ABSTRACT
The subject of Soviet film propaganda is important and interesting. Soviet film propaganda used the vehicles of the newsreel; the compilation-documentary and, to a greater extent than either the western Allies or Nazi Germany, the feature film. From a dramatic point of view such a contrast had obvious benefits, but it also had a political message: the people had much to fight for. Some of the best of these, from a propagandist's point of view, would also show that the 'friendship of peoples' could be projected into the past, and the well-being and happiness of, let us say, Armenians, always depended on their alliance with the great Russian people. Russian audiences, unlike German ones, did not seem to tire of the subject of the war. An important characteristic of propaganda during this period was the use of all available media and, at the same time, a single objective to be achieved by various propagandistic means and techniques.
