1. “The bigger the lie, the sooner they will believe it.”(J. Goebbels).
The world's liberal media attribute this quote to PJ Goebbels, who never say that. This quote is taken from Adolf Hitler’s book “My Struggle”, about the role of the liberal Jewish media in the destruction of Germany and its defeat in the First World War (“Mein Kampf”, ch. 10): “These gentlemen proceed from the calculation that what The more monstrous their lies, the sooner they will believe them.” After its “refinement”, the quote acquired the exact opposite meaning. But there is something for everyone famous aphorism, the author of which is Paul Joseph Goebbels, the phrase has firmly entered the Russian language, but no one knows who invented it. "Everything ingenious is simple"(J. Goebbels, article “Twenty Advice to a Dictator and Those Who Want to Become One,” 1932)
2. "USSR - Upper Volta with missiles"(Helmut Schmidt, Chancellor of Germany in 1974-82)
There is no evidence of where or when he said this.
Most likely, the authors of the aphorism are Western journalists. Perhaps it was first publicly voiced by Financial Times journalist David Buchan in the article “Soviet Export of Technology” dated September 14, 1984. Be that as it may, the phrase became a catchphrase, because accurately reflected the essence of the USSR: military power to the detriment of everything else.
3. “No person, no problem”(I.V. Stalin)
Another version of the same aphorism: “We don’t have irreplaceable people.” Stalin did not say anything like that. Both phrases were invented by Soviet writers. “There is a person - there is a problem, there is no person - there is no problem” - this is from Anatoly Rybakov’s novel “Children of the Arbat” (1987). And “there are no irreplaceable people” - from Alexander Korneychuk’s play “Front” (1942). Moreover, Korneychuk, a Ukrainian Soviet playwright and 5-time (!) laureate of the Stalin Prize in the field of art, was also NOT the author of this aphorism. He only translated into Russian the slogan of the times French Revolution 1789-94 The Commissioner of the Convention, Joseph Le Bon, responded with this phrase to a petition for pardon from an aristocrat.
In 1793, the Viscount de Ghiselin, arrested for political unreliability, asked to spare his life, since his education and experience could still be useful to the Republic (as he thought). To which the Jacobin commissioner replied: “There are no irreplaceable people in the Republic!” It is interesting that two years after that, in 1795, other revolutionaries sent Commissar Le Bon himself to the guillotine.
4. "Stalin took Russia with a plow, but left with an atomic bomb"(Winston Churchill).
Churchill never said that. Although on the basis of the military alliance of 1941-45. really treated Stalin with respect. Even in the Fulton speech on March 5, 1946, which began the Cold War between the West and the USSR, Churchill said: “I deeply admire and honor the valiant Russian people and my wartime comrade, Marshal Stalin.” This, however, did not prevent Churchill from accusing the USSR of instilling communism and tyranny in the same speech. Eastern Europe. By the way, the expression “iron curtain” came from this same speech.
As for the phrase about the plow and atomic bomb, its true author is the Stalinist Nina Andreeva from St. Petersburg, the author of the sensational article “I Can’t Give Up Principles” in her time (Soviet Russia newspaper, March 13, 1988). She cited it as a "Churchill quote." The quote turned out to be false.
5. “I thought that I would die of old age. But when Russia, which fed all of Europe with bread, began to buy grain, I realized that I would die of laughter” (Winston Churchill).
For the first time, the USSR began purchasing grain from the West on a large scale (more than 1 million tons) - in 1963. The scale grew and in 1984 reached 46 million tons. Churchill died in 1965, having lived to 90 years. Indeed, in his lifetime, he found Russia the world's largest exporter of grain (1900-1913), and saw the beginning of the reverse process - how the USSR began to turn into the world's largest importer of bread. There is only one problem: Churchill did NOT say this.
6. “Don’t spare the soldiers, the women are still giving birth!”(Marshal Zhukov).
Zhukov did not say this. Here again is the case when the “author” of the quote did not utter such words, but in fact acted exactly like that. The true author of "Women Are Still Giving Birth" is unknown.
7.
"The Franco-Prussian War was won by the Germans school teacher"
(Otto von Bismarck).
