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The article reveals the process of becoming a new cultural space in a Ukrainian
village under German occupation, 1941-1944 years of Kherson. We have outlined the
main tasks: to show how the occupation authorities formed the new conditions of
cultural development, to reveal the working methods of lower administrative
branches in this direction and to show the public perception.
Agitation and propaganda became the first direction of the new government’s
work. All cultural and educational institutions were involved to intensify agitation.
On its basis, it was planned to create permanent stands with posters, and regular
performances and concerts.It was planned, that public libraries would be built in the
future. Therefore, a lot of measures had been done, to reserve the educational and
fiction literature out of schools.
In order to enhance the impact of written word, soviet propaganda literature was
actively confiscated by occupiers, and new literature was implemented. Such works
as: “At GPU’s cellars”, “The new way”, “What we’ve seen in Germany”, “What will
be further” had to be learned during the weekend in especially reserved hours.All the
negative aspects of the Soviet regime were shown in newspapers.Episodes of
repression, cruelty and injustice of collective farms supported by stories about what
would happen to the population in case of return of the bolsheviks.
In the context of intimidation sounded the idea of "messianic" role of the liberator
of the German army. Headmen of village council, heads of households and teachers
had to the explanation work. The key idea of this campaign was to understand "the
obligation of the Ukrainian people in front of the Great Germany" and its "heroic
warriors, to protect the population."Hard work was defined by occupation authorities
as the main duty. At the same time, clichés with national stimuli and determining the
status of Ukrainians as allies were actively used. Such activities had to generate the
belief of complicity to the great mission of destroying bolshevism and creating a new
life among the population.
Ukrainianization became the most important area of agitation and propaganda
activities. Primarily, it could been seen at the lower authority branches, where only
Ukrainian language could be used. External national attributes were actively used: in
the titles the word "Ukraine" was used, trident was used in stamps.
The propaganda at the issue of spiritual ukrainization was held as well. The church
was Ukrainized. The main areas of outreach activities in this direction were aspects
that characterize its past and reality.The problem of the negative impact on the
morale of Soviet regime’s anti-religious policy was actively discussed. The
governance demanded to hold sermons at Ukrainian communities' churches and at
churches of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Church only in Ukrainian.
A similar situation existed in schools, where ukrainization was actively held.
The governance declared the main task - "Avoid the Russian language, learn
Ukrainian." Large blocks of local history material were implemented to form a new
historical memory. At the same time, sketches from the Ukrainian history were
published in the periodical press. |
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