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There were worse times, but there was no mean

Nekrasov N.A.

Phraseologism: There were worse times, but there was no mean.

Meaning: About the years of reaction, about the police-autocratic regime of Russia.

Origin: Quote from N. A. Nekrasov's poem "Contemporaries", I, "Anniversaries and triumphs" (1875).

Random phraseology:

If the enemy does not surrender, he is destroyed.

Meaning:

About a decisive, offensive attitude towards the enemy, the enemy.

Origin:

Attributed erroneously to I. V. Stalin. In fact, this is the title of an article by the writer Maxim Gorky (pseudonym of Alexei Mikhailovich Peshkov, 1868-1936), which was published on November 15, 1930 simultaneously in two newspapers - Pravda and Izvestia. The same expression was in the very text of the article: “Everything that has outlived its time allotted to it by history is against us, and this gives us the right to consider ourselves still in a state of civil war. A natural conclusion follows from this: if the enemy does not surrender, he exterminate." Subsequently, these words, repeatedly repeated in speeches, reports and on the radio, became a kind of motto and justification for subsequent mass "purges" and repressions.

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