Uciemiężeni bracia Słowianie...!. Z działalności Komitetu Wszechsłowiańskiego w Moskwie w czasie II wojny światowej

Abstract

The formation in the Soviet Union of the Pan-Slav Committee, formally a social organization consisting of representatives of all Slav nationalities, was officially intended to propagate the idea of a broadly understood Slav cooperation. In fact, its role, in its crucial aspects, boiled down to being a spectacular (for that time), and most importantly, effective element of communist propaganda. Holding typically executive functions, it became a cover-up for the headquaters in the struggle for the power over people not only in the Soviet Union, but its satellite countries as well. The Pan-Slav Committee was not a sovereign institution, but only an instrument in the hands of the Soviet leadership. Its consequence was the actual perversion of the idea of Slav unity, which weakened its social and political impact.