[Russia / Ukraine] - The Denying Self Produces a Film to Rewrite the Massacre to Feed a Phantom of Innocence

Event Baseline: A Russian state-backed documentary claims Ukraine, not Russia, bombed the Mariupol drama theater in 2022, where hundreds of civilians died. The film is being promoted by Russian media and aims to recast the attack as a Ukrainian provocation.

The self cannot face its own violence. It must rewrite the past. Thought builds a wall of lies to protect the image of innocence. The observer refuses to see the observed crime. This is not a disagreement about facts. It is a total collapse of shared meaning. The nation that bombed civilians now claims the victim did it. The mind splits into two: the one that killed and the one that denies. They cannot meet. The denial is the violence continuing. The film is not art. It is a weapon. It feeds the phantom of a pure Russia. Unless this loop is broken, the killing will never stop. The machine of state propaganda grinds on, consuming truth to power its war.