CONCEPTS-POLITONYMS AS A REVEAL OF THE POLITICAL “WE IMAGE”

Abstract

INTRODUCTION Concepts-politonyms clarify the Ukrainian understanding of freedom connected to the native land in both nation of sowers and nation of warriors’ consciousness. Thus, land for Ukrainians appears to be not just the provision source but also the source of vital internal power, invincibility of the national spirit as well as the personal territory of freedom. The Ukrainian cordocentric soul always considered the land to be sacred and consequently the vision of land-mother turns up. I. Franko says: My native land of fertility Give me the power living in you For not to fall in a battle 1 ... In this context it is clearly seen the unbreakable connection between the two concepts – freedom which is necessary to gain in a fight and land. The protection of mother-land becomes the issue of dignity and honor despite the obvious defeat in unfair struggle. The failure however is just physical and never moral or psychological. The realized duty to the godchosen land gives a human power to become undefeatable and free. A. Camus admitted in his book that freedom is not a privilege but responsibility. This is internal dimension of freedom. The internal freedom acquires the essential value in case of absence of external freedom (some rights given by the state, society and the support of their realization) when the native land suffers from hostile invasion. The vision was characteristic of the rebellious Ukrainians at the time of liberation struggle. “Their highest ideal which served the inspiration for the exploits of sacrifice” according to the participants of the liberation movement were God and Ukraine 2 . We may answer the question why the chthonic feature that is the unbreakable merge with the native land in need of being protected as well as the right to save the personality uniqueness on this land, the right of the national identity became the most relevant feature of the Ukrainian nature. The fundamental reason of the Ukrainian liberation movement was the moral requirement to protect the land of