NEW OPPONENT’S FACE: CARICATURES ABOUT USSR IN CANADIAN POLITICAL DISCOURSE (1945-1953)
NEW OPPONENT’S FACE: CARICATURES ABOUT USSR IN CANADIAN POLITICAL DISCOURSE (1945-1953)

Summary/Abstract: The end of the World War Two had marked a significant change in the foreign relations balance, especially in the role and the number of the major powers which included for that moment USSR and USA which led to the Cold War start. It is questionable and scientifically interesting to reveal how the Canadian attitude to the later-Stalinist Soviet Union had changed from mostly allied to mostly hostile. Using the visual history approach among with the discourse studies, the author studied how this relation change had occurred using the caricatures as the primary sources. The article concludes that the change in the attitude was slow and was speeded by first Cold War conflicts and tensions which all were reflected, especially like the Korean War. The author also connects these transformations with the internal changes like the Gouzenko Affair and the change of leadership. In the same time, it is stated that negative connotation and portraying of the USSR as an aggressor were done without trying to humiliate the Soviet State, viewing the Cold War as a result not only of the East aggressive policies, but also of the West.

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