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A press conference announcement in 2015 gave an address: 'Heroes' of the Great Patriotic War Square, 9.' The Soviet Union expired in 1991, but in occupied Luhansk its memory walks. The ghost of 1945's victory is the backbone of the occupation's emotional architecture.
Every 9 May, in Russian-occupied Luhansk, tanks rehearsed on Theatre Square. The occupation — unrecognised, two years old, funded from Moscow — performed the oldest Indo-European sovereignty ritual: the warrior caste's parade before the sovereign. The grooves of Soviet childhood were re-cut into the occupation's emotional infrastructure.
Each 9 May across Russia and its occupied territories, citizens carry photographs of Great Patriotic War veterans in ordered processions. A genuine civic ritual captured, scaled, weaponised, exported. The embodied ritual archetypes the participant's body into the empire's body.
The Russian word 'karateli' names Nazi punitive units that massacred Soviet civilians 1941-45. Russian Disinfolklore applies it to contemporary Ukrainian forces — grammatically casting Ukraine as heir to the Nazi collaborators Ukrainian civilians were themselves killed by.