Obraz metropolity Andrzeja Szeptyckiego w propagandowej literaturze Ukraińskiej Socjalistycznej Republiki Sowieckiej.
The Image of Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky in the Propaganda Literature of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic

Summary/Abstract: This article presents a picture of the Greek-Catholic Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky as an internal enemy of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic created by authors who were very ideologically engaged and worked closely with the machine of communist propaganda. The publications that have been subjected to analysis are popular scientific books and novels that have been published between 1944 and 1991, authored mostly by Jarosław Hałan, Wołodymyr Bielajew, Kłym Dmytruk, and Serhij Danyłenki. Their activity can be called a propaganda campaign against the Greek-Catholic Church and Andrey Sheptytsky. It consisted of presenting the figure of an enemy, his real or imagined aims and activities, foreign allies, and the official attitude of the communist authorities. Soviet authors subjected the figure of the metropolitan to multifaceted criticism, above all because of his anti-communism, which Sheptytsky made no attempt at concealing. Using the rhetoric of propaganda, they created and maintained the image of Sheptytsky as a traitor to the Ukrainian nation who collaborated with the papacy, Austro-Hungary, Poland, and the Third Reich; an anti-communist, collaborator, fascist, and a soullessfigure who was not responsive to the common man.

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