Concealing Genocide in Plain Sight

The key to achieving what is an extraordinary, yet diabolical, feat of concealing genocide in plain sight, in an age of transparency like ours, is Russian Disinfolklore. If we are given one word to characterise Russia’s activities in Ukraine from March 2014 until now, the word I would choose is “Genocide.”

Source: Full Working Draft, Ch. 9

Satellites photograph every mass grave. Social media documents every atrocity. And yet: genocide concealed in plain sight. Disinfolklore is the mechanism — not by hiding the evidence, but by hiding the meaning of the evidence.

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