The “Ukrainian Nazi” Stock Character

In Russian Disinfolklore “Nazis” belong to the Outer Realm. The Russian consumer of Russian Disinfolklore magically accesses the Inner Realm and becomes “Russian” when they rail against “Nazis.” You’re included in the Inner Realm just by virtue of angrily denouncing a category of Ukrainians which exists solely in Russian Disinfolklore. The far right vote in Ukraine is less than 1%, while it is far above 20% in Italy and France! Yet, in Russian Disinfolklore the very people I lived among were represented as wanting and requiring “liberation.”

Source: Disinfolklore (10)

Shows how the Inner/Outer Realm mechanism creates community identity: railing against the “Ukrainian Nazi” (an entirely fictional category) is the password that admits you to the Russian Inner Realm. The empirical data (1% far-right vote in Ukraine vs 20%+ in France/Italy) demolishes the factual basis.

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