Interpretation Of Ideology

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History always proves two rules. The first one – it teaches nothing. And the second one – it always reveals the victory of winners. So the defeated side always will be descripted like the vicious aggressor and evil, and the winner – gentle warrior of light and the forces of good, who only dreamed about how to bring freedom and happiness to all mankind. When the winner is writing history, he guides by uncomplicated following methods: a) Always tries to show itself as a side initially weak and few( in comparison with innumerable hordes of enemies) b) Is a victim of insidious and vile attacks ( with no declaration of war, of course) c) If paragraphs a) and b) might call some questions from the thoughtful reader, what means they can not be written …show more content…

What conceals the manipulation of historical facts, precisely what are its features? Substitution of historical facts, their distortion, interpretation in a new way can be considered as a form of manipulation of consciousness. They are constantly used by people with power. Typically, when the interpretation of history depends on the policy, because it can help to build ideology. It should be noted that the ideology - is not only the way we tend to think Nazism, socialism, liberalism, etc., and any system of values and beliefs. That is, every government that wants to send the nation into a particular ideological direction, resorting to its own vision of …show more content…

Their effect is negligible immediately, but eventually may be an effective instrument of foreign policy, we are now seeing in Eastern Ukraine. There has always been some people who continued to believe not only in the Soviet, but also in “great emperor” ideals, looking at history one-sidedly, but still lived in independent Ukraine. By the coincidence and assistance of our neighbor they proclaimed the People's Republic ─ as in the twentieth century. In Western Ukraine also like myths We must not forget that the distorted reflection of reality have people in the West. Many believe that in the context of linguistic and cultural specificity mother-Ukraine can only be described by their small native land , and people from the left bank of the Dnieper never love vyshyvanka and wreath. Why? Because they had no Galicia-Volyn state, and they were under the Russian Empire for so long, so have forgotten themselves. This impulse to forget the fact that the formation of the Ukrainian nation began largely from Kharkiv, Shevchenko worked more on the left bank of Dnieper river. History - thing seems simple: figures, events, facts. But its submission - is really wide field of fantasies of our leaders. Historical manipulations used constantly and significantly to help politicians

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