Cudgel of the People's War. Meaning, origin, examples of the use of phraseological units

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Club of the people's war

Tolstoy L.N.

Phraseologism: Cudgel of the People's War.

Meaning: On the great possibilities of a people's war.

Origin: From the novel "War and Peace" (vol. IV, part 3, 1) by L. N. Tolstoy (1828-1910): "Let's imagine two people who went out with swords to a duel according to all the rules of fencing art ... suddenly one of the opponents, feeling wounded, realizing that this was no joke ... he threw his sword and, taking the first club he came across, began to turn it around ... The swordsman, who demanded a fight according to all the rules of art, were the French, his opponent, who raised the cudgel were Russians ... Despite all the French complaints about the failure to comply with the rules ... the cudgel of the people's war rose with all its formidable and majestic strength and, without asking anyone's tastes and rules, rose, fell and nailed the French until the whole invasion did not perish."

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Gentlemen of Tashkent.

Meaning:

About supporters of "Asian" forms of government, about those who are hostile to the European political tradition, the spirit of civil society.

Origin:

The name of the satire (1869-1872) by Mikhail Evgrafovin Saltykov-Shchedrin (1826-1889). "Tashkent" ironically called the tsarist bureaucrats and entrepreneurs who built the railway to Tashkent. The remoteness from the controlling center and the Asian simplicity of morals contributed to the most shameless embezzlement and all sorts of abuses among these "Tashkent". (For example, the expression of the same author: "In all countries, railways serve for transportation, and in our country, moreover, for theft"). But the writer expanded the scope of this image, meaning by "Tashkent" a very wide range of people, consisting of persecutors of education, limited retrogrades, inclined to planting "Asiaticism" in politics and public life.

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