Comparison of Soviet and Czechoslovak Totalitarian Regimes.pdf

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1. Introduction to the
Concept of
Propaganda
and a Comparative Analysis of Soviet and Czechoslovak
Totalitarian Regimes

2. Esthetics
-One of the key factors in spreading propaganda (on the left, former Stalin’s Monument in Prague)
-Manyofthesymbols, unfortunately, still remainpopular even in pop culture

5. -Comparison of Soviet and
Nazi propaganda posters with
striking similarities
-Different totalitarian
regimes copying each other

6. Importance of the
notion of “enemy” for
totalitarian regimes
•Kulak
•Nazi
•Imperialist
•Bourgeois
•Capitalist exploiters
•Counter-revolutionary
•Class enemy
•Revisionists
•Zionist

7. Comparison of anti-capitalist propaganda in Nazi Germany and Soviet Union

8. Comparison of antisemiticpropaganda in Nazi Germany and Soviet Union ,twototalitarianregimesdenouncingeachother

9. The Notion of “Class” Enemy can change very swiftly in
Totalitarian Regimes

10. Soviet anti- religious propaganda, assimilating religion with Nazism

11. Collectivization
of 1928

12. Holodomor

13. •Expressions like “building
socialism”
•Stakhanovite movement
•Difference between the
economic outcome.
•In other words: It’s not like
the Soviet socialist economic
system doesn’t work,you just
need to work more!
•Five years plans

14. White Sea-Baltic Canal
in the name of Stalin
•Presented the canal as an example of
the success of the first five-year plan
•About 25,000 deaths
•Brutal conditions, very primitive tools
•A carefully prepared visit in August 1933
to the White Sea–Baltic Canal, Maxim
Gorky etc. compiled a work in praise of
the project, the 600- page The I.V. Stalin
White Sea –Baltic Sea Canal

15. Current Yunarmiyaand Former Soviet
Young Pioneers – A feature of collectivist
societies

16. Premise of Peace

17. List of Soviet aggressions:
•War of Ukrainian Independence (second phase 1919- 1921)
•Polish-Soviet War (1919- 1921)
•Soviet–Japanese border conflicts (1932- 1939)
•Winter War with Finland (1939- 1940)
•Soviet invasion of the Baltic states during WWII (1940)
•Soviet invasion of Manchuria (1945)
•Soviet invasion of Afghanistan (1979- 1989)
•Proxy in Korean War, Vietnam War

19. Květoslava Moravečková
•We could only tell the time according to the sun. If
s
omebody ran away –as, for example, Dáša Šimková[14]
once did –the line-up was longer because it took a long time
to count us and find out if and who was missing. After the
line-up we went straight to bed. We were glad that we coul
d
go to sleep. It was real slavery there! (politictivezni.cz)
•About disabled prisoners: Yes, poor souls! They were
m
entally disabled and if you saw how they were treated!
They were treated like slaves. They got up in the morni
ng
just like us and they got black slop. … They were so scared
of
the supervisors, poor souls! It was unbelievably drastic. Thi
s
was how socialism looked like. (politictivezni.cz)

20. Jan Pospíšil
•About the interrogation by the StB : During the hearing they
were spinning me around. That means that they punched me
anywhere so that I would move away, but closer to another
person. Then they were also beating me with truncheons. Note
this: that the majority of "mukls“ are deaf in the left ear. Why?
Because they were always hit by the truncheon on the left ear
because most of the policemen were right-handed. Note that.
(politictivezni.cz)
•About s
confinement : There was also a great deal of
bullying when we were in solitary confinement. There wer
e
thousands of barrels we were storing here and there for
nothing. A pile of sand was transported from here to there, back
and forth. In winter we had to take all the hot coals from the
fireplace at 6 o'clock in the evening. There was no heat
.
(politictivezni.cz)

22. Propaganda
concerning socio-
economic well-being
•In Finland, mortgages have
doubled in price after joini
ng
NATO and closing the borders
with Russia. In addition, queues
for medical services have
reached a collapse. People are
rapidly becoming poorer, and t
he
authorities are thinking about
how to please the military
alliance and send more weapons
to Ukraine. (URA.RU)