Soğuk Savaş Döneminde Sovyetler Birliği'nin İsrail Karşıtı Söylemlerinin Propaganda Posterlerindeki Sunumu

Abstract

Anti-Israel policies generally dominated the foreign policy of the Soviet Union during the Cold War (1947-1991) between West and East Blocks. The Soviet Union focused on anti-Israeli propaganda activities in public opinion and accused Israel of causing chaos in the Middle East during this period. One of the communication tools used by the Soviet Union in propaganda activities in that period was posters. In this study, it was tried to reveal which anti-Israel discourses were used and how Israel was presented in the anti-Israel propaganda posters prepared by the Soviet Union in the Cold War. For this purpose, the propaganda posters determined using the purposeful sampling method were examined through Russian-American linguist Roman Jakobson's semiotics model. The visual and written codes of the 7 propaganda posters determined in the study were analyzed in terms of the semiotics concepts of Jakobson. As a result of the findings obtained, it was revealed that anti-Israel rhetoric was formed over the United States, that Israel and Nazi Germany were compared and it was shown that Israel was responsible for the conflicts in the Middle East int the posters. In this way, it was seen that anti-Israel thoughts were tried to be dominant in Soviet society.