He was a patriot of his country. What does it mean to be patriots? A true patriot of his country

On the eve of the holiday of February 23, Defender of the Fatherland Day, it’s time to talk about patriotic education youth. What do the concepts of “patriot” and “patriotism” mean these days, for example, for modern schoolchildren? The article contains the opinions of the guys themselves.

If for you such concepts as “patriot”, “patriotism”, “feeling of patriotism” are an empty phrase or cause irony, irritation, etc., try to think about this unusual question: is it profitable to be a patriot in our time?
This question is especially appropriate to ask schoolchildren, among whom there are many cynics, in order to get them thinking about a difficult topic. And this can be done on the eve of a class hour or any other event dedicated to instilling a sense of patriotism.

Such questions can attract children to a serious and constructive discussion. At first glance, the question “Is it profitable to be a patriot in our time?” seems rather strange, but it is precisely as a result of this approach (as practice shows) that even a cynic can be forced to think and express his “thought-out” opinion on this matter.
It would be nice to organize a competition for the best answer to this strange question from the guys’ point of view. Let everyone share their opinions.

To the questions “How does patriotism manifest itself?” and “Is it profitable to be a patriot in our time?” The students gave very interesting answers. After generalization and systematization, they look like this.

• Patriotism is manifested in respect for one's country, its past, and the memory of ancestors; in interest in the history of their country, studying the experience of previous generations. And this leads to finding out the causes of many events, which in turn gives knowledge. He who is armed with knowledge is protected from many failures and mistakes, does not waste time correcting them, goes further and overtakes in his development those who “tread on the same rake.” Knowing your history and the experience of previous generations helps you navigate the world, calculate the consequences of your own actions, and feel confident. At all times, people relied on the experience of their predecessors. Without the historical past, neither the present nor the future is possible. According to many classics, “Forgetfulness of the past, historical unconsciousness is fraught with spiritual emptiness both for the individual and for all people.” It is the understanding of the failures and mistakes of the historical past that leads to the achievements and merits of the present, and helps to survive in difficult times. Therefore, it is beneficial to be a patriot.


• Patriotism is manifested in the ability to appreciate and take care of one’s homeland, the desire to change it for the better, to make it cleaner, kinder, more beautiful. For example, it is more pleasant and convenient to walk on clean, repaired roads. Shoes last longer and are less likely to fall. It is also much more pleasant to deal with decent people, rather than with boors and scoundrels. It's nice to enjoy the beauty of nature and human creations, which are not at all difficult to preserve. If a person learns to ennoble himself and the territory surrounding him, life will become happier, psychological comfort will appear, which will allow him to spend his money more efficiently. mental strength, enjoy life and achieve a lot. Therefore, it is beneficial to be a patriot. True patriotism is manifested in the ability to be moral person who create beauty and goodness around themselves.


• Patriotism is manifested in the ability to be faithful and devoted to one’s country, one’s cause, one’s family, one’s views and ideas, one’s dreams. A patriot does not shout at every corner about his passionate love for his homeland, he silently does his job well, remains true to his principles, ideals and universal human values. Thus, he really helps not only his country, but also himself. A person who studied hard, acquiring knowledge, and as a result received Good work, became socially active, built his future, created a full-fledged family, works honestly - did much more for his country than the one who walks around with slogans, chants for patriotism and verbally defends the prestige of his country. People whose sense of patriotism is not developed have no future. They will destroy themselves because they do not develop and do not have a strong “core”. This is the law of life. Patriotism is needed for personal development, for survival. Therefore, it is beneficial to be a patriot.

I really want everyone to understand the following: “ Patriotism as a political, social and moral principle reflects the attitude of a person (citizen) to his country. This attitude is manifested in concern for the interests of one’s fatherland, in readiness for self-sacrifice for it, in loyalty and devotion to one’s country, in pride in its social and cultural achievements, in sympathy for the suffering of one’s people and condemnation of the social vices of society, in respect for the historical past his country and the traditions inherited from him, in a readiness to subordinate his interests to the interests of the country, in an effort to defend his country, his people. A patriot is one who works conscientiously for the good of his country and encourages those around him to do the same, who helps his fellow citizens improve. Without caring about others, you risk being left alone.”

