“Ужилването”: Антизападните карикатури на страниците на вестник „Стършел” в края на 40-те години на ХХ век
The Sting: Anti-Western Cartoons on the Pages of the Starshel newspaper in the late 1940s

Summary/Abstract: The article presents certain visualized dimensions of Bulgarian communists’ attitude to Western countries. It aims at showing the connection between anti-Western beliefs of the Communist Party and how those ideas were reflected in the Starshel satirical newspaper in the context of the growing contradiction in world affairs. Cartoonists depicted Western politicians, particularly Americans, as greedy capitalists who were armed with guns, bombs and money. Those features symbolized the aspirations of the United States government and its allies for world supremacy and their hostile plans against Bulgaria and other socialist states. The aggressive image of the West could be explained in the light of total Soviet domination in Bulgaria, the power of the local communists, the global conflict between the Soviet bloc and Western countries as well as in terms of the strong anti-Western rhetoric which was inherent in communist parties.

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