"Barbarství Čingischánovo obživlo“. Politické represe v SSSR na stránkách československých meziválečných novin
"Genghis Khan's barbarism revived". Political repression in the USSR in Czechoslovak interwar newspapers

Summary/Abstract: The article examines the political repression in the Soviet Union in the interwar period and how it was reported in the Czechoslovak press. It focuses on the sources and quality of information, the ideological bias of different newspapers, and the impact of censorship and propaganda on the public perception of the Soviet reality. The article analyzes the reports on the Solovetsky Islands, the Belomor Canal, the collectivization, and the Great Terror, and compares them with the testimonies of former prisoners and recent historical research. The article concludes that the Czechoslovak press provided a relatively accurate picture of the Soviet repression, but it was often distorted by the political agenda of the journalists and the readers.

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