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Images of history in the service of the socialist friendship. The Hussites in relations between Czechoslovakia and the GDR

Publication at Faculty of Arts |
2014

Abstract

The study deals with the period from the arrival in power of the Czechoslovak Communist dictatorship in February 1948 until the second half of the fifties. It shows how the vast in the former Czech society sentiment on Germany and the Germans looked, and thereby demonstrate the mental obstacles that had to be overcome by the communist propaganda in the formation of a positive image of the newly established East German state and its inhabitants.

The strategies also included politics of history.