After aggression against Ukraine, Russian propaganda was part of a broader concept of the use of soft power, formulated in Russia in the 21st century. The article shows the creation of the structures of the propaganda, whose main aim was the Federal Republic of Germany. The analysis of this propaganda focuses on the use of anti-Americanism, and such political milieus in Germany as Alternative for Germany and some organizations related to the populist -nationalistic conservatism. Attention is drawn to the role that Russia would like to assign to Russlanddeutsche, i.e. to persons of German nationality who resettled to Germany from the former Soviet Union since the 1980s. The end date is 2016, which brought significant changes in this issue. It is then that German public opinion, media, politicians and the relevant state institutions recognized the importance of the Russian propaganda and partially successful Russian attempts to manipulate sentiments in Germany.
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