A popular phrase with the implication that a nation superior to its enemy in education and general culture, wages war more effectively. However, Chancellor Bismarck did not say this. This was said by a professor of geography from Leipzig, Oskar Peschel, and not about the Franco-Prussian War (1870-71), but about the Austro-Prussian War (1866), in which the Germans also won. In July 1866, Oskar Peschel wrote in one of his newspaper articles: “...Public education plays decisive role in the war... When the Prussians beat the Austrians, it was a victory of the Prussian teacher over the Austrian schoolteacher." This attention to learning was retained by the Germans later. A Russian officer in Tsarist Russia studied at a military school for 2 years, as long as the Germans had a sergeant major .
8. “When I hear the word “culture,” my hand reaches for a gun.”(Hermann Goering).
Goering did not say this. This is a phrase from the play "Schlageter" by playwright Hans Jost (1933). After World War I, the victorious Allies occupied the Rhineland, Germany's main industrial region. The country capitulated, the monarchy collapsed, the Kaiser fled, everyone reconciled. But the German patriot, Albert Schlageter, is a former front-line officer. continued to fight. He was derailing French trains. He was caught by the French and shot in 1923.
In the play by Hans Jost, main character discusses with his friend whether it is worth spending time on studying (getting involved in the culture) if the country is under occupation. The friend replies that it is better to fight than to study and that at the word “culture” he releases the safety of his Browning. And from this phrase, after a series of “creative” ideological revisions by the victors in World War II, Goering’s “quote” came out.
9. "Russia is a prison of nations"(V.I. Lenin).
In the USSR, this phrase was often used in propaganda to compare the Tsarist and Soviet Russia. There is an empire where non-Russian nationalities were oppressed, here there is a voluntary union and friendship of peoples. Lenin actually used this aphorism in his works, but he was not its author.
The book was a great success in Europe. Almost the same as the previously published book by another Frenchman, Alexis de Tocqueville, about his trip to the USA (“Democracy in America”, 1835). Only de Custine came and spat, and Tocqueville, on the contrary, sang defamations of the USA: the Anglo-Americans as a nation were originally born in freedom, equality, where their successes and great future come from, etc. Zbigniew Brzezinski once said that to understand Russian-American relations it is enough to read only 2 books: de Custine about Russia and de Tocqueville about the USA.
10. "Who are these gentlemen National Socialists? - Murderers and pederasts"(Benito Mussolini).
In 1934 in Austria, Austrian national patriots killed Chancellor Dollfuss (an opponent of the reunification of Austria with Germany), with whom the Duce had good relationship. Well, Mussolini threw out this phrase in his heart. In fact, it was said in an editorial in the newspaper "Il Popolo di Roma" ("The People of Rome"), which was the mouthpiece of the Italian Fascist Party. It sharply condemned the murder of the chancellor and said that the criminals were connected “with murderers and pederasts in Berlin.”
This was an allusion to Ernst Röhm, the leader of the German stormtroopers, who was homosexual. This was the sharpest attack by Italian fascists against German National Socialists in the entire history of their relationship. But Mussolini himself did not say this.
Bismarck said that the Franco-Prussian war was won by a German teacher. It was he who raised the future German soldier, instilled in him love for the fatherland, devotion to his state, sublime faith and honor.
Great Patriotic War The Soviet teacher won. It was he who, in huge cities and tiny villages, in mountain villages and villages, taught children not only mathematics, spelling and the laws of physics, he taught them to love their Motherland, raised in them a future writer, pilot or explorer. He taught me to help my comrades and love them, to be brave, selfless and sincere. It was Soviet teachers who raised the heroic Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya, the fearless Alexander Matrosov, the brave pilots Gastello and Talalikhin, the unforgettable Young Guards, the unyielding Panfilovites who threw themselves with grenades under the tracks of fascist tanks.
The Soviet state was already at its conception, when the grueling Civil war, opened universities and scientific centers, gave knowledge and science the status state religion. The state saw its great creative goals and directed young people towards these goals. And they created the mighty Soviet factories, turned into a generation of engineers who built the world's best ships, planes and tanks. It was these young people who mastered the Arctic, Siberia and Far East. They carried out a grandiose atomic project, created the space industry, made Soviet Union superpower.
