Ksenia Vasilievna Sak,
Candidate of Historical Sciences, Alexander Solzhenitsyn House of Russia Abroad, Moscow, Russia, e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Participants of the Resistance Movement in France and the Soviet Award Diplomacy (1955–1965)
DOI: 10.31518/2618-9100-2021-3-15
The article deals with the presentation of Soviet awards to the participants of the European resistance movement in France, which took place in the period from 1955 to 1965 within the framework of Soviet award diplomacy. Among the recipients were both French citizens and Russian emigrants. At this time, the award mechanism was formed, the stages of passing the decision on awarding and its approval were worked out, but there was no single principle according to which awards were awarded, except for the general attitude to awarding Resistance participants. In the case of Russian emigrants, their awarding was initiated by the KGB for the purpose of pro-Soviet propaganda among White emigrants and displaced persons. The awards were a special area of cultural diplomacy, made to demonstrate the loyalty of the two states and promote peacemaking in Western public opinion in the Cold War.
Publishing: 28/06/2021
The article has been received by the editor on 21.05.2021
How to cite: Sak K.V. Participants of the Resistance Movement in France and the Soviet Award Diplomacy (1955–1965) // Historical Courier, 2021, No. 3 (17), pp. 135–146. [Available online:] http://istkurier.ru/data/2021/ISTKURIER-2021-3-15.pdf
Links: Issue 3 2021
Keywords: rewarding; Resistance movements; Normandy–Niemen; Russian emigration; V.A. Obolenskaya; V.V. Porik; cultural diplomacy; Soviet-French relations; Soviet Committee of War Veterans