Stealth Genocide Model
On 11 March 2022 a group of Ukrainians, radicalised by Disinfolklore over the course of eight years and repurposed into Russian soldiers, crossed the Donets River to murder their fellow Ukrainians in Kreminna. This is a perfect encapsulation of the Russian model of Stealth Genocide.
Source: Kreminna Massacre
“Repurposed into Russian soldiers” — the verb captures the entire Disinfolklore mechanism. Stealth Genocide (a term coined by the author in September 2022) describes how Russia forces occupied populations to fight their own people, concealing the genocide behind the fiction of civil war. Schools, mass media, universities, and every aspect of occupied society was infiltrated by rhetoric that normalised hatred.
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