The young man was being prepared to become a creator, a hero, a winner. They taught him to sacrifice his own for the sake of the universal, to sacrifice even his life for the sake of his great Motherland and his great people. At the center of Soviet ideology was a man-creator, a creator, striving for the future.
When the Soviet Union fell, everything fell with it: the technosphere, the sovereign external and domestic politics, army, defense and education. Education has fallen. The first generation of post-perestroika children was called the “Pepsi generation.” It was bad and meaningless. He was interested in music, sex and drugs. It did not despise society and the state - it simply did not notice them. It lived in a spiritless space. His religious paraphernalia included sour jeans, a beer-slurping stomach, hallucinogenic music and veins punctured with syringes.
The next generation of young people was different. It sought to realize itself in a career, in finance. It wanted to become the richest, to overtake others in the race for success, to surpass the inept and weak. The idols of this generation were rich people, businessmen, and show business stars. The ideals of these young people were in California's Silicon Valley, in Hollywood or Las Vegas - their idols lived overseas. But here, in impoverished Russia, filled with chaos and nonsense, there was no place for success. These young people loved America, loved sleek Europe and despised their homeland. They were raised to despise native history, which was interpreted as a dead-end path for humanity, to domestic leaders and chiefs, who were portrayed as executioners and paranoids. To one's own people - unprofitable and unnecessary. And all the upbringing, all the education pushed young people outside of Russia, gave their minds and knowledge to the service of another civilization.
However, as the Russian state rose from the ashes and the state began to need active diplomats, managers, engineers, and military personnel, it became obvious that there were almost no such citizens in Russia. And the state began to pay more and more attention to their reproduction. It was necessary to build defense factories, and for this we needed engineers. It was necessary to build diplomacy amid the painful conflicts of the world, and this required experienced humanists, experts in history and religion. It was necessary to fight the proliferation of theft and corruption. It was necessary to contrast service to the Motherland with its plunder, love for the Motherland with hatred of it.
The level of knowledge in Russia has fallen sharply. Young people were cut off from the sublime Russian classics, from the deep foundations of history. They no longer knew who Princess Olga and Saint Prince Vladimir were. Who are Karamzin and Klyuchevsky? They didn’t know how Tolstoy’s “War and Peace” ended and who wrote “The Tale of a Real Man.” This degradation was associated with the educational process, which previous ministers either could not or did not want to improve.
The appointment as Minister of Education of Olga Yuryevna Vasilyeva, a Russian historian, an expert on religions, who has a keen sense of the multinational character of our great power, who owns the codes Russian history, Russian destiny, Russian statehood, this appointment was received with joy by all patriotic circles of Russia. In connection with her appointment, we expect profound changes in the very approaches to the upbringing and education of Russian youth.
Not only Russian historians, theologians or writers are happy about this appointment. We are happy about the military, who are in dire need of a patriotically minded officer and soldier. Scientists rejoice, reviving domestic science engineering. The whole society, tired of corruption and depravity, rejoices.
The entire liberal army rebelled against her appointment. Her persecution began in newspapers and radio stations. They insult, humiliate, and almost call her a fascist. Enclosed in a cocoon of hatred. In the nineties, I experienced this persecution myself, I know how much strength it takes. How hard it is to resist her, how difficult it is to maintain dignity, will, honor. Olga Vasilyeva, I have no doubt, will withstand this formidable test, because not only she, but our entire country is going through this test.
Let the young man who graduated from our high school, knows who Princess Olga and Saint Prince Vladimir are. Who are Pushkin and Chaadaev? Zhukov and Karbyshev. Let them not be afraid to pronounce the name Stalin or Ivan Vasilyevich the Terrible. Let them mourn the execution of Nicholas II and celebrate the capture of Berlin by Soviet troops.
History breathes not only in the past, but also in the present. And today, mother history feeds the Russian state. It is not subject to blasphemy and shame.
