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Weimar Republic

German
German

Phraseologism: Weimar Republic.

Meaning: About a country that is experiencing the collapse of traditional values, a crisis in all areas of life, which objectively should end with a period of "restoring order", the rule of a "firm hand" (a dictatorship of the fascist type) or simply some kind of "tightening the screws" ..

Origin: The republic (1918-1919) established in Germany as a result of the November Revolution of 1933, which received its name from the so-called Weimar Constitution. The latter was developed and adopted in the city of Weimar by the German Constituent National Assembly that met there. The constitution, which came into force on August 11, 1919, guaranteed basic civil rights and freedoms, but did not affect the socio-economic foundations of the old, imperial Germany: both the financial and industrial oligarchy and the German officer corps, longing for revenge for defeat in the First World War, and the police, and bureaucracy. The Weimar Republic experienced a systemic crisis - economic, social, ideological, spiritual, which was weighed down by a feeling of deep national humiliation, since the country was forced to pay reparations to the winners in the war of 1914-1918, it was forbidden to create an army and navy. In broad sections of the population, there was a growing sense of the need for change, to restore order with a "strong hand" that would rid Germany of enemies, restore its former power and restore the Germans a sense of self-respect. On the basis of this expression, by analogy, another was born - "Weimar Russia", which was sometimes applied in the political press to Russia in the early 90s. XNUMXth century

Random phraseology:

Here you are, (grandmother), and St. George's Day.

Meaning:

About unexpectedly unfulfilled hopes, sudden changes for the worse, a sharp restriction of freedom of action (ironic, joking).

Origin:

Previously, the expression came from the time of medieval Russia, when the peasants had the right, having settled with the previous landowner, to move on to a new one. According to the law issued by Ivan the Terrible, such a transition could take place only after the completion of agricultural work, and specifically a week before St. George's Day (November 25, according to the old style, when the Great Martyr George, the patron saint of farmers, was celebrated) or a week later. After the death of Ivan the Terrible, such a transition was prohibited and the peasants were fixed to the land. Then the expression "Here's to you, grandmother, and St. George's Day" was born as an expression of chagrin due to changed circumstances. St. George was popularly called Yegoriy, therefore at the same time the word "cheat" arose, that is, to deceive, to cheat.

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