The shorter Smedley attribution and the longer two-clause wording have different evidentiary status.
The shorter form has a credible secondary attribution; the added sentence remains unverified as Smedley wording in the reviewed corpus.
Provenance at the point of reading
Passage annotations
Consequential statements can be traced directly to the public claim ledger and preserved source identifiers—without publishing protected dossier bodies or pretending every sentence has the same evidentiary status.
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“Rebel or Die” is not verified as a canonical movement-level slogan of post-2022 Russian anti-war resistance.
The negative finding means no verifiable movement-level provenance was located; it does not prove no individual ever used similar wording.
What an annotation does not mean
A marker does not certify the sentence. It records why the passage is consequential, which claim status governs it, which preserved dossiers inform it, and what qualification should travel with the prose.