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Little victorious war

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Phraseologism: Small victorious war.

Meaning: 1. Inspiring, motivating event. 2. The policy of the government, which wants to divert the attention of the country's population from the failure of its domestic policy by unleashing a "small victorious war".

Origin: An expression used in January 1904 by Vyacheslav Konstantinovich Plehve, the Russian Minister of the Interior and chief of the gendarmes, in reference to the impending war with Japan. A. N. Kuropatkin reproached Plehve for helping to unleash the war "and joined a gang of political swindlers," Plehve replied: "Aleksey Nikolaevich, you don't know Russia's internal situation. In order to hold the revolution, we need a small victorious war." Perhaps he simply repeated US Secretary of State John Hay's "it must be a brilliant little war" (a splendid little war) from a letter to US President Theodore Roosevelt dated July 27, 1898. Roosevelt published this in his book "Description of the Spanish-American War" ( 1900).

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