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The Russian people as depicted by I.S. Turgenev

Try to write something similar about Russians in your own name and you may even get beaten, but at the same time these same people honor as classics those who are the author of these characteristics of the Russian people.

There is a double standard and doublethink; there are those who can tell the truth about Russians and those who cannot.

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“Heavy Russian spirit, you can’t breathe and you can’t fly.” - A. Blok

“Muscovy is the Rus' of the taiga, Mongolian, wild, bestial.” (Muscovy - the Russia of taiga, Mongolic, wild, bestial.) - Alexey Tolstoy

"Not the people, but brute, boor, a wild horde, murderers and villains." (They are not people, they are boors, villains, wild hordes of murderers and miscreants.) - Mikhail Bulgakov

“The most important sign of the success of the Russian people is their sadistic cruelty.” (The most important trait of the success of the Russian people is their sadistic brutality.) - Maxim Gorky

“The Russian is the greatest and most insolent liar in the whole world.” (A Russian is the greatest and the cheekiest of all liars in the world.) - Ivan Turgenev

“A people who wander around Europe and look for what they can destroy, destroy just for fun.” (People who roam across Europe in search of what to destroy and obliterate, only for the sake of gratification.) - Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Russians are a people who hate freedom, deify slavery, love shackles on their hands and feet, love their bloody despots, do not feel any beauty, are dirty physically and morally, have lived for centuries in darkness, obscurantism, and have not lifted a finger towards anything. human, but always ready to captivate, to oppress everyone and everything, the whole world. This is not a people, but a historical curse of humanity” - I.S. Shmelev.

“Oh, how hard, how unbearably hard it is sometimes to live in Russia, in this stinking environment of dirt, vulgarity, lies, deceptions, abuses, good little scoundrels, hospitable bribe-takers, hospitable rogues - fathers and benefactors of bribe-takers!” - Ivan Aksakov, from a letter to his family.

“I must express my sad view of the Russian person - he has such a weak brain system that he is not able to perceive reality as such. For him there are only words. His conditioned reflexes are coordinated not with actions, but with words.” - Academician Pavlov. About the Russian mind. 1932

“A people indifferent to the least duty, to the least justice, to the least truth, a people that does not recognize human dignity, that completely does not recognize either a free person or a free thought.” (The people who are indifferent to the least of obligations, to the least of fairness, to the least of truth... the people who do not recognize human dignity, who entirely defy a free man and a free thought.) - Alexander Pushkin

“Russia is the most vile, sickeningly disgusting country in the entire history of the world. Using the method of selection, monstrous moral monsters were bred there, in whom the very concept of Good and Evil was turned inside out. Throughout its history, this nation has been wallowing in shit and at the same time wants to drown the whole world in it...” - I.A. Ilyin (1882-1954), Russian philosopher
(Putin personally handled the transfer of Ilyin’s ashes to the Russian Federation and participated in the reburial ceremony)

“Not the people, but a hellish freak.” – V. Rozanov - Russian philosopher, publicist and critic.

"The Russian people are in an extremely sad state: they are sick, ruined, demoralized." “And so we learn that he, in the person of a significant part of his intelligentsia, although he cannot be considered formally insane, is nevertheless obsessed with false ideas bordering on delusions of grandeur and the delusion of enmity of everyone towards him. Indifferent to his real benefit and real harm, he imagines non-existent dangers and bases the most absurd assumptions on them. It seems to him that all his neighbors offend him, do not adore his greatness enough and are plotting against him in every possible way.... - Philosopher Vladimir Solovyov

God of the hungry, God of the cold,
Beggars far and wide,
God of unprofitable estates
Here it is, here it is, the Russian god.
God of breasts and... saggy
God of bast shoes and plump legs,
Bitter faces and sour cream,
Here it is, here it is, the Russian god.
P.A. Vyazemsky

“The main feature of the Russian national character is cruelty, and that cruelty is sadistic. I’m not talking about individual outbursts of cruelty, but about the psyche, about the soul of the people. I looked through the archives of one court for 1901-1910. and I was horrified by the sheer amount of incredibly cruel treatment of people. In general, here in Russia everyone takes pleasure in beating someone. And the people consider beatings to be useful, so they made up the saying “for a beaten person they give two unbeaten ones.” For 1917-1919 the peasants buried the captured Red Guards upside down so deep that their feet stuck out of the ground. Then they laughed as those legs twitched. Or they nailed one arm and one leg high on a tree and enjoyed the torment of the victim. The Red Guards tore the skin from living captive Denikin counter-revolutionaries, drove nails into the head, cut out the skin on the shoulders, like officer's shoulder straps" - Gorky Maxim. About the Russian peasantry (1922)

If Russia had failed, there would have been no loss or unrest in humanity. -- Ivan Turgenev

“There is no smaller, bastard and rude individual in this world than the Katsap. Born in a Nazi country, fed by the propaganda of Nazism, this bastard will never become a Human. His country has no friends - either lackeys or enemies. His country is only capable of threatening, humiliate and kill. And for the preservation of this status of Russia, an ordinary Katsap is ready to sacrifice own life, the lives of their parents and children, the quality of life own people. Truly: Katsaps are beasts. Fierce, bloodthirsty, but... mortal." - A. Solzhenitsyn

