Wednesday, November 19, 2014

Propaganda in Soviet Union

Their films functioned in a way to influence and regulate the public opinion. The Soviet Union altered their cinema and used it as a way to spray propaganda. The Cold War films tried addressing different facades of the battle, and they tried to influence the domestic and foreign opinion. However, the USA had an immense benefit over the Soviet Union. After all, America was very prepared to use their filmmaking attainments as a device to influence the public opinion in a way the Soviet Union simply could not.


The Soviet Union’s film industry performed as a device for propaganda. It was embracive for the major cultural values of the Stalinist era; for example, hierarchy, monumentalize, and cults of heroes that triumphed over the limits of practical human reason and built socialism. Hagiographic biographies were about the heroes of Soviet, and its royal history overwhelmed the filmmaking’s yield. This movement happened especially after World War II. 

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