SCP-054-UA

NOTICE FROM THE MEMETICS AND INFORMATIONAL THREATS DIVISION

The document contains a dangerous destructive memetic agent. Personnel must familiarise themselves with the PROTECT-UA-54 protective memetic agent before proceeding.

Make sure that you have an analgesic containing acetylsalicylic acid in the immediate vicinity.

EXPOSURE TO PROTECT-UA-54 CONFIRMED. THE DOCUMENT WILL LOAD AUTOMATICALLY.

Item #: SCP-054-UA

Typical message¹, spread by the infected with SCP-054-UA.

Object Class: Keter

Special Containment Procedures: Foundation's Internet bots are to continuously monitor the network for any manifestations of SCP-054-UA and remove them. Foundation’s agents, integrated into the mass media and political organisations, are to expunge all manifestations and references to SCP-054-UA.

Individuals affected by SCP-054-UA are subject to immediate seizure and isolation. Individuals in the first and second stages of the infection are subject to forced treatment and reintegration into society. Persons who have reached the third stage of the infection, as well as persons in the first and second stages of the infection, whose treatment was deemed ineffective, are subject to termination or further use in research, per decision of the head of the host facility.

Only individuals who have undergone special protective memetic training are allowed to work with the object.

Description: SCP-054-UA is a destructive memetic agent of selective action that can be transmitted in audio, visual and audiovisual formats. The memetic agent mostly targets marginalised populations and elderly, except for those whose views can be described as lying within the ideologies of radical Ukrainian nationalism.

SCP-054-UA has a cumulative effect, and its destructive influence is directly proportional to the duration of the exposure. As a result, negation of the object’s effects and treatment of the affected individuals become more complicated over time. Although the external manifestation of the SCP-054-UA infection may vary slightly, depending on the individual's views, it generally follows an established scenario of three stages of infection.

First stage: Lasts from a week to a month. The infected individual begins to actively search all available sources for the information related to the narratives that describe the political and social system of the Ukrainian state as radical right, systematically discriminating and violating the rights of the Russian-speaking population, and links the Ukrainian people to Nazi collaboration during the World War II. For example, the following formulations are common:

• На Украине фашисты и бандеровцы ущемляют русских.²
• Запад это Гейропа и Пендосия.³

At the end of the first stage, the subject begins to visit Internet resources with pro-Ukrainian, or, in case of sufficient knowledge of the language, pro-Western information, and leave there provocative comments, engaging in so-called "trolling"⁴. Interruption of the exposure at this stage and subsequent intensive memetic therapy has demonstrated efficacy in 88% of cases, leading to complete neutralisation of SCP-054-UA and return of the affected to normal life.

Second stage: Lasts from two to six months. The affected individual refuses any alternative sources of information other than state-controlled media and radically pro-Russian Internet resources⁵. In addition, new narratives appear among the infected subjects, supplementing the existing ones:

• Русский народ — избранный народ.⁶
• Все страны вокруг нам должны, ведь это мы их создали.⁷
• Мир держится на особой духовности России.⁸

These narratives, together with those that prevailed in the first stage, the infected individual tries to spread to as large an audience as possible. To do this, they use appropriate reasoning, which, however, is mainly based on pseudo-scientific theories and unreliable sources. Towards the middle of the second stage, the subject appears uncompromising and rejecting of any alternative ideas. This symptom is actively progressing and reaches its peak in the third stage. Interruption of the exposure at this stage, combined with intensive memetic therapy, showed efficacy in 41% of cases.

Third stage: Maximum duration not detected. The affected person goes from agitation to active actions, mental and physical attacks on people with an alternative point of view. At this stage, it is useless to engage in any discussions with SCP-054-UA-1, trying to prove errors in their judgments, because, in any case, the infected eventually turns to personal insults. The following is added to the list of narratives:

• Путин хороший, это на местах воры.⁹
• Россия должна собрать все бывшие земли.¹⁰
• Все преступления русских режимов прошлого это ложь Запада.¹¹
• Россия находится в кольце врагов, которые делают всё, чтобы нам жилось хуже, хотят нас уничтожить и вообще виноваты во всём.¹²

In long-lasting cases, sometimes the idea of Русские это потомки ариев, которые должны бороться против жидомасонов¹³ may appear, with such derivatives as that of Russian and Sanskrit being the same language and so on. However, people with this case history are considered unsane even among other infected, and, as a result, they gather in small but particularly aggressive groups. Interruption of the exposure and memetic therapy have not shown efficacy in the treatment of individuals in whom the infection has developed to the third stage.

