Communist Ideological Dystopia. The Newspaper Scânteia (1944-1950) – a “collective linguistic delirium”
Communist Ideological Dystopia. The Newspaper Scânteia (1944-1950) – a “collective linguistic delirium”

Summary/Abstract: Scânteia, the official gazette of the Central Committee of the Romanian Communist Party, launched in 1944, the year of its first legal publication, lead a genuine aggressive campaign against the so-called “enemies of the people” (who were members of the historical parties, wealthy peasants, career officers, journalists, academics, engineers, industrialists and all the other categories that had not adhered to enforced communist beliefs). The machinery worked first at a linguistic level, violently, because the newspaper under discussion and its ideology (together with the guardian Party) intended to acquire a demonstrative corporeality, precisely in order to validate, including viscerally, its attacks.

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