Ateitininkų nuostatos puoselėjant tautinį identitetą

The problem of the national identity was very acute after the collapse of the soviet regime in Lithuania. This happened because it was not fully allowed to practise national virtues on official as well as on daily level during the soviet time. The „homo sovieticus“ species were artificially intruded into the consciousness of Lithuanian citizens. The period of last 15 years is still the time of searching for modern national identity. One way migration from Lithuania to the Western World proves the fact that people do not really feel, what does it mean to be a Lithuanian nowadays. The experience of Ateitininkai in the West keeping the national identity alive could be a good outcome of the Lithuanian identity crisis today. Ateitininkai were an influential catholic youth organization that was established in 1911 in Lithuania. Part of them retreated to the West together with the first wave of Lithuanian emigrants of the Second World War. The same problem of national identity was very important and challenging to all of them. The organization, regenerated abroad, followed the ideas and principles of its predecessors. Ateitininkai actively cooperated in the creation of Lithuanian Diaspora, i.e. the World Lithuanian Community. They assumed the participation in this activity as direct duty arising out of their ideology.[...].

Straipsnyje nagrinėjama ateitininkų samprata lietuvių emigrantų bendruomenės atžvilgiu bei jų pastangos išsaugoti savo identitetą sukuriant stiprios tautinės bendruomenės – diasporos – veikimo modelį po Antrojo pasaulinio karo. Taip pat pateikiamos lietuviškumo išsaugojimo programinės gairės. Straipsnis parašytas remiantis J. Girniaus, M. Krupavičiaus, A. Maceinos, A. Sužiedėlio ir kitų ateitininkų idėjų teorine analize.