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The article presents the analysis of cognitive-rhetoric, semantic (mainly presuppositional) and communicative-language peculiarities of the post-totalitarian discourse based on the material of radical right-wing and left-wing publications in Ukraine at the end of the 20th century — the beginning of the 21 century. Rhetoric specificity of such a discourse is its ritual monologicity; presuppositional model of the addressee is „our lot” and „enemy.” The most important communicative-language peculiar features are pseudo-equivalence, conrariety of antonymic ties, the presence of constant epithets, descriptions and expressives.