Lesson topic: What does it mean to be a patriot?

Now that the situation in many countries has become quite calm, patriotism is talked about less and less, but in literature and history this phenomenon is very important and vivid.

What does it mean to be a patriot

What it means to be a patriot is to feel patriotism, to experience love in your homeland and to put its interests above your own, this is the desire to do everything possible to preserve it itself, its people and its culture, the desire to protect its interests and borders. Patriotism was not always inherent in the human community, in primitive communities there were no states, but the beginnings of patriotism appeared in the form of attachment to one’s tribe, a sense of kinship and unity with its members, and awareness of oneself as one of them.

• Patriotism performs various functions, it helps to maintain the unity of a certain state or nation, helps to protect it from external unfavorable factors.
• We see especially vivid manifestations of patriotism during military operations, where one person is only a small part of his people and his country, and he himself, feeling this, is able to go to great lengths to protect it, often sacrificing himself for the common good.
• Patriotism is often assessed as positive quality, it is valued and rewarded by the state and the authorities, they write about it in the literature and devote headlines to the means mass media, but not everyone considers it useful and good.
• What it means to be a patriot, according to Leo Tolstoy, is to experience a rude, harmful and immoral feeling of patriotism, which becomes the cause of wars. And there are reasons for this point of view: after all, if the unity of a people is very strong, then a feeling of “we” is formed, which expresses the thought “we are all alike and we need to stick together and protect each other,” while at the same time a feeling of “we” is formed - they,” which tells a person that everyone who does not belong to his people is different, they are not understandable, they are not as good as his compatriots and that means he must defend himself from them and cannot accept their views. Such patriotism turns into radical and becomes nationalism, but it is this that becomes the cause of wars and interethnic conflicts. At the same time, patriotism here is only initial positive feeling.
• Patriotism also had a negative connotation in the Soviet Union, since there a person was left with no other choice; having been born in the USSR, he was obliged to be a patriot, devoted to his state, and if he expressed any ideas that contradicted this, it was punished by the authorities.

Doynikova Valeria

To be a patriot means to work for your country, for your people in their interests, and to be respectful and careful about history and your past.

You cannot be a patriot without feeling a personal connection with your Motherland, without knowing how our ancestors, our fathers and grandfathers loved and cherished it. And we have something to be proud of! Let us remember the feat of the people in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945!

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Essay: “What does it mean to be a patriot”?

The ocean stormed your shore,

The Ural tested our strength,

But with its multi-colored aurora,

Yamal illuminated all of Russia.

We will never give you up

Here are our native cities,

The most important wealth of great Russia

Stay, Yamal, forever!

The movement of time is constant. One generation replaces another. Russia is going through many events. Today in pursuit of material benefits people forget about patriotism, love for the Motherland, and the revival of our society..

To be a patriot means to work for your country, for your people in their interests, and to be respectful and careful about history and your past.

You cannot be a patriot without feeling a personal connection with your Motherland, without knowing how our ancestors, our fathers and grandfathers loved and cherished it. And we have something to be proud of! Let us remember the feat of the people in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945!

Historically, love for the Motherland, patriotism at all times in Russian state were a feature national character. But due to recent changes, the loss of traditional Russian patriotic consciousness in our society has become increasingly noticeable. Philistine philistine concepts, reflected in the saying: “My hut is on the edge, I don’t know anything,” came into life.

The psychological and spiritual state of Russians today is a constant worry about the prospects own life and the lives of your loved ones. The most acute problems that do not allow anyone to breathe freely to an individual, neither average Russian family, neither the region nor the country as a whole. Russians do not feel like masters in their country, they become strangers in it: and in big cities, and in villages forgotten by God and the authorities.

It is necessary that Russian citizens can live in their country, study in their country, work in their country, defend their country and be proud of their country.

