RUSSIAN SPIRIT AND BOLSHEVISM. REPRESENTATION AND ATTITUDE TO THE COMMUNIST SYSTEM IN THE USSR IN THE YEARS OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR ON THE MATERIAL OF THE SWISS GERMAN-LANGUAGE
The article analyses the representation of Soviet ideology in Swiss daily newspapers from the signing of Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact to the end of World War II in Europe as one of the main factors of influence on image of the USSR in Switzerland. Based on the newspapers “Neue Zürcher Zeitung” and “Tages-Anzeiger” the article analyses the attitude to the Bolshevistic ideology in Switzerland in the begging of the war: compares the attitude to the ideologies of Germany and the USSR, describes Soviet imperialism and the Bolshevisation of the countries occupied by the USSR. Also the preconditions for the banning of the Communist Party in Switzerland in 1940 are described. The changes of Bolshevism after the beginning of the Great Patriotic War (the rehabilitation of the historical past, the legitimization of power as a historical tradition, the cultivation of religious and national feelings) is also analyzed on the materials of the newspapers. The attitude of Swiss newspapers to Bolshevism is also studied as one of the factors influencing the world order after the end of the war in Europe.