Abstract
This article describes the specific features of the Soviet variant of construction of the “discourse of suffering” as the main content-generating component of the memory of forced labor during the period of the Second World War. Here we mainly examine the variety of literary and journalistic recreations of the suffering of forced laborers, been proposed during the Soviet time. The source base thus encompasses newspaper articles, agitation and propaganda materials (including brochures and leaflets issued during the war and in the first postwar years), published letters, memoirs, and samples of folkloric works created by forced laborers, works of poetry and prose written by Soviet writers, fictional and documentary films, etc.
Highlights
This article describes the specific features of the Soviet variant of construction of the “discourse of suffering” as the main content-generating component of the memory of forced labor during the period of the Second World War
The source base encompasses newspaper articles, agitation and propaganda materials, published letters, memoirs, and samples of folkloric works created by forced laborers, works of poetry and prose written by Soviet writers, fictional and documentary films, etc
Among the many crimes perpetrated by the Nazis during the Second World War was the exploitation of labor carried out by civilians for the benefit of the economy of the Third Reich
Summary
The enslavement of Soviet forced laborers stopped with the end of the war They attained recognition above all as victims of Nazi persecutions only after the dissolution of the USSR, a country in which during both the war and in the postwar years their memories and experiences were an indissoluble component of the general discourse of the “Great Patriotic War.”. Be that as it may, they were used in a specific manner. Throughout the war and the postwar years the antihero of this project was presented by the figure of an aggressor and invader—a German fascist enslaver, the depiction of whose characteristic features and behavioral traits remained practically unchanged, in contrast to the heroes of the project
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