Bismarck said that the Franco-Prussian war was won by a German teacher. It was he who raised the future German soldier, instilled in him love for the fatherland, devotion to his state, sublime faith and honor.
The Great Patriotic War was won by a Soviet teacher. It was he who, in huge cities and tiny villages, in mountain villages and villages, taught children not only mathematics, spelling and the laws of physics, he taught them to love their Motherland, raised in them a future writer, pilot or explorer. He taught me to help my comrades and love them, to be brave, selfless and sincere. It was Soviet teachers who raised the heroic Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya, the fearless Alexander Matrosov, the brave pilots Gastello and Talalikhin, the unforgettable Young Guards, the unyielding Panfilovites who threw themselves with grenades under the tracks of fascist tanks.
The Soviet state, already at its conception, when the grueling Civil War was still going on, opened universities and scientific centers, gave knowledge and science the status of a state religion. The state saw its great creative goals and directed young people towards these goals. And they created the mighty Soviet factories, turned into a generation of engineers who built the world's best ships, planes and tanks. It was these young people who explored the Arctic, Siberia and the Far East. They carried out a grandiose atomic project, created the space industry, and made the Soviet Union a superpower.
The young man was being prepared to become a creator, a hero, a winner. They taught him to sacrifice his own for the sake of the universal, to sacrifice even his life for the sake of his great Motherland and his great people. At the center of Soviet ideology was a man-creator, a creator, striving for the future.
When the Soviet Union fell, everything fell with it: the technosphere, sovereign foreign and domestic policy, the army, defense and education. Education has fallen. The first generation of post-perestroika children was called the “Pepsi generation.” It was bad and meaningless. He was interested in music, sex and drugs. It did not despise society and the state - it simply did not notice them. It lived in a spiritless space. His religious paraphernalia included sour jeans, a beer-slurping stomach, hallucinogenic music and veins punctured with syringes.
The next generation of young people was different. It sought to realize itself in a career, in finance. It wanted to become the richest, to overtake others in the race for success, to surpass the inept and weak. The idols of this generation were rich people, businessmen, and show business stars. The ideals of these young people were in California's Silicon Valley, in Hollywood or Las Vegas - their idols lived overseas. But here, in impoverished Russia, filled with chaos and nonsense, there was no place for success. These young people loved America, loved sleek Europe and despised their homeland. They were brought up with contempt for their native history, which was interpreted as a dead-end path for humanity, and for domestic leaders and chiefs, who were portrayed as executioners and paranoids. To one's own people - unprofitable and unnecessary. And all the upbringing, all the education pushed young people outside of Russia, gave their minds and knowledge to the service of another civilization.
However, as the Russian state rose from the ashes and the state began to need active diplomats, managers, engineers, and military personnel, it became obvious that there were almost no such citizens in Russia. And the state began to pay more and more attention to their reproduction. It was necessary to build defense factories, and for this we needed engineers. It was necessary to build diplomacy amid the painful conflicts of the world, and this required experienced humanists, experts in history and religion. It was necessary to fight the proliferation of theft and corruption. It was necessary to contrast service to the Motherland with its plunder, love for the Motherland with hatred of it.
The level of knowledge in Russia has fallen sharply. Young people were cut off from the sublime Russian classics, from the deep foundations of history. They no longer knew who Princess Olga and Saint Prince Vladimir were. Who are Karamzin and Klyuchevsky? They didn’t know how Tolstoy’s “War and Peace” ended and who wrote “The Tale of a Real Man.” This degradation was associated with the educational process, which previous ministers either could not or did not want to improve.
The appointment as Minister of Education of Olga Yurievna Vasilyeva, a Russian historian, an expert on religions, who has a keen sense of the multinational character of our great power, who owns the codes of Russian history, Russian destiny, Russian statehood, this appointment was received with joy by all patriotic circles of Russia. In connection with her appointment, we expect profound changes in the very approaches to the upbringing and education of Russian youth.
Not only Russian historians, theologians or writers are happy about this appointment. We are happy about the military, who are in dire need of a patriotically minded officer and soldier. Scientists who are reviving domestic science and engineering rejoice. The whole society, tired of corruption and depravity, rejoices.
