🕳️ Released Phantom Node 34: Nikolai Patrushev. The Gray Generator of Evil

This project is a philosophical and artistic study of the phenomenon of "phantom nodes" — invisible yet influential objects and subjects in the contemporary global system. The descriptions contained within this study are metaphorical and allegorical, aimed at uncovering systemic problems, regimes, and civilisational influences. They are not a journalistic investigation or legal accusations, but serve as an artistic interpretation of reality.

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🕳️ Released Phantom Node 34: Nikolai Patrushev. The Gray Generator of Evil

A shadowy figure, yet a central force. Not a president — but a regime architect.

The mind behind the hybrid war, paranoia propaganda, and systemic poisoning of truth.

Who is Nikolai Patrushev?

One of the most powerful yet least visible figures in the Russian regime. Former head of the FSB and currently Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation.

He is widely regarded as the architect of hybrid warfare and the key generator of conspiracy-driven ideology that justifies internal repression and external aggression.

His power lies not in charisma, but in control — over fear, poisons, information, and shadows.

Type of Node:

Power Without Face

Status:

Alive — Still Active

Mode of Control:

Fear, Manipulation, “Security” Ideology

Phantom Image:

An intelligence official who shapes policy, not laws.

He erodes the idea of peace with concepts like "eternal threat" and "invisible enemy."

Instead of a Face:

Folders, toxins, doctrines, digital fog.

Core of the Node

What sustained it?

– The KGB legacy: loyalty to secrecy and force over law

– The myth of encirclement by enemies

– Total control over “security,” both internal and geopolitical

How did it become a phantom?

– He never sought public affection — he wanted full obedience

– His words were not emotional speeches, but strategic viruses

– With each disinformation wave, he built a more secure position in the shadows

Why does the phantom still exist?

– The system needs ideologues who explain cruelty with paranoia

– His presence justifies hybrid actions: assassinations, invasions, disinformation

– He is the spiritual father of Russia’s information war machine

State of the Phantom:

Mutating — spreading beyond borders in new formats

After the Regime:

Even after he disappears, the “Patrushev Method” — fear-driven narrative management — will remain in intelligence manuals across autocracies

Collective Response

We name the node not to empower it — but to disarm it.

By revealing the operator of fear, we cut the wire of control.

Key Principle:

Expose the mechanics of manipulation before they reproduce

Alt-text:

Graphite portrait of Nikolai Patrushev on aged paper. His semi-silhouetted figure blends with archival folders, security service stamps, and waves of disinformation. A trench-coated ghost dissolves into digital static. Conspiracy maps with arrows and threads mark the background. Dark Orthodox domes merge with radio signals and military codes. Patrushev spins a cracked globe, tinted with toxic yellow-green spills. Subtle icons of poison — syringes, teapots, "Novichok" — appear among shelves. Behind him, a Soviet-style security office with faceless portraits evokes total surveillance and ideological fog.

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Unmasking the Phantom. Pivtorak.Studio. 02.08.2025

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🛡️ This project is an artistic and philosophical exploration. 

All descriptions are allegorical in nature.

🫧Phantom Node Dossier: Nikolay Patrushev. The Gray Generator of Evil.

Key Aspects of the Phantom:

"The Gray Generator of Evil" (or "Strategist of Covert Wars"). Nikolay Patrushev is a phantom node that symbolizes the ideological core and strategic center of the regime. His public role as the head of the Security Council is merely a facade, behind which his true essence is hidden: the chief ideologue who generates conspiracy theories, historical myths, and strategic plans to justify crimes and aggression. He is the "engineer of evil" who provides a "philosophical" justification for criminal actions.

Regimes (which he directly shapes/supports):

🤯 Regime of "Theoretical Justification": Patrushev creates the ideological basis for destructive actions, reducing geopolitics to a struggle of "evil Western forces" against a "righteous empire."

♟️ Regime of "Systemic Destabilization": He is a key strategist who develops plans to destabilize both external and internal opponents.

🕵️ Regime of "Manipulation": He is responsible for the dissemination of disinformation that poisons the information space and undermines trust in institutions.

💥 Hybrid Warfare: He is the main architect of the hybrid war, which includes not only military actions but also information, economic, and political subversion.

Tools (which he actively uses/oversees):

📝 Security Council Apparatus: He uses this state structure as a tool to legitimize his ideas, turning them into state policy.

📢 Destructive Narratives: His main tool is the ideas that he disseminates through propaganda channels.

🗄️ Control Over Security Services: He controls the intelligence and security services that carry out his orders, from hacking attacks to political assassinations.

🕸️ Network of Agents: He uses a network of agents and "agents of influence" who spread his ideas and carry out subversive activities worldwide.

Civilizational Influences (which he embodies/exploits):

💔 Destruction of International Law: He personifies the systemic contempt for international norms that he ignores for the sake of geopolitical ambitions.

⚖️ Devaluation of Truth: His activities show how, at a state level, facts are denied and a convenient but false "reality" is offered in their place.

👤 Degradation of the Political System: He is a symbol of the transformation of state security into an ideological apparatus of repression.

💀 Cult of Evil: He is the embodiment of a philosophy that justifies cruelty, violence, and lies as the norm of state policy.

Dissection of a Phantom Node. Pivtorak.Studio. 02.08.2025

https://www.instagram.com/pivtorak.studio

🛡️ This project is an artistic and philosophical exploration.

All descriptions are allegorical in nature.