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Трансформации образа Турции в советской сатирической прессе 1940-х — 1950-х гг.
The article analyzes the transformation of the image of Turkey in the Soviet satiricalpress during the 1940s and 1950s. That was a period characterized by a noticeableheating of the Soviet-Turkish relations due to the neutrality policy of Turkey during theSecond World War. Using the methodological tools of imagology, the author exploresthe content diversity and polyphony of political subtexts of cartoons and journalisticessays of the Soviet satirical magazine “Krokodil” during the period of 1944—1953.The substantial deconstruction of the materials allows us to trace the nature of thetransformation of the image of Turkey and the perception of Turkish political figures inthe USSR. The study revealed the correlation of cartoons and satirical images of Turkeyand Turks with the nonlinear dynamics of the development of the Soviet-Turkishrelations. If in the mid-1940s individual political figures were mainly criticized, in thelate 1940s — early 1950s the focus shifted to criticism of the foreign and domesticpolitical actions of the Republic of Turkey, in particular its involvement in the KoreanWar (1950—1953), as well as a grotesque depiction of the plight, subordinate positionof the Turkish people in relation to the West.