The entire liberal army rebelled against her appointment. Her persecution began in newspapers and radio stations. They insult, humiliate, and almost call her a fascist. Enclosed in a cocoon of hatred. In the nineties, I experienced this persecution myself, I know how much strength it takes. How hard it is to resist her, how difficult it is to maintain dignity, will, honor. Olga Vasilyeva, I have no doubt, will withstand this formidable test, because not only she, but our entire country is going through this test.
Let the young man who graduated from our high school know who Princess Olga and Saint Prince Vladimir are. Who are Pushkin and Chaadaev? Zhukov and Karbyshev. Let them not be afraid to pronounce the name Stalin or Ivan Vasilyevich the Terrible. Let them mourn the execution of Nicholas II and celebrate the capture of Berlin by Soviet troops.
History breathes not only in the past, but also in the present. And today, mother history feeds the Russian state. It is not subject to blasphemy and shame.
1. The revolution is prepared by geniuses, carried out by fanatics, and its fruits are enjoyed by scoundrels
2. Politics is the art of adapting to circumstances and extracting benefit from everything, even from what is disgusting
3. Politics is the art of the possible
4. Politics is not an exact science.
5. Freedom is a luxury that not everyone can afford
6. Always beware of building castles in the air, because although these buildings are the easiest to build, they are the hardest to destroy
7. Study as if you were to live forever; live as if you are going to die tomorrow
8. They never lie so much as during the war, after the hunt and before the elections.
9. One and only one person must be responsible for every assigned task.
10. In diplomatic parlance, joining in principle is simply a polite way of refusing.
11. We are all people, and so is the government.
12. Russians take a long time to harness, but travel quickly
13. Stupidity is a gift from God, but it should not be abused
14. All you have to do is put Germany in the saddle, and she will be able to gallop
15. The government should not hesitate. Once having chosen the road, it must, without looking right or left, go to the end
16. With bad laws and good officials it is quite possible to rule the country. But if the officials are bad, even the best laws will not help
17. With a gentleman I will always be half a great gentleman, with a swindler I will always be half a great swindler
18. Friendship between a man and a woman becomes very weak when night falls.
19. Never plot anything against Russia, because she will respond to every cunning of yours with her unpredictable stupidity
20. Even a victorious war is an evil that must be prevented by the wisdom of nations
21. Woe to that statesman who does not take the trouble to find a basis for war that will still retain its significance even after the war
22. The only healthy basis for a great state is state egoism, and not romance, and it is unworthy of a great power to fight for a cause that does not concern its own interests
23. I was destined by nature to become a diplomat. The fact is that I was born on the first of April
24. Poles are poets in politics and politicians in poetry
25. Life has taught me to forgive a lot, but even more - to seek forgiveness
26. Absolutism requires from the ruler, first of all, impartiality, honesty, fidelity to duty, efficiency and modesty
27. War against Russia - suicide due to fear of death
28. We cannot make history. Setting your clock forward does not mean speeding up the passage of time.
29. Russia is dangerous due to the meagerness of its needs
30. The government should not hesitate. Once having chosen the road, it must, without looking right or left, go to the end
31. You need to show everyone as much kindness as, firstly, you can do yourself, and then as much as the one you love and whom you help can accept it.
32. Even the most favorable outcome of the war will never lead to the disintegration of the main strength of Russia, which is based on millions of Russians... These latter, even if they are dismembered by international treatises, are just as quickly reunited with each other, like particles of a cut piece of mercury...
33. The attitude of the state towards the teacher is a state policy that indicates either the strength of the state or its weakness
34. Compared to writing, horse racing is a solid, reliable business.
35. Nothing compares to the speed of mental activity
36. Herring could become a delicacy if it weren’t so common.
37. The great questions of the time are not decided by the decisions of the majority, but only by iron and blood!
38. Fools say they learn from own experience, I prefer to learn from the experiences of others
39. When you want to fool the whole world, tell the truth
40. Politics is the art of adapting to circumstances and extracting benefit from everything, even from what is disgusting
41. A Prussian schoolteacher won the Battle of Sadovaya
42. You should either play fairly with Russians or not play at all.