Great Patriotic War on pages of the Belarusian printed mass media

Abstract

Article is devoted to qualitative analysis of the publications’ content in Belarusian media on the theme of the Great Patriotic War. The analysis helps to reveal trends of the Second World War cultural memory translation in domestic newspapers. It was found out that the given topic is widely broadcasted in Belarusian newspapers. It often was presented to the reader through the articles of not only historians and journalists, but also as the memories of veterans and family stories. The article highlights the most commonly used aspects of the Great Patriotic War historical memory translation in the consciousness of Belarusians in printed media. Analyzed publications have been devoted to veterans, women’s contribution to the victory in the Great Patriotic War, the role of partisan movement, a penal battalions and victims of concentration camps, ghettos, “shtalags” and others.