Abstract
The chapter deals with the important instrument of propaganda - creating enemy images. It deals with the theoretic aspects of enemy image on the example of the communist propaganda in Czechoslovakia in years 1948-1956.
The enemy image is an anthropological constant, it has existed since the beginning of human history. Creating of enemy images is associated with the creation of the images of the other.
The person finds his identity in the demarcation with the other. This mechanism works also in formation of collective identities.
The person identifies himself with the idealized image of his own group and define the foreign group as the enemy. Internal problems of society are solved through the externalization of the negative characteristics into the images of external enemy.
This helps to preserve integrity of own group. Communist propaganda used the images of enemy to form a new collective identity - a new socialist man.
The image of the enemy was changed during the time and used stereotypes - for example the image of the enemy Germans.