On May 9, the Department of International Information held an online seminar for secondary school students interested in international relations. The topic of the webinar is World War II: tools of Soviet / Russian propaganda, manipulation and misinformation against Ukraine and the world.
May 9 has always been a powerful tool of Russian propaganda. When the world commemorates those killed in World War II on May 8, Russia has been celebrating «victory» all these years. And on February 24, 2022, we witnessed the confrontation of two worldviews: the Ukrainian slogan «Never again» opposes the Russian «We can repeat».
Speakers of the seminar were Liubomyr Khakhula, Candidate of Historical Sciences, Assistant at the Department of International Information, Deputy Director of the Lviv Historical Museum, and Nataliia Hryniokh, Candidate of Historical Sciences, Associate Professor at the same Department. The moderators of the seminar were the Head of the Department of International Information, Doctor of Political Sciences Vasyl Hulai and the Assistant of the Department Khrystyna Yuskiv.
Speakers discussed the origin and meaning of the concept of «propaganda», the role it played in international relations in the late ХХ - early ХХІ century, the instrumentalization of World War II and its transformation into the main propaganda myth of the USSR, as well as the role of the Museum of Ukrainian History in World War II in the formation of memory policy.
