THE MILITARY NEWSPAPERS OF THE TURKFRONT IN NATIONAL LANGUAGES ARE AN INSTRUMENT OF IDEOLOGICAL PROPAGANDA AGAINST THE STRUGGLE FOR FREEDOM
Abstract
Our history related to the struggle of the Turkestan people for national liberation was distorted and falsified during the Soviet era. Public opinion has been distorted, distorted by false ideas, especially as a result of misinterpretation through the media. The essence, purpose, and historical significance of the brave struggle of our ancestors against the Soviet government in period 1918-1924 was distorted. The ideologists of the despotic regime have been tried to falsify the historical truth, effectively using the power of the press in this. The press has become an important tool in breaking the resistance of the people to the Soviet government in Turkestan. This study will focus on the problem related to the fact that the Soviet regime pays great attention to the publication of military publications in Turkestan, in particular newspapers and magazines in local languages. The question of the typology of such publications is revealed by the example of central newspapers, frontline newspapers, national (international) newspapers. The collaboration of Turkcomission, members of the Revolutionary Military Council of the front, and local leadership personnel are clarified through fundamental work in the process of creating and ideologically and organizationally strengthening the national military press in cooperation, as well as publication materials for internationalist soldiers. In particular, it is subject to analysis why the Soviet government devoted huge resources and efforts to increasing the number of publications in the language of representatives of different nationalities in the Red Army. By printing military publications in their native language, in the languages of international peoples, the Soviets followed the path of suppressing the struggle for freedom that broke out in Turkestan, volunteers, and more actively involved representatives of the indigenous people in the ranks of the Red Army, convincing them of the rightness of the “ugly” policy. The author draws the following conclusions: the true goals and tasks of military publications published during the period under discussion: distorting the struggle of the Turkestan peoples for national liberation as the “Basmachestvo” movement; falsification of historical truth; recruitment of the ranks of the Red Army from local residents and prisoners of war through false Soviet ideology; fostering positive attitudes towards the Red Army in public opinion; instilling a spirit of relentless struggle against Soviet enemies; strengthening ideological propaganda.
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