The relevance of the study is determined by the current crisis phenomena in the worldview of the European world in general, in particular, and in Ukraine, which strategic development is aimed at the European integration. Problem statement - involves the analysis of such negative ideological factors as disorientation, blurriness, falsity of content, relativism, mistaken interpretations, etc., as well as revealing world-view prerequisites for gaining state independence from the point of view of historical retrospective. The main purpose of the paper is to compare historically the ideological priorities and contradictions of the Polish and Ukrainian people in the context of difficult relationship under the conditions of geopolitical neighborhood and strategic partnership, and also based on the necessity of defining historical truth both in the mutual relations of two peoples, for the purpose of successful internal development and for development of a strategy for the development of the Ukrainian state, whose independence and integrity are threatened to this day. The selection of unexamined parts of the general problem is based on a wide array of world-wide scientific explorations, in which the ideological priorities of the Ukrainian people have been studied, mainly without regard to the European and Western-Slavic context, since the principles of the Eastern Orthodox worldview, attitude and priorities as well as a significant specificity in relation to the pan-European, and in our study - the Polish, formed by universal Christianity (Catholicism). The analysis of recent researches and publications testifies to the active interest and wide-ranging study of the problem of ideological foundations, as confirmed by domestic intelligence (A. Kolodny, L. Filipovich, P. Yarotsky, V. Zhadko, V. Voronkova), and by the latest researches of leading scientists of the world (Paris Declaration, report of the Rome Club). The methodology involves the use of systematic, structural-functional, comparative, hermeneutic, axiological and other methods and approaches that allowed to analyze deeply the outlined problems and formulate the optimal way of world-view forming priorities of the Ukrainian people through the revival of the social role of the family, reformed education, churches etc. The presentation of the main material is presented in the context of historical facts and events; attention is constantly paid to the comprehension of their ideological preconditions and consequences that influenced the formation of the civil society of the western world, in particular, Poland, as well as the current state and perspectives of the world-view priorities of the Ukrainian people, which testifies to it. Possibilities of philosophical analysis allowed formulating theoretical conclusions and developing practical recommendations for the development the strategic concept of the optimal and harmonious interaction of the two peoples, the prospects for development, which are connected with the development of a true Europe, which can be believed