The Russian propaganda for invading countries using the pretext
of protecting minorities has been used many times before.
Stefan Lemieszewski
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http://www.amazon.ca/Motherland-Danger-Soviet-Propaganda-during/dp/0674049241
Motherland in Danger: Soviet Propaganda during World War II
Karel C. Berkoff
(page 10)
On September 17 Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov announced
that the Red Army had invaded the Polish state from the east, to “protect
the life and property of the population of western Ukraine and western
Belorussia.”10 When he visited Berlin in November 1940, a photograph
of him standing beside Hitler appeared in Pravda. Movie showings were
preceded by a newsreel that presented Germany as an ally that could
be relied upon. A Russian remembers the following details: “Hitler
welcomes Molotov warmly like a long-lost brother, keeps shaking him
by the hand; they are immediately immersed in conversation, and the
photographers crowd around with their flash-guns busy.”11 By that
time confidential materials supplied to high-ranking members of the
propaganda structure already contained anti-German motifs, but Stalin,
who wished to avoid alienating Germany, still barred major changes in
international reporting.12 Soviet censors did reportedly black out Hitler’s
face from photographs and scratch out the tiny swastika on German
stamps.13
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