Children's song as the element of patriotic education: Soviet experience

The article considers children’s songs of the soviet era as an important element of patriotic education. The author declares that the soviet experience of the formation of system of values in our society, target-oriented work on children’s education by means of mass song could be on demand today. Due to its lyrics and music, children’s song is able to awaken the most sincere feelings and emotions, raise love to the Motherland and respect to its history, it’s heroes and traditions. Children’s song form artistic taste by creating music and images, which can help keep and store traditional moral and cultural values. Today’s target is keeping all the valuable experience of the near past and store it in the new song repertoire that reflects our present.