What is “patriotism” and what kind of person can be called a patriot? The answer to this question is quite complicated.

Patriotism – high humana feeling, it is so multifaceted in its content that it cannot be defined in a few words. This is love for family and friends, and for the small Motherland, and pride in one’s people, the desire to do specific everyday things to improve the condition of one’s homeland, its embellishment and arrangement (starting from maintaining order, neatness and strengthening friendly relations with neighbors in your apartment, entrance, house, yard until the worthy development of your entire city, region, region, and the Fatherland as a whole).

Patriotism is sacred a feeling that is not necessarily noticeable to others, located deep in the soul (subconscious). Patriotism is judged not by words, but by the deeds of each person. A patriot is not the one who calls himself that, but the one who will be honored as such by others, but above all by his compatriots

Patriotism is a feeling individual , it manifests itself differently for everyone, and everyone understands it differently, but everyone is united by one thing: preserving and strengthening their homeland. Nowadays, the very word “patriot” is sometimes heard with mockery, with irony, which in itself is louder than all the banners calling for patriotism. Or a person, naming his shortcomings or advantages, most often can hear about how honest and smart he is, but few characterize themselves by calling themselves a “patriot”..........

I would like to add, honestly, before I didn’t even think about whether I was a patriot? It turned out that you only need to find out one thing: what is the Motherland for you and does it evoke trembling in your heart?

Russia, Rus' is my great Motherland!

There is a song called “Where the Motherland Begins...”. So, my homeland begins with Yamal, with my hometown, where my closest people live.

Here there are five weathers a day: sowing, blowing, watering, sprinkling. A cloud will creep in and a cold shadow will cover the tundra. Behind it the second one will sprinkle with frequent rain. The third one will drum the ice grains. The fourth one is covered with snow. It’s good if the fifth one passes by - then the sun and warmth will come again.

Beautiful tundra!!!

It is brightest in summer. There are colorful birds in the puddles: white, black, red.

There are bright flowers on the hummocks: blue, red, yellow. But the tundra is best on spring evenings. The plain becomes dark, and the entire vast sky above it turns golden. Endless silence. And time stopped.

Courageous, brave people live in the North. Severe nature requires a person to be courageous, decisive, and strong. In the North, people raise deer. Deer is a very useful animal. He replaces a horse and a car for a person, he gives him meat and warm wool. Reindeer herders graze a herd of reindeer far in the tundra, where the animals find their favorite food - reindeer moss.

In Yamal there live people who are engaged in gas production - gas producers. They produce gas for the country, which people need.

And our tundra is good.
The bushes darken with lynx fur,
Snowflakes are circling slowly,
They sparkle in the sun like beads.

Everything in nature is rational and beautiful, you just need to learn to see this beauty, be able to take care of it, preserve it for future generations. Nature is magnificent in itself, and at the same time, how many gifts it brings to people! Communication with nature brings extraordinary spiritual strength. It is no coincidence that holy people went to remote places to communicate only with God and nature.

Before, I didn’t understand the word Motherland. When my mother said: “If I had wings, I would fly to my homeland,” I didn’t understand her. But three years ago we went to visit her hometown. And I saw how my mother rejoices at every bush, every tree, knows all the paths in the forest, because she was born here, she spent her childhood here. I was happy for my mother. I understood what the Motherland is!

I am proud that I live in Russia, among these forests and fields, I wantfuture generations received from us the same beauty of their native nature!

For this you need endlessly love your land, treat it with care, increasing its wealth.

We all must become better, cleaner, kinder.

Stop hating and blaming Russia for the fact that it cannot give its citizens what other states can give. The life of an entire nation and every person cannot consist only in the search for pleasure. We are surrounded by many homeless, hungry, unemployed, and infirm people.

Yes, we must become more tolerant of each other, forgive voluntary and involuntary mistakes. And then people will believe in the best and be happy! Well, happiness is when you are healthy and your loved ones are healthy, when your family lives in abundance, when you are confident in the future, when you love and are loved. For Russian citizens These values ​​have always been and remain!