The influence of the first four presidents of Ukraine on the axiosphere of Ukrainian culture

Abstract

This is the first truly Ukrainian president, as Ivan Drach once said about Viktor Yushchenko. Of course, all presidents have defended the interests of the Ukrainian people, culture, or history to one degree or another. Leonid Kravchuk once received the title of the father of independence from the people. He was the one who insisted on the need to oppose the system, supported the People's Movement of Ukraine, and even wanted to cooperate with it to build a strong and independent Ukraine. However, Kravchuk found himself in a very difficult situation when the country, which had been successfully developing for decades, being economically tied to other countries of the Soviet Union, began to fall apart after its collapse. Entire spheres of the country's life were threatened, and as practice shows, in difficult economic situations, people are not concerned with patriotism, preferring generally accepted social benefits. That is why L. Kravchuk did not go down in history as a patriotic president, but as a president who gained independence and preserved Ukraine in its full territorial composition on his own.