Стаття присвячена з’ясуванню ролі і місця політичної карикатури у формуванні інформаційного простору на території Чернігівської області в роки Другої світової війни. Аналіз візуальних образів, розміщених на сторінках окупаційної преси, сприяє розкриттю
концепції ідеологічних маніпуляцій нацистського режиму, дозволяє
оцінити їхній вплив на процес формування архетипів сприйняття
як на населення окупованої України, так і на сучасників.
The article is devoted to the clarification of the political caricature’s
role and position in the forming of the informational space on the Chernihiv
region territory during World War II. In 1941-1943 the occupation
authorities published 7 newspapers in Chernihiv, Nizhyn, Pryluky,
Snovsk, Ostry, Semenivka, Novhorod-Siverskyi. We find caricatures in
123 issues of 469. Most of the images are in the «Ukrainske Polissia» (53
issues), «Nizhynski visti» (30), and «Visti Pryluchchyny» (23). Newspapers
promptly introduced readers to the front lines, orders and announcements
of the occupation administration and orders of the German command.
The analysis found that the publication of the occupation media had
a clear anti-Soviet and anti-Semitic orientation. Some caricatures were
used for purely tactical reasons, directing the incitement of international
enmity. The rest images orientation was more distant, strategic objectives,
which was to discredit the Soviet leadership as reckless and criminal. The
occupation press ridiculed the anti-Hitler coalition figures (Stalin, Roosevelt,
Cherchill), the inability of the Allies to withstand the German military
units and secure the admission of the Lend-Lease program. Based on the
moral and psychological and ideological stereotypes of marginalized group
Ukrainian society Nazi propaganda exploited the worst traits and feelings,
directing them to support the awful terror.
The analysis of the visual images on the pages of the occupational press
helps to reveal the concept of ideological manipulations of the Nazi regime.
It also helps to evaluate their influence on the forming of the perception
archetypes of both people of occupied Ukraine and people who live nowadays.
