Censorship in the Soviet Union in conditions of detente (1970s)
The purpose of this article is to review the state of censorship in the USSR in the 1970s and how it affected the development of public opinion in the country in terms of international detente. The author comes to the conclusion that the main function of censorship policy of the Soviet state was the defense of the socialist ideology in society. In the conditions of detente will strengthen the resistance of the USSR and the U.S., which increased the work of censorship in the country. Formation of public opinion has been one of the main tasks of the ideological struggle between the socialist and capitalist systems in the 1970s.