LANGUAGE "LOCKDOWN" AS A MEAN OF TOTALITARIAN MANIPULATIONS
Journal: Bulletin of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv Philosophy
Year: 2022

This article explores the role of language and ideology in Soviet philosophy and education. The author argues that the Soviet regime deliberately used philosophy as a tool for manipulation, with the aim of creating a common understanding that Marxism and Leninism are the only true doctrines of philosophy. The course of philosophy was mandatory at all levels of education and was fully standardized, with a focus on scientific grounds that only Marxist philosophy was valid. The article also highlig