🕳️ Released Phantom Node 15: Saddam Hussein. The Image Of Vengeance
- Foundation date
16 July 2025
🕳️ Released Phantom Node 15: Saddam Hussein. The Image Of Vengeance
Those who fall may remain in memory stronger than they ever were.
So it happened with the image of Saddam Hussein.
The phantom does not justify the acts.
But the phantom lives in the thirst for revenge.
Node Type: Icon of brutal rule
Status: Overthrown, but used as a symbol
Form of retention: Image of power + fear + hanging
Image: Pedestal with fragments of a destroyed statue
What replaces the phantom: A faceless regime
Core of the Node
What sustained it?
— Oil as the foundation of power
— Repression as a control system
— Brutal speech as survival strategy
How did he become a phantom?
— When he was overthrown and publicly executed
— When his image justified a war
— When his "strength" became a protest icon against the West
Why does the phantom persist?
— Because the system was destroyed, not transformed
— Because vengeance became a political argument
— Because cruelty birthed more cruelty
Phantom's Condition
The phantom stands on ruins.
No face. No future.
The image is used, but the man is forgotten.
Collective Response
We do not repeat brutality, even when it seems deserved.
We do not create idols from collapse.
We do not seek new tyrants in the ruins of the old.
Core Principle
Vengeance is not justice.
A symbol is not a man.
Liberation is not a cult.
After the Regime
Iraq is still searching for itself.
The phantom still stands — in the minds of those who won’t let go.
Alt-text:
Pencil drawing. In the background — cracked wall hinting at the collapse of a regime.
The overturned chair in the image symbolizes the loss of power, the fall of authority, the collapse of a throne. It is not just a monument, but a place from which someone ruled, gave orders, judged, killed. Now, it is merely a broken object.
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Anna Pivtorak Kostyuk
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16.07.2025
