Poltavets Sergii

Memory Wars: How Poland Counteract the Russian Federation

Abstract: The paper presents the research of an information part of the hybrid war the Russian Federation wages against East European countries, namely, Poland, and prove that memory wars as a component of information war becomes of not lesser importance than direct war actions. The importance of media resources in counteracting information aggression of the Russian Federation is proved. The experience of Poland in the field of fighting against Russia policy aimed at making distorted reality, is analyzed. It is proved that Polish analysts, researchers and scholars to confront fake news and outright misinformation which the Russian Federation run as a part of memory wars against Poland, have to act within education and research initiatives. The process of teaching people some information hygiene never stops and it gets urgent for East and Central Europe countries in terms of hybrid counteracting the Russian Federation. Significant increasing of information flows and information one gets became the reasons for every person and every analytical department to separate information space permanently, because today total amount of information is many times greater than reliable one, proved with facts, researches etc. It is in the part of information space that concerns humanities, where semitruth, or even outright lie are the most easily produced. Information aggression of the Russian Federation is analyzed, and ways and approaches used by Poland to protect its own media space against Russian intrusion, are examined. The Russian Federation attempts to fill information space and Polish society with new stereotypes to provoke most favorable for Russia discussion trends on many issues of political history, are evaluated.

Keywords: memory wars, hybrid war, information aggression, the Russian Federation, Poland, World War II, annexation of Crimea.

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• Poltavets Sergii (V. I. Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine, Ukraine, Kyiv) ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8297-7584

Cite:
Poltavets Sergii (2021). Memory Wars: How Poland Counteract the Russian Federation. Academic Papers of The Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine, (61) 50-62. (In Ukrainan). doi: https://doi.org/10.15407/np.61.050

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