Tsvetkov A.V., Chairman, Tver city public organization "Club of lovers of military history "Knight" Collaborationist propaganda in the Lokot autonomous okrug in 1941-1943

the article discusses the main directions of collaborationist propaganda and ways of their implementation in the Lokot Autonomous Okrug (the Lokot Republic), which existed on the territory of the Orel region from October 1941 to August 1943. This unique quasi-state formation in the Soviet territory occupied by the Germans, as well as the problem of collaboration in general, remained outside the scope of scientific research for a long time. Nevertheless, collaborationist propaganda is part of the ideological confrontation during the Great Patriotic War and deserves a separate study. The authors come to the conclusion that the forms of agitation work with the population practically duplicated the Soviet ones, and the ideological attitudes of the Lokot administration were copied from German propaganda slogans, often without taking into account local specifics and the needs of the population, which is a weak point of collaborationist propaganda. The article is based on materials published in the Lokot Autonomous Okrug of the newspaper «Voice of the People».

The Great Patriotic War, the Lokot Republic, collaboration, propaganda