Studia Humanitatis (Dec 2013)

The language of the Soviet political propaganda in conditions of escalation of politico military opposition in western Ukraine at the initial of the World War II

  • Dokash Oksana Yuriievna

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 3

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The discourse of Soviet political propaganda is analyzed in conditions of the beginning of the WWII and entering of the Red Army into Western Ukraine on September 17, 1939. The article gives characteristic of propagandistic and manipulative mechanisms of escalation of military and political struggle as well as theirs influence upon mass consciousness of population of the region as objects of realization of Stalin’s totalitarian regime. The submission of information flows to ideological-propagandistic objectives of the Stalinist totalitarian regime, including the use of special “Soviet language” is indicated.

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