In Russia there are no average talents, simple masters, but there are lonely geniuses and millions of worthless people. Geniuses can do nothing because they have no apprentices, and nothing can be done with millions because they have no masters. The first are useless because there are too few of them; the latter are helpless because there are too many of them. - Vasily Klyuchevsky

The Russian commoner - the Orthodox - serves his faith as a church duty imposed on him to save someone’s soul, just not his own, which he has not learned to save, and does not want to. No matter how you pray, the devil will get it all. This is his whole theology. - Vasily Klyuchevsky

You can revere people who believed in Russia, but not the object of their belief. - Vasily Klyuchevsky

The Russian government, as a reverse providence, arranges for the better not the future, but the past. - Alexander Herzen Herzen

(He said about Putin through the centuries)

Russian History before Peter the Great is one memorial service, and after Peter the Great - one criminal case. - F. Tyutchev

“To lie to a Russian is to blow your nose. Their lies come from their slavish essence. A people who have never known or told the truth are a people of spiritual and physical slaves. Poor people.” - N.M. Karamzin

"Russian man big pig. If you ask why he doesn’t eat meat and fish, he makes excuses by the lack of supplies, means of communication, etc., while vodka is available even in the most remote villages and in any quantity.”
“Russian people strive to crack the ham precisely when trichinae are sitting in it, and to cross the river when the ice is cracking on it.”
“Nature has invested in Russian people an extraordinary ability to believe, an inquisitive mind and the gift of thinking, but all this is broken into dust by carelessness, laziness and dreamy frivolity...”
“Russian people love to remember, but do not like to live.”
“Russian people lack the desire to desire.”
- A.P. Chekhov

“The whole of Russia is a country of some greedy and lazy people: they eat and drink an awful lot, like to sleep during the day and snore in their sleep. They marry for order in the house, and take mistresses for prestige in society. Their psychology is that of a dog: if they beat them, they yelp quietly and hide in their kennels, they caress them, they lie on their backs, paws up and wag their tails...” - Anton Pavlovich Chekhov in a conversation with Maxim Gorky.

"In our national character servility and servility, obscenity and bloodthirstiness, fanaticism and drunkenness prevail.” - Metropolitan Hilarion

"National self-consciousness - national complacency - national self-adoration - national self-destruction."
“Russians are not even capable of having intelligence and conscience, but have always had one meanness.” - V. Soloviev

"The Russian man knows how to be a saint, but he cannot be honest." - Konstantin Leontiev, Russian philosopher (1831 - 1891)

“We, Muscovites, made the Kyrgyz, Chemeris, Buryats and others drunk. They robbed Armenia and Georgia, even banned worship in the Georgian language, and robbed the richest Ukraine. To Europe we gave the anarchists P. Kropotkin, M. Bunin, the apostles of ruin and butchery Shigalev, Nechaev, Lenin, etc. Moral filth, Muscovy is a monster that even hell would disdain and spew onto the earth.” - V. Rozanov, Russian philosopher (1856-1919)

There are few smart people among Russians. If you find any suitable person, then he will certainly be either a Jew or with an admixture of Jewish blood...” - V.I. Lenin, the most revered political figure in Russia (1870 - 1924)

A pitiful nation, a nation of slaves, from top to bottom - all slaves. - N. Chernyshevsky

“And I don’t want to know the animal-like parody of people, and I consider it a great misfortune for myself that I was born in Russia. After all, all of Europe looks at Russia almost as if it were a cannibal. More than once I felt ashamed that I belonged to a savage nation.” - V. M. Botkin
during an argument with Nekrasov. Avdotya Panaeva. "Memories"

The outstanding composer M. Glinka, finally leaving Russia on April 27, 1856, crawled out of a weeping hole at the border, spat on the ground and said: “God grant that I never see this vile country and its people again!”

The Russian people live too much in national-spontaneous collectivism, and the consciousness of the individual, his dignity and his rights has not yet become stronger in them. This explains the fact that Russian statehood was so saturated with insignificance and was often presented as a foreign dominion.” - Nikolai Alexandrovich Berdyaev.

Russia does not contain any healthy and valuable grain. Russia actually does not exist, it only seems to exist. This is a terrible phantom, a terrible nightmare that oppresses the soul of all enlightened people. From this nightmare we are fleeing abroad, emigrating; and if we agree to leave ourselves in Russia, then the only reason is that we are in full confidence that soon this phantom will not exist; and we will scatter it, and for this scattering we will remain in this damned place of Eastern Europe. Our people are only a “medium”, “material”, “substance” for the acceptance of a single, universal and final truth, which is collectively called “European civilization”. No "Russian civilization", no "Russian culture". - V.V. Rozanov.

