The education system as a tool of anti-religious propaganda late 1940s - mid 1960s in Ukraine

Abstract

Under the communist regime of the 1940s – 1960s, when party leaders persistently sought out ideological enemies and improved methods of anti-religious struggle, children and adolescents became the most vulnerable stratum of the population from propaganda bombardment. Among them, a particularly vulnerable and at the same time stable group of children of believers stands out. Educational institutions of the education system from elementary school to universities have become the area of purposeful atheistic anti-religious education. Declarative statements by the government on granting citizens freedom of religion were leveled by the implementation of a policy of eradicating all religious manifestations as reactionary phenomena incompatible with socialist ideals. The study of the problem of the ideologization of education helps to understand the process of forming a negative sociopolitical image of Christianity in Ukraine and has a pragmatic side in the context of revising the ideological foundations of modern national education.