The Evolution And Influence Of The Propaganda Administration Of The Soviet Military Administration In Germany

After the World War II, the Soviet Union, the US and the UK occupied Germany with divided according to the prewar agreement. In the SBZ, the Soviet Union set up many organizations for its own benefit. These organizations were overlap and lacked the unified coordinate. But the Propaganda Administration of the Soviet Military Administration in Germany set up a separate flag and played the very vital role. It was not only responsible for controlling and supervising the public opinion propaganda and the news medium, moreover concentrating political affair in the SBZ in its own hand to a great extent. Even once the Propaganda Administration has had a hand in the formulating the occupied policy to Germany.In the base of the files of the Soviet Union which deciphered recently, the author discussed the Propaganda Administration of the Soviet Military Administration in Germany systematically. Firstly, this article has analyzed the background and the reason which the Propaganda Administration set up, next introduced its organization and the responsibility function, finally elaborated the change and historical function of the Propaganda Administration, and has made the objective neutral appraisal to it. This article believed that establishment of the Propaganda Administration was the need of the policy of Soviet Union to the German at that time. It was the historical product and played the very essential function in the occupied Germany of the Soviet Union from 1945 to 1949. The Propaganda Administration withdrew from the historical arena when it completed its historical mission.Through elaboration of this article, it may dynamic understand the beginning and subsequent development of the Propaganda Administration. We can see that the establishment of the Propaganda Administration was the product which was needed by state function and the national interest of the Soviet Union at that time, and also understood the difference of the policy to the German of the Soviet Union's high-level and the influence to the origin of the cold war by the Propaganda Administration.