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Damned questions

Heinrich Heine

Phraseologism: Damned questions.

Meaning: About the problems that constantly arise before public thought, but there is no satisfactory, generally acceptable answer to them (for example, "damned questions of Russian reality", etc.).

Origin: From the poem "To Lazarus" by Heinrich Heine (1797-1856) translated (1858) by the poet, translator and critic Mikhail Larioiovich Mikhailov (1829-1865): We get direct answers." In Russia in the XNUMXth century the above four lines have been quoted very and often with the meaning: don't be blunt, don't be clever, theorize when a direct answer to a direct, unambiguous question is required. Initially, the line "And hypotheses are empty" sounded differently: M. L. Mikhailov translated Heine's line more precisely - "holy hypotheses." But due to censorship considerations, I had to put "empty hypotheses." Since only the censored version was printed in all pre-revolutionary publications, the lines became known in this edition.

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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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