The Quote and Its Source

Putin said of Ukraine four days before Russia’s full-scale invasion: “Like it or not, take it, my beauty.” A reference to a vulgar Russian rhyme about necrophiliac rape from the Soviet-era band “Red Mold”: “Sleeping beauty in a coffin, I crept up and f**ked her. Like it, or dislike it, sleep my beauty.” International lawyers interpret this as “an intention to inflict similar destruction on Ukraine and a view of Ukraine as a corpse.”

Source: Sleeping Beauty in a Coffin

This passage appears in SIX locations across three manuscripts — the single most-repeated passage in the entire corpus. The author considers it the most important single piece of evidence for the intersection of Coercive Control, Gender Lenses, and Archetypal Disinfolklore. Putin’s invocation weaponises the Sleeping Beauty archetype: Ukraine is not a country with agency but a sleeping woman whose consent is irrelevant.

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