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    In the Clamp of Totalitarism: Special Department ‘Vineta’ and its Ukrainian Staff Members. Historical And Biographical And Prosopographical Notes
    (2024) Yashyn Vadym Oleksandrovych; Яшин Вадим Олександрович
    The article establishes, identifies and attributes the biographies of a part of the personnel of the special department ‘Vineta’ of the Ministry of Education and Propaganda of the Reich, and examines the common elements of the biographies of the staff members of the Ukrainian editorial office and the translation staff of this special department.The goal of the article is to establish and identify the personnel of the Ukrainian translation staff of the central (Berlin) apparatus of the ‘Vineta’ special department of the Ministry of Education and Propaganda of the Reich in 1941-1944, their biographical attribution, establishing the presence and research of the nature of their interpersonal and corporate ties, common elements and features of biographies. The methodological basis of the research was the principles of objectivity, historicism, and systematicity. The methods of historical-typological, historical-biographical and prosopographic research are applied.Scientific novelty of the publication. For the first time, the biographies of a part of the personnel of the special department ‘Vineta’ of the Ministry of Education and Propaganda of the Reich were established, identified and attributed, and the common elements of the biographies of the staff of the Ukrainian editorial office and the translation staff of the special department wereinvestigated. It is shown that the staff of ‘Vineta’ included well-known linguists, philologists, literary experts, translators, journalists, artists, etc., participants in liberation struggles and activists of political emigration. The article summarizes the data and examines the elements of the ‘Vinetа’ stage of their life path, establishes unknown facts of their pre-war biographies, common and similar features of the latter.Conclusions. Ukrainian intellectuals, artists or high-level specialists were invited to work in the Ukrainian editorial office of the ‘Vineta’ special department. The common biographical feature of the staff is intellectual creative activity, pursuit of literature, journalism, fine arts, etc. in Europe or the USSR; repression by the Soviet authorities. Most of them worked in educational and scientific institutions in Berlin, Prague, Warsaw, Kyiv, etc. during the interwar period. The participants of the Ukrainian Revolution of Liberation identified in the article were veterans of the 3rdIron Division of the Active Army of the Ukrainian People’s Republic. The corporate connections of the rest were: participation in political activities, membership in political organizations, joint professional, scientific and artistic activities. In the post-war period, a certain number of staff members settled in Munich and/or left for Canada, the USA, Argentina and Australia. Most of the former employees of the special branch continued their activities even after the war in the fields of politics, economy and culture.
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    Under the Pressure of No Escape: Invisible Lives. Actors and Artists in the Vineta Special Department
    (2026) Yashyn Vadym Oleksandrovych; Яшин Вадим Олександрович
    The article aims to investigate the activities of the special department Vineta of the Eastern Division of the Reich Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda during World War II, focusing on its dual role as a propaganda and cultural control institution. By analyzing the biographies of actors and artists involved in Vineta’s entertainment and propaganda programs, the study seeks to reveal the phenomenon of “forced creativity” as a survival strategy under totalitarian coercion. The research highlights how artistic practices, often perceived as voluntary cultural production, became instruments of adaptation, survival, or escape in the context of oppressive political systems. Scientific novelty. For the first time, the phenomenon of “forced creativity” in the activities of Vineta is systematically analyzed through the cases of artists from Kryvyi Rih and Dnipropetrovsk. The article demonstrates how art, instead of being a space of free expression, was transformed into a tool of survival, adaptation, or resistance. It also reveals the problem of “invisibility” of human destinies, when suffering and coercion remained outside public attention and became known only through historical reconstruction. The novelty lies in the integration of biographical evidence with the analysis of cultural policy, which makes it possible to conceptualize collaboration, coercion, and resistance not as abstract categories but as lived experiences of ordinary individuals. Conclusions. Vineta’s cultural policy functioned as an instrument of ideological control, but at the same time created a space for individual survival strategies. The biographies of artists illustrate the complexity of moral choices between collaboration, forced participation, and resistance. The methodological combination of biographical and prosopographical approaches makes it possible not only to reconstruct individual destinies but also to identify typical models of behavior under totalitarian pressure. This approach deepens the understanding of “forced creativity” and “invisibility” as phenomena that shaped the cultural and social history of the twentieth century. The article thus contributes to the broader discourse on hidden dimensions of history, restoring forgotten names and emphasizing the importance of micro-historical perspectives in the study of totalitarian regimes.