“Like It Or Not, Take It, My Beauty”

The character whom I call Duncey Putin said of Ukraine four days before Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022: ‘Like it or not, take it, my beauty.’ Duncey Putin was archetyping Ukraine as a woman who needed to submit to her man (Russia). The “vulgar Russian rhyme” Putin was referencing has obvious Disinfolklore connotations — Sleeping Beauty is one of the primary archetypal characters in Indo-European culture and folklore. The song comes from a Soviet-era Russian band called “Red Mold.” The exact song lyric is: “Sleeping Beauty in a coffin, I crept up and f**ked her. Like it, or dislike it, sleep my beauty.”

Source: Learning to See Abstract Concepts

International lawyers correctly interpreted this as a reference to necrophiliac rape — an expression of genocidal intent. Archetypal Disinfolklore Literacy is what enabled that interpretation: the recognition that a head of state was reaching into the folklore archive for a Sleeping Beauty/corpse motif.

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