Deformation of public consciousness in community of Buryatia under the conditions of big terror

This article is devoted to the media's reflection of some aspects in the general situation of the collective worldview of the Buryat-Mongolian ASSR in the 1930s. At the time when arrests of people from various social strata, professions and age were going on all over the country, newspapers, radio and cinema persistently popularized the construction of socialist society that should have been free from the shortcomings of the past. The unsuccessful actions of the Soviet authorities in the field of total collectivization at the very beginning of the 1930s, the failure of the first five-year plan for the development of the national economy, the decline in the standard of living of the urban and especially of the rural population, the apparent inconsistency and unilateralism of the method of socialist realism in culture - all this was zealously retouched, or if it was not possible, then the blame was treated as a sabotage, or failure of the local authorities, of the cultural and intellectual elite. Besides, it allowed the central government to justify the existence in the country the socalled.enemies of the people., who prevent the country from finally reaching a communist society and advanced positions in the world. These processes did not bypass the Buryat-Mongolian ASSR. In the 1930s in Buryatia, it was also a final shift in the vector of the attitude of Soviet power to Orthodoxy, Buddhism, shamanism and the Old Believers. If, beginning with the end of the Civil War, there was a campaign to provide atheism the population, which at one moment faded, at another again intensified, then in the 1930s, the clergy underwent repressions, and churches and datsans were closed at a large scale.The mass media, mean while, carefully formed the idea that the absolute majority of the population of the republic approved of the authorities’actions in this direction and itself was the source to emphasize such actions.