Rola i działania korespondentów wojennych Armii Czerwonej podczas ofensywy 2 Frontu Białoruskiego zimą 1945 roku
The role and activities of the Red Army war correspondents during the 2nd Belorussian Front offensive in the winter of 1945

Summary/Abstract: The Red Army’s struggle with the Wehrmacht was accompanied by information and propaganda activities. In the beginning of 1945 those activities changed its main ideological goal from the incurring of hatred for the enemy in the soldiers and the call for revenge on him to the return of internationalism, manifesting itself in the dissemination of the slogan of the liberation of European nations, including Germans, from fascism. One of the main groups tasked with changing the social attitudes were war correspondents, depicting the conflict in the soviet mass-media. In the article, the author presents the functioning of the „correspondent system” in the Red Army during the war and the activity of journalists in the ranks of the 2nd Belarusian Front. 2nd Belarusian Front at that time was advancing from the line of the Narew river in the direction of the Vistula Lagoon, that is, trough the East Prussia, treated by the Red Army’s soldiers as a lair of German militarism and only later as a part of the post-war Poland.

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