WORD AND WORK OF THE NPA: SOVIET PROPAGANDA IN AFRICA DURING THE COLD WAR
WORD AND WORK OF THE NPA: SOVIET PROPAGANDA IN AFRICA DURING THE COLD WAR

Summary/Abstract: The article is devoted to the analysis of the propagandistic and disinformative activities of the ,,Novosti” Press Agency (NPA) in the African countries in the 1960s-1980s. The research is based mainly on archival materials that reveal the strategy and tactics of the main Soviet tool of the information warfare, the close relationship of this ,,public” organization with the CC CPSU and KGB. The main tasks of the NPA in Africa were: the creation of the positive image of the USSR as of the expresser and protector of the former colonial countries‟ interests, the informational support of the states of ,,socialist orientation”, anti-Western propaganda, the publication of the beneficial materials on behalf of the local authors in the African mass media. In conclusion, there is a finding that the NPA was an important element of the state party machine and executed the political order of its leadership not disdaining the methods that are more suitable for the state security services.

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