Hints and metaphors
Narrative argumentation- Options and details of argumentation
"Statements that lack any clear arguments, contain hints and metaphors, references to archetypes and stereotypes. For instance, statements about eliminating “the Brown Plaque”, “Hitler’s rot”, “Nazi enclave”, “Nazi nest”, “Ukrainian version of the Gaza Strip”, cutting off “cancer tumor”, destroying a dangerous bioreactor, destroying “a totalitarian cult”, destroying Ukraine because this is “a state of Basayevs,” calls “to chop off grubby hands that paw about our past”, “to stamp out the plaque”, “to eliminate hydra”.
Statements that Ukraine should be “cleaned off the life”, “extirpated”, “… let’s finish with the entire Banderite Land…”
Statements that missile attacks of Ukraine are “a medical treatment”.
Statements that “idea driven independence champions are demons”
Statements about those who were not made away in the forests during the Great Patriotic War. “In the end, it is necessary to get it, to etch it, and you know, that’s how to squeeze out a blister, an abscess, a boil, because if something remains in the boil, it will rot later, gangrene can begin. But now it will rot in Europe.”
“What is a need for it? Nazi Ukraine on the world map. What is this? What healthy body wants to have an ulcer on its body that festers, bleeds and stinks, infects and eventually kills the whole body?""
""To raise the flag in Kiev”
“To cleanse Ukraine from bastards”
“Well, taking care of Ukraine now is to clean it, of those worms, of those ticks that suck blood from it today.”
“What are the war objectives? To destroy the enemy’s army and to conquer their territory so that there will be no resources for the fascist bastard to raise his head again after some time.”
“The hangdog must be crushed”
“Well, let’s get rid of the demonic creature” “to drive the devil out of these beasts”
“Cleansing only by fire” “And the weapons that Russia has concentrated today will be intended not only for the cleaning of our brotherly Ukrainian people, but also for NATO”
“our task is to continue the legacy of our fathers and grandfathers and to send today’s Bandera’s admirers to a personal meeting with this same Bandera”
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