НАЦИСТСКАЯ ПРОПАГАНДА АНТИСЕМИТИЗМА НА ВРЕМЕННО ОККУПИРОВАННЫХ ТЕРРИТОРИЯХ СССРВ ТРАКТОВКЕ СОВЕТСКОЙ ПОЛИТИЧЕСКОЙ ЭЛИТЫ: ДИКТАТ ДОКТРИНЫ И ТРЕБОВАНИЯ
THE NAZI PROPAGANDA OF ANTI-SEMITISM IN THE TEMPORARILY OCCUPIED TERRITORIES OF THE USSR IN THE INTERPRETATION OF THE SOVIET POLITICAL ELITE: DOCTRINA

Summary/Abstract: The matter of this article is how the Soviet political elite was interpreting the information on the Nazi propaganda in the temporarily occupied Soviet territories (TOST), varying the interpretations sent into the internal and the external communication channels. The focus of the artide is the Nazi propaganda in the TOST, and its subject is the interpretation of the Nazi propaganda by the Soviet elite. In several cases, the author intentionally continues her analysis beyond the conventional peri-odisation. The author gives a voluminous historiographical thesis on the Nazi propaganda in the TOST. In it, the so-called ‘third period’ (from the late 90s to the present day) is thoroughly examined. The author analyses studies by other researchers in the area. Some aspects previously un-touched by researchers are scrupulously studied. The author criticizes several American academics who have categorically depicted the Nazi propaganda as ineffective. In polemics with D. Lerner, author uses the data of a 1939 U.S. social study. The respondents had to answer whether the Jews deserved attention equal to that accorded to other Americans. Only 39% of participants gave a posi-tive answer; 10% answered that the Jews should have been deported from the U.S.; 54% were of the opinion that the Jews could have stayed in the U.S.A., if the law kept them apart from the other citi-zens. So, in 1939 the absolute majority of Americans tended to anti-Semitic views. The influence of anti-Semitism was rising in the U.S., even when WWII came to an end. The author finds the evi-dence for this tendency in the 1945 correspondence between Tomas Mann and Albert Einstein, cited in this article. The Soviet political elite’s interpretation of the Nazi anti-Semitic propaganda in the TOST pursued different goals. Inside the country, the regime stayed in the frames of the Soviet patriotism official doctrine. The reality was reflected through the prism of the ideological pattern of ‘the Soviet people’. It had a positive influence on the Soviet society mobilization during the war. In international contacts, Stalin’s regime, on the contrary, actively used the information about the Jewish victims of the Nazism. The practice was inspired by pragmatic reasons, with the aim to get more moral and material support from the Jewish communities around the world, to use their lobbying potential to drive the U.S.A. and U.K. governments to open the second front. These aims were successfully reached by the Soviet regime.

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