🎬To clarify the mystery of the eternal youth of Iliya Tolstoy turns up to be impossible without extensive involvement of such criminalistics fields like forensic genetics, forensic biology, and even forensic linguistics.
These disciplines permit to assess the trustworthiness of the biography of Iliya Tolstoy and his closest relatives. "Specific subjects that linguists may address include the likelihood of confusion in trademark cases; miscommunication because of dialect differences; the comprehensibility of legal documents; the meanings of statutes, wills and contracts; the identification of authors and speakers; the ability of jurors to understand instructions, or of an arrested person the Miranda warning; and many more." (Tiersma & Solan, 2002). Thus, besides forensic biology to verify the genuine kinship with Leo Tolstoy, as ascertained, a comprehensive forensic linguistics emerged to be indispensable for the decoding of the fake hares' biographies and identifying the metamessage to figure out who is the author of it. It is also essential for the identifying of the crime composition in particilar in the cases of terrorism: "a dialectologist might help identify the place of the speaker on a tape-recorded bomb threat."
Kulikova and Salmina (2002) state, that "Terms are words limited to their special purpose, created for certain communication within one group or sector." Like dialects attribute the speaker to the definite geography, the terminology becomes the attribute of the persons actively applying it within the similar organized group. The intensive exploitation of specific, metalanguage, aligns this with the meaning of masking during the rituals, to speak on metalanguage allows to translate the message through the metaphor. "Metaphor is the means to produce expanded consciousness, it is not simple analogy whereby qualities of "likeness," once applied to two or more objects or ideas, result in a remainder consisting of the same two objects or ideas which the mind holds as separate realities. Metaphor is, instead, unity of objective material existence and subjective experience: the objects of the masked ritual including the mask, the costume, the performer, the music, and the dance steps, are no longer distinguishable from the energy being imbued, i.e., the healing, the transition from life to death, or the transition from childhood to adults." (Merrill, 2004). Metaphor, like an inherent part of any metalanguage, is actively used in criminal groups to communicate securely regarding planning, organizing, committing, and recognizing the committed crimes in purpose to escape punishment (metalanguage requires special expert-level skills to be translated and understood) and get recognition. Thus, the forensic linguistics can shed the light not only in the absence of the fake hares kinship with the Leo Tolstoy, but also gives a clue to solve the enigma about the real fate of the real descendants of the great Russian writer of the genuine royal origin through the translation of metalanguage exploited in the preparation of the fake hares' biographies.
The eternal youth and obvious discrepancies of Iliya Tolstoy's appearance during the time, were not the only inventions of the Wikimedia Foundation Inc. in the strong cooperation with the Library of the US Congress. They went even further. Having their exclusive vision on how Iliya Tolstoy looks like, they offered the unique, exciting version of his biography. As per Wikifakepedia's page of Iliya Tolstoy, in 1916 he has immigrated to the US, New Heaven, in the Connecticut state. There, he has been married to the "teosofka" Katulskaya of the Polish origin, and happily died in 1933. Just in case, the Theosophical sect is one of the widespread Satanic cults. Iliya Tolstoy's wife, Sofia Filosofova, also immigrated, first to Turkey, and later, in 1934, she has died in Chekhoslovakia. The list of their kids was changed and extended multiple times, but the only son of Iliya Tolstoy who left the true descendants alive, did not get even the brief personal page. Moreover, Wikimedia Foundation Inc. stated unexplainable by any reasonable motivation, hard resistance to build this page. Any attempts to create the Mikhail Iliyich Tolstoy's wiki page, or revise the wiki page of Iliya Tolstoy according the true circumstances of his life, were aggressively disrupted by the Wikimedia Foundation Inc., subsequent to this by an utterly impressive comment: "In Wikipedia, if on the cell with the lion there is an inscription "This is an elephant," this article about the elephant according to our opinion [the lion in real life], will not be altered until the initiator of the changes convinces the academic community [!] of Wikipedia in another state of things. You should persuade us that the lion is not an elephant, even we know that this is true. But without the quite persuasively persuasion, we will still insist to believe that if on the cell with the lion there is an inscription "This is an elephant," we will support this point of view, because the inscription is more persuasive persuasion than common knowledge that the lion is not an elephant and everyone knows how both animals look like. If the inscription says that lion is an elephant, we are persuasively persuaded enough to believe this fact. Until this, all your attempts to alter the article about the elephant by our opinion [the lion in real life] the Wikimedia Foundation Inc. will immediately stop." Thus, the wrong photo and biography on the page of Iliya Tolstoy are not just sudden errors, of misprints. It is the official position of the Wikimedia Foundation Inc., aggressively prohibited to be unchangeable.
Going further than just a fake photo, a quick examination of the wikifake biographical article about Iliya Tolstoy shows the following. The period since 1914 till 1918 represents the time of the World War I. It was the epoch when the borders of the Russian Empire were closed, and the Europe was transformed into the theatre of military actions. At the same time, the first death camps already started their operations, with the series of genocide crimes against Slavs, Armenians, nobility, aristocracy, who constituted the targeted audience for the "elimination." Thus, even supposing that Iliya Tolstoy was able to squeeze through the closed borders like a mouse, his travelling escapade would probably finish immediately at the first death camp on his route. Solely, a few people might opt taking a stroll in the center of the battlefield under the rain of bullets. The Tolstoys' family did not have the mental health issues and related genetic pathologies. Thus, nobody out of them might decide to walk for the tour in the center of the military operation, dedicated to destroying slavs, nobility, and other groups of the population to which family of Tolstoys was related.
Written by Meggi Göring. All rights reserved. 2024. Copyright by the BOOST.
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