2016 I received a phone call from a phone of my dear people, namely my common law spouse [X], who lives with her under aged daughter at the address: [Address]. Military men of Pravy Sektor of Ukraine phoned me, and demanded from me to have to come to Stanitsa Luhanska settlement on 16.04.2016, otherwise (their exact wording) they will cut my common law spouse into pieces.

Source: Disinfolklore

Russia’s intelligence service in occupied Luhansk had sent a hand-written letter from a supposed walk-in to the MGB (the Russian occupiers’ internal security service — so-named to conjure up the folk memory of the Stalin-era forerunner of the KGB). The Walk-In said his “common law wife and her underage daughter” were about to be “cut into pieces” by a Ukrainian “Nazi.” He asked the OSCE — as “guarantor of security” — to intervene.

Something, intuitively, sounded artificial about the linguistic formula “common law wife and her underage daughter.” The author had already realised that he perceived part of reality through cognitive lenses (archetypes) that had entered his mind as a small child from folktale-inspired stories. Here, Russian Disinfolklorists were leaning into this aspect of Indo-Europeans’ cognition and riffing off what Karl Jung suggested are the primordial archetypal identities of the Mother and the Maiden.

This is the founding document of Disinfolklore.

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