The Dark Turn: Folklore as Weapon

The same mechanism that created democratic nations was eventually turned to darker purposes:

Disinfolklore works quite as well as folklore did in the nineteenth century. The folklore movement model of creating cohesive national cultures which was launched by German nationalist Herder in 1777 was copied all over Europe.

Source: Counter Disinfolklore ~ Controlling War Magic

Serbia’s use of epic poetry to inspire genocide. Nazi Germany’s weaponisation of volkisch mythology. Soviet active measures. Russia’s modern Disinfolklore Propagation Apparatus. The full story of this weaponisation is told in History of Disinfolklore.

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