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The peculiarities of the current international situation, characterized by massive information attacks of Western countries against Russia, make knowledge of the rules of ideological warfare especially relevant. In this regard, the relevant historical experience accumulated by the USSR during the Great Patriotic War is of not only theoretical but also practical interest. This article deals with the propaganda aimed at exerting informational influence on the enemy troops and population in wartime conditions (1941-1945). It examines the subjects, forms and methods used by the USSR and Germany during the Great Patriotic War to exert propaganda influence on each other. The author concludes that efficiency of propaganda towards soldiers and civilians of the enemy was in direct dependence on the success of warfare, their technical equipment and the level of training of specialists in the field of ideological confrontation. Both the Soviet Union and Germany had positive results in providing information, psychological and propaganda influence on the enemy, but the war was won by the Soviet Union. This was due to the well-organized Soviet system of political propaganda, which allowed to rally people around the state leader, spread in the masses the ideas and beliefs needed by the government. The propaganda induced the enemy to surrender, instilled in him a fear of defeat and a sense of futility of resistance, and sought to change his ideological views and beliefs. |
