Mindless, noisy and easily manipulated crowd. The term stems from Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book where it appears as “Bandar-log” (monkey people, in Hindi बन्दर-लोग) to describe the monkey tribes. It has been used by Vladimir Putin in December 2011 to call out protesting citizens, characterising them a being manipulated by foreign powers. More recently its meaning has been expanded to become a synonym of бандеровцы due to its phonetic similarity.
Идите ко мне, бандерлоги.
Come to me, bandar-logs.
(В.В. Путин, 15/12/2011)
«Из Каменского уже бандерлогов (подразделения ВСУ — прим. ТАСС) выбили. […] Бандерлогов там нет, они выбиты на несколько сот метров от села, но тем не менее туда прилетает, там горит. Говорить, что там началась мирная жизнь, мягко говоря преждевременно», — сказал [Владимир Рогов] в эфире «Соловьев Live».
“The banderlogs (units of the Ukrainian Armed Forces — TASS editor’s note) have already been driven out of Kamenskoye. […] There are no banderlogs there anymore; they have been pushed back several hundred metres from the village. Nevertheless, strikes are still landing there and things are burning. To say that peaceful life has begun there would be, to put it mildly, premature,” [Vladimir Rogov] said on Solovyov Live.
(tass.ru, 01/2023)
