Shaping of the Official Model of Collective Memory about The World War II as a Means of Information-psychological Influence (on the Materials of The Russian Federation)
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The Russian Federation’s unleashing of full-scale armed aggression against Ukraine was preceded by information-psychological influence on the Russian public to ensure a positive perception of the fact of future violence. An essential aspect of this influence is the formation by the Russian state propaganda institutions of an official model of collective memory of the World War II (WWII). The purpose of the proposed study is to reveal the peculiarities of using the USSR’s propaganda narrative about WWII in the anti-Ukrainian propaganda campaign, as well as its adaptation to the geopolitical realities of the early 21st cent., and the use by the aggressor country of the mythologies of the Soviet model of collective memory about the events of WWII to justify war crimes and crimes against humanity. The study of the features of the formation and dissemination of militaristic discourse through the purposeful shaping of the Russian society’s collective memory about WWII has proved that the collective memory of the Russian population was divided into several interconnected but unequally interdependent segments. Subjective memories of war veterans and children of war gave way to state-sanctioned memories. The political elite of the Russian Federation, with the support of the academic community of Russian historians, has formed and actualized an aggressive, exclusive model of collective memory of WWII.
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