Aggressors may use propaganda and harsh censorship to replace objective facts with fabricated narratives. Instilling a distorted lens, in which acts of occupation are presented as salvation and the blame for suffering is shifted onto the local population itself, ensures the ideological legitimization of domination.
| ID | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| C0090 | Information Blockade Around the Chornobyl Disaster (1986) |
Creation of an artificial picture of radiological well-being and the criminal, forced marching of people into the May Day demonstrations in Kyiv under radioactive fallout to mask the catastrophe[1]. |
| C1151 | Instrumentalization of a Natural Disaster by the Colonizers: Paskevich and Rosen Declare the Earthquake "God's Punishment of the Nokhchi People for Disobedience to the Empire" (1830) |
In 1830, during an ongoing earthquake, General Rozen 4th, who commanded the troops on the left flank of the Caucasus Line (the eastern section of the empire's fortified border along the Terek and Sunzha rivers), on the orders of commander-in-chief Paskevich sent proclamations out to the auls, instilling in the people an artificial picture of the world: the natural disaster was declared God's punishment for resisting the empire. The historian Ya. Z. Akhmadov wrote about how this lie sounded among the Nokhchi: "supporters of the Russian orientation claimed that the earthquake was caused by the wrath of Allah over the attempt at an armed uprising"[2]. The imperial historian Volkonsky acknowledges the source of the suggestion: the commander-in-chief "ordered General Rozen 4th to spread entirely opposite rumors among the people, namely, that the earthquake had been sent down by God upon the Mountain Peoples for their ill-intentioned acts against the Russian government"[3]. The imperial historian Potto recorded the act: Rozen "resorted to proclamations in which he sought to assure the people that the earthquake had been sent down upon them as punishment for their treason and their ill-intentioned acts against the Russian government"[4]. |
| S0011 | Moscow Patriarchate |
The implantation of an artificial narrative of an unbreakable historical bond between Kyiv and Moscow, which was meant to replace real history and serve Muscovite political ends: the author "proves the Muscovite tsar's right to rule in Kyiv"[5]. |
| S0021 | Propaganda |
Creation of an artificial picture of radiological well-being and the criminal, forced marching of people into the May Day demonstrations in Kyiv under radioactive fallout to mask the catastrophe[1]. |
| C0006 | Publication of the "Synopsis" (1674) |
The implantation of an artificial narrative of an unbreakable historical bond between Kyiv and Moscow, which was meant to replace real history and serve Muscovite political ends: the author "proves the Muscovite tsar's right to rule in Kyiv"[5]. |
| S0010 | Regular Army |
In 1830, during an ongoing earthquake, General Rozen 4th, who commanded the troops on the left flank of the Caucasus Line (the eastern section of the empire's fortified border along the Terek and Sunzha rivers), on the orders of commander-in-chief Paskevich sent proclamations out to the auls, instilling in the people an artificial picture of the world: the natural disaster was declared God's punishment for resisting the empire. The historian Ya. Z. Akhmadov wrote about how this lie sounded among the Nokhchi: "supporters of the Russian orientation claimed that the earthquake was caused by the wrath of Allah over the attempt at an armed uprising"[2]. The imperial historian Volkonsky acknowledges the source of the suggestion: the commander-in-chief "ordered General Rozen 4th to spread entirely opposite rumors among the people, namely, that the earthquake had been sent down by God upon the Mountain Peoples for their ill-intentioned acts against the Russian government"[3]. The imperial historian Potto recorded the act: Rozen "resorted to proclamations in which he sought to assure the people that the earthquake had been sent down upon them as punishment for their treason and their ill-intentioned acts against the Russian government"[4]. |
| G0009 | Russian Empire |
In 1830, during an ongoing earthquake, General Rozen 4th, who commanded the troops on the left flank of the Caucasus Line (the eastern section of the empire's fortified border along the Terek and Sunzha rivers), on the orders of commander-in-chief Paskevich sent proclamations out to the auls, instilling in the people an artificial picture of the world: the natural disaster was declared God's punishment for resisting the empire. The historian Ya. Z. Akhmadov wrote about how this lie sounded among the Nokhchi: "supporters of the Russian orientation claimed that the earthquake was caused by the wrath of Allah over the attempt at an armed uprising"[2]. The imperial historian Volkonsky acknowledges the source of the suggestion: the commander-in-chief "ordered General Rozen 4th to spread entirely opposite rumors among the people, namely, that the earthquake had been sent down by God upon the Mountain Peoples for their ill-intentioned acts against the Russian government"[3]. The imperial historian Potto recorded the act: Rozen "resorted to proclamations in which he sought to assure the people that the earthquake had been sent down upon them as punishment for their treason and their ill-intentioned acts against the Russian government"[4]. |
| G0008 | Tsardom of Muscovy |
The implantation of an artificial narrative of an unbreakable historical bond between Kyiv and Moscow, which was meant to replace real history and serve Muscovite political ends: the author "proves the Muscovite tsar's right to rule in Kyiv"[5]. |
| G0010 | USSR |
Creation of an artificial picture of radiological well-being and the criminal, forced marching of people into the May Day demonstrations in Kyiv under radioactive fallout to mask the catastrophe[1]. |