The victory of the Soviet people in the Great Patriotic War was the greatest event of the modern era. The defeat of Nazi Germany meant not just a military defeat of the Nazis. The greatness of our Victory lies in the fact that it convincingly demonstrated the invincible strength of the socialist social and state system. Our socialist ideology was a powerful spiritual weapon during the war years. "The victory in the Great Patriotic War," says the CPSU Central Committee resolution on the 40th anniversary of the Victory, "confirmed the powerful vitality of the Marxist-Leninist ideology." 1 This determines the great importance of the experience of the ideological work of the CPSU during the Great Patriotic War, the need for its in-depth research, drawing lessons and conclusions from it. Soviet social scientists have done a great deal of research on the rich experience of the party's ideological activities at the front and in the rear during the war. These issues are covered in chapters of multi-volume generalizing works 2 , in special monographs 3, as well as in articles in scientific journals. Special attention is paid to the party's activities in the ideological education of Soviet people, army and navy soldiers during the Great Patriotic War, the analysis of the main directions of ideological work, its content, forms and methods in the fifth volume of the multi-volume History of the CPSU and the fundamental multi-volume work on the history of the Second World War. In nine of the twelve volumes, questions of the CPSU's struggle on the ideological front are divided into special chapters and paragraphs. An important place in the study of this topic is occupied by collective works devoted to party and political work in the Soviet Armed Forces during the Great Patriotic War4 . A distinctive feature of these works is the display of party-political, ideological, and social values.- 1 Pravda, 17. VI. 1984. 2 History of the Great Patriotic War of the Soviet Union 1941-1945. V ... Читать далее