Object's Origin: There are substantiated suspicions¹⁴ that the object was commissioned by the government of the Russian Federation from the Logos Corporation, in collaboration with one of the departments of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation¹⁵, in order to strengthen its ideological control over both its own population and citizens of other countries who sympathize with the ideological concepts of the so-called "Russian world"¹⁶. The available data suggest that the first version of the agent was launched in February 2014, and the final modern version has been released in June of that year. The Department of Memetics and Informational Threats has also confirmed repeated adjustments to its action, which may indicate monitoring of its effectiveness by the developers and ongoing support for its work.

Addendums:

+ Dr. Yakym on SCP-054-UA — Level 3 security clearance required.

My comment on SCP-054-UA and its connection to the Pax Russica

Although in no way I am a specialist in this field, but I will share my opinion. SCP-054-UA, or “Our father – Bandera”¹⁷ – as it has been cleverly nicknamed by our employees, is an interesting “fruit”. All of you are aware of my past and of my employment prior to the Foundation. I am not saying that this meme is from those times, as it would be untrue, but I can’t help but note that it is using the same principles and only slightly reworked narratives. “Circle of enemies”, “the government is always right”, “we are the last place of peace and spirituality standing against the decaying West”, “the West spreads lies about us” – all these principles have been known back in Stalin’s days and are being actively propagated even now. After all, independently of the territory or environment, propaganda can’t change its nature, which is expressed in the attempts to form public opinion, influence people’s emotions and will, incline them to certain actions¹⁸.

So why are we surprised? If the old ways worked well, then why reinvent the wheel? Apparently, the FSS RF thought the same when launching these agents. However, I must say that it was done either by a genius or by a complete idiot. All because SCP-054-UA is fully compatible with the old Soviet agents and works great with them in a team. Have you ever wondered why SCP-054-UA is so effective against retirees? This could be called a negligence by the developer, who did not even bother to change the principle of operation, but everything points to the fact that the agent was specially selected for this purpose. Combined with the remnants of Soviet ideas and agents, it gained such power that Goebbels would give a standing applause. To fuse communism, Orthodoxy, tsarism, nationalism, chauvinism, militarism, the desire for peace, and in some cases Nazism and fascism, to call it by the vague term "the Russian World" and give it to people. An outside observer's first thought would be: How could anyone believe this?. However, competent work and well-set narratives perfectly accomplished their task, creating a viable ideology from this Frankenstein monster. The question now is whether it will live long without SCP-054-UA?

— Senior scientific officer of the Paranormal and Occult Anomalies Unit, Director of Site UA-16, prof., Dr. habil. █.█. Yakym.

+ Note verbale from the External Relations Division of Site ██ regarding SCP-054-UA — Level 3 security clearance required.

SCP Foundation Branch in Ukraine
Site ██
External Relations Division

№428/13/21

On SCP-054-UA

The External Relations Division of Site ██ presents its compliments to Site UA-16 and has the honour to notify you of the results of its own analysis of the present information about SCP-054-UA.

Indeed, the destructive multi-channel memetic agent designated as SCP-054-UA does share the narratives beneficial, first and foremost, to the national government of the Russian Federation. Thus, similar ones can be regularly observed, although slightly different in form, in the official mass media and those literary sources, which receive their financing from the state, including schoolbooks, research monographs and works of fiction. Likewise, its construction and principles of operation possess features similar to the samples mentioned by you, as confirmed by the conclusions of the experts of Site ██.

Nevertheless, the External Relations Division of Site ██ would like to voice its reservations against the presumption of the Russian Federation’s special services being connected to the development and dissemination of the aforementioned memetic agent. In modern conditions, a communicative strategy based on the radicalisation and disinformation of the scale demonstrated by the persons infected with SCP-054-UA, while capable for being effective for short-term sporadic spikes of target activities, is doomed to fail in the long term. Its effectiveness is further limited by the chosen target groups – while their representatives are numerous, they do not possess the power and resources necessary for implementing the ideas implanted by SCP-054-UA to any meaningful extent. Furthermore, individuals immune to the influence of the aforementioned memetic agent, universally perceive the afflicted individuals as mentally defective, and develop persistent antipathy to the ideas propagated by the latter. Specialists of the Russian Federation cannot be oblivious to the aforesaid, which gives rise to doubts regarding the validity of the hypothesis stipulated by the SCP-054-UA document.

