DETERMINANTS OF THE PHENOMENON OF DECEITFULNESS IN TOTALITARIAN REGIMES

Abstract

Summary. The purpose of the article is to clarify the reasons that cause the falsity of totalitarian regimes, in particular, to identify the conditions that entail the deceitful nature of information interactions in territorial empires. The research method consisted in performing the following cognitive actions: 1) creating an unambiguous conceptual apparatus of research, i.e. definition of terms: lie, deceitfulness, empire, metropolis, metropolitan ethnos, colony, colonial ethnos, territorial empire, maritime empire; 2) creation of a model of interaction between the metropolis and the colony in conditions when the ethnos of the metropolis hides the essence of its actions from the colonial ethnos; 3) identification of those areas of information interaction in the territorial empire, in which constant misinformation is objectively used; 4) identification of those branches of information interaction in the land empire, in which misinformation occurs during the periodic expansions carried out by such an empire. Scientific novelty. Three models of antagonistic interaction of human communities have been created: 1) external destructive interaction due to the direct destruction of the victim's ethnic group; 2) internal destructive interaction (through the invasion of the aggressor without armed intervention); 3) combined destructive interaction – first external, and then internal. Those areas of activity in territorial empires, in which there are objective conditions, and, consequently, a high probability of constant disinformation, are identified. Such branches include the knowledge that is needed to deprive the colonial ethnic group of identity, that is, history, culture, language. The directions of disinformation accompanying the expansive policy of territorial empires, which primarily include the dehumanization of the object of aggression, are identified. Conclusions. It is substantiated that in territorial empires there are objective reasons for constant disinformation both in internal and external information interactions.