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great initiative

Lenin V.I.

Phraseologism: Great initiative.

Meaning: About the beginning of some important, promising business (ironic).

Origin: From the title of a brochure (July, 1919) by V. I. Lenin (1870-1924), dedicated to the first experience of holding communist subbotniks. Full title: "The Great Initiative (About the heroism of the workers in the rear. Regarding the "communist subbotniks"). This subbotnik (voluntary unpaid work, as a rule, on a day off) first took place on May 10, 1919 at the depot of the Sortirovochnaya station of the Moscow-Kazan Railway roads at the initiative of the local party organization. Others soon followed its example, and the movement of "communist subbotniks" began. On this occasion, V. I. Lenin wrote in his pamphlet: "This is the beginning of a revolution more difficult, more than the overthrow of the bourgeoisie, for this is a victory over one's own inertia, licentiousness, petty-bourgeois selfishness, over these habits that accursed capitalism has left as a legacy to the worker and peasant. When this victory is secured, then and only then will a new social discipline, socialist discipline, be created, then and only then will the return back to capitalism become impossible, communism will become truly invincible" (Poly. sobr. soch., vol. 39).

Random phraseology:

To sit at the same table with the Philistines.

Meaning:

About ideological, political conciliation, unacceptable compromise (disapproved). V. G. Belinsky in one of his letters: "I am a Jew by nature and cannot sit at the same table with the Philistines."

Origin:

From the Bible. The Philistines are a Canaanite tribe that lived in Palestine and gave it its name. The word "Philistines" in Hebrew sounds like "Pelishtim". This tribe has long been at enmity with their Israeli neighbors, for whom it was almost impossible to sit at the same table with their enemies - this would mean a betrayal of the interests of the people of Israel.

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