THE STRUGGLE OF THE TOTALITARIAN REGIME AGAINST THE ETHNIC IDENTITY OF UKRAINIANS BY MEANS OF ATHEISM IN THE EDUCATIONAL SPACE IN THE 20S AND 30S OF THE 20TH CENTURY

The Muscovite Empire has been waging a war with Ukrainian identity for centuries, which prompts our people to fierce resistance. Soviet authorities tried impose new type of on us, educate the youth in respect everything Russian and disdain native. policy unification was actively pursued. Today, educational space Ukraine is freed from Moscow yoke at same time tries weaken influence globalization processes. Ethnic component national identity. sphere sacred, manifested concepts family, lineage, native house, land, song, word, dialect, community, tradition, rite, ritual. Atheistic upbringing education destroyed cultural, especially folklore memory people. All disciplines were filled anti-religious content. nationally conscious intelligentsia resisted militant atheism field education. main blow work directed against family holidays. Teachers intensified their atheistic during major holidays: so-called “Saturdays” necessarily organized Christian society entered into duel independence. And this struggle, prominent place belongs educators. experience past should serve us present.
 Keywords: atheism; identity; ethnic Ukrainization; atheist upbringing; communist education; pedagogical intelligentsia; values; Cordocentrism; Sophianism; atheism.