ALCOOLISMO COMO PROPAGANDA NA GUERRA FRIA

A ÓPTICA SOVIÉTICA NO CINEMA DO STALINISMO TARDIO

Abstract

During late Stalinism (1945-53) a series of anti-Anglo-American films were shot in the USSR as a means of fighting the cultural war in the nascent Cold War and counteracting the anti-Soviet discourse of the former allies. The motto of alcoholism was important for both sides, with the Soviets managing to invert Hollywood's logic, copying and redirecting anti-Soviet propaganda based on old Russophobic images against capitalist enemies, represented as decadent drunks, in a caricature and open way when members of the social classes low, and masked by arrogance, wealth and brazenness among the elites. 22 Soviet films produced in the period of late Stalinism in which anti-Anglo-American messages appear were selected. Marc Ferro's cinematographic socio-history makes it possible to apprehend this interaction between the cinemas of rival powers and their political and ideological use. We also tried to understand and measure the phenomenon of alcoholism in the USSR, its political and social issues, and compare it with other places in the world.