In the light of the abovementioned, the External Relations Division of Site ██ would like to present, for your consideration, an alternative hypothesis: SCP-054-UA has been developed and disseminated by the Political Organisation of the Rukh “Angriff”. Historical data demonstrates that it possesses the scientific and technological capacities necessary for the creation of similar memetic agents; moreover, the aforementioned long-term effect engendered by the infected individuals on the unafflicted population corresponds to the known goals of the group – potential enemies of the Ukrainian sovereignty, who otherwise would have remained undiscovered and could have caused significant damage in the most crucial moments, are transformed, under the influence of the memetic agent, into the living and extremely conspicuous epitome of the image of the enemy of Ukraine. One could hardly design propaganda more effective than that.

While the SCP-054-UA document highlights that dissemination of the memetic agent could have provided facilitating influence for the occupation of the Crimean Peninsula by the Russian Federation, as well as for its intervention in Donetsk and Luhansk regions of Ukraine, thus directly opposing the goals of the group mentioned above, the experts of Site ██ were unable to find conclusive evidence of its spread during the initial stages of the events. Yet, the External Relations Division of Site ██ would like to note that, even if such involvement were to be proved, it would not conflict with the proposed hypothesis. Due to the relatively limited resources available to the P.O.R.A. (including those of expert nature), the anomalies developed by the group do not always work as expected by the designers – thus, Document 041-UA-D-1 indicates that the SCP-041-UA effect was not to designed to spread to children, as they do not constitute electoral subjects. The External Relations Division of Site ██ presumes that, even if sufficiently proven, the facilitative effect of SCP-054-UA can be attributed to the structural defects of the initial variants of the memetic agent. That could also explain the subsequent improvements that the Memetics and Informational Threats Division continues to observe up to this date.

The External Relations Division of Site ██ takes this opportunity to renew to Site UA-16 the assurances of its highest consideration.

Head of the External Relations Division of Site ██ A.D.

Director of Site UA-16
Dr. Yakym

Research personnel,
assigned to SCP-054-UA

Footnotes

1. "Fictional Map such territory has never existed and never will in okraina. Census in the Russian Empire in 1897 there are no Ukrainians. Sikorskyi and Bulhakov confirmed that Ukrainians is a fictional nation and okraina's population knew who they are and where they live" — original grammar kept. Okraina — term, consonant to Ukraina (Ukraine), usually used pejoratively and originating from a theory that links Ukraine's toponymic to "окраина" — an outskirt, periphery, borderland.

2. Fascists and banderites oppress Russians in Ukraine.

3. The West constitutes Gayrope and Pindosia. (pejorative Russian terms referring to Europe and USA respectively. – transl)

4. A type of communicational approach aimed at provoking emotional reaction from the recipients and inciting conflict.

5. It has been observed that this is where SCP-054-UA is most actively distributed.

6. The Russian people are the Chosen people.

7. All surrounding countries are indebted to us, as we have created them.

8. The world is held together by the special spirituality of Russia.

9. Putin is good, it’s just that thieves are stationed at the local level.

10. Russia has to gather all its former lands.

11. All crimes of the Russian dictatorships of the past are lies spread by the West.

12. Russia is surrounded by enemies who are doing everything to destroy it, make our lives worth and, all in all, are guilty of everything.

13. Russians are the descendants of Aryans, who must fight against the judeo-masons

14. See Dr. Yakym's comment.

15. Possibly by the Federal Agency for Anomalous Supervision (FANA).

16. The Russian world is a geopolitical and ideological concept that considers the Russian Federation as a civilisation centre for the Eastern Slavs, and the Eastern Slavs themselves — as part of the single, Russian, people. It is usually combined with the desire to restore Russian power over the territories of the former Russian Empire.

17. A song, popular among the ranks of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army – a Ukrainian political-military organisation active in the middle XX century.

18. M. Szulczewski, Propaganda polityczna. Pojęcia – Funkcje – Problemy, Książka i Wiedza, Warszawa 1971, p. 7.