Stock Characters as Bogeymen

Anytime you see any term stemming from this stock character in Russian Disinfolklore called Stepan Bandera, you know you’re dealing with a Ruschist state-funded troll and/or victims of brainwashing. Never mistake an historical figure who also shares the name Stepan Bandera with this stock bogeyman actor in Russia’s Disinfolklore. These are bogeymen. These are meant to scare you. Their function is to embed, hack, trigger and piggy-back upon archetypes in our mind and to connect with archetypes we already have, which are deeply implanted through religious and linguistic memes.

Source: How Disinfolklore Communicates Archetypes

Tool 1 gives you the ability to distinguish between a real historical person and a Disinfolklore stock character who shares the same name. The “Bandera” in Russian Disinfolklore is not the historical Stepan Bandera — it is a bogeyman, a stock villain, as two-dimensional as the Big Bad Wolf.

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