There was nothing good, nothing worthy of respect or imitation in Russia. Everywhere and always there was illiteracy, injustice, robbery, sedition, personal oppression, poverty, disorder, lack of education and debauchery. The gaze does not stop at a single bright moment in the life of the people, not at a single consoling era. – A. Khomyakov

“We are a cruel beast, the dark and evil slave blood still flows in our veins - the poisonous legacy of the Tatar and serf yoke. There are no words that cannot be used to scold a Russian person... In Russian cruelty one can feel a devilish sophistication, there is something subtle, refined in it... It can be assumed that the development of cruelty was influenced by reading the lives of the holy martyrs... Who is more cruel: whites or reds ? Probably the same, because both of them are Russian.” – M. Gorky, “proletarian” writer (1868 – 1936)

Russia did not have and does not have any special mission! There is no need to look for any national idea for Russia - this is a mirage. Living with a national idea will first lead to restrictions, and then intolerance will arise towards another race, towards another people and towards another religion. Intolerance will certainly lead to terror. It is impossible to achieve a return of Russia to any single ideology, because a single ideology will sooner or later lead Russia to fascism. - Academician D. S. Likhachev

(Again about Putin)

Lately on the Internet there are statements by famous and respected historical figures about Russia and Russians, the meaning of which boils down to one thing: Russians are creatures, Russia is a garbage dump. Of course, this fake created by the Georgian so-called has nothing to do with reality. intelligentsia, does not have. However, the fabrications of the greats were happily picked up by Russophobic movements in the post-Soviet space, from the Baltic fascists to the Ukrainian Nazis.

Any more or less knowledgeable about history and people in literature can easily expose these fakes, but their target audience is not us, but the generation that grew up in the conditions of the collapse of our fundamental education, a real humanitarian catastrophe. that befell our peoples. The thoughts of Dmitry Serov coincide with my thoughts:

ANDinformation war. False quotes about Russians

The idea of this article was inspired by posts of certain shady personalities who publish on various sites on the Internet examples of quotes allegedly belonging to famous Russian figures, in which the dignity and mental abilities of the Russian people are humiliated. In a small study aimed at clarifying the situation around the sources of these lies, a well-known search engine was used, which provided invaluable assistance in establishing the truth. These are, in fact, the same false quotes floating around the Internet.

1. Academician Pavlov:

2. Alexey Tolstoy:

3. Fedor Dostoevsky:

4. Michael Bulgakov:

5. Maksim Gorky:

6. Ivan Aksakov:

7. Ivan Turgenev:

8. Ivan Shmelev:

9. Alexander Pushkin:

10. Philosopher Vladimir Solovyov: "The Russian people are in an extremely sad state: they are sick, ruined, demoralized." “And so we learn that he, in the person of a significant part of his intelligentsia, although he cannot be considered formally insane, is nevertheless obsessed with false ideas bordering on delusions of grandeur and the delusion of hostility towards him from everyone. Indifferent to his real benefit and real harm, he imagines non-existent dangers and bases the most absurd assumptions on them. It seems to him that all his neighbors offend him, do not adore his greatness enough and are plotting against him in every possible way. He accuses each of his family of trying to harm him, separating from him and going over to his enemies , and he considers all his neighbors to be his enemies..."

Now let's look at it in detail:

1. Academician Pavlov:“I must express my sad view of the Russian person - he has such a weak brain system that he is not able to perceive reality as such. For him, only words exist. His conditioned reflexes are coordinated not with actions, but with words.” 1932

Pavlov never said or wrote anything like this:
1). From a physiological point of view, the false quote attributed to Academician Pavlov is absolutely amateurish. Even if we discard the absolutely delusional and Russophobic first sentence, having heard which old man Pavlov, without hesitation, would have performed an emergency lobotomy on the inflamed brain of the author of such nonsense, then the third postulates an abnormal connection between the conditioned reflex and words. Although, even people far from science understand that the higher the neurophysiological organization of a person, the more capable he is of reflex actions based on speech. Apparently, the author of this quote is worse than a trained dog - since he is not able to coordinate his activities with words.
2). Pay attention to the word used - "sad", it will be used below, which suggests that the false quotes are the product of the creativity of the same person.

2. Alexey Tolstoy: "Muscovy is the Rus' of the taiga, Mongolian, wild, bestial."

The works of Alexey Nikolaevich and Alexey Konstantinovich have been verified. Both writers have never said or written anything like this.
Check it out in the search links below! Complete works of both: http://az.lib.ru

3. Fedor Dostoevsky: "A people who wander around Europe and look for what they can destroy, destroy just for fun."

The phrase is taken out of context. Dostoevsky critically reflects on the European view of Russians.
Check it out in the search links below! Writer's Diary. 1876: http://az.lib.ru
The original words of Dostoevsky: “I said that Russians are not loved in Europe. What they don’t like - I think no one will argue about this, but, by the way, we are accused in Europe, all Russians, almost without exception, that we are terrible liberals, Moreover, revolutionaries are always, with some kind of love, inclined to side with the destructive rather than the conservative elements of Europe. For this, many Europeans look at us mockingly and haughtily: they don’t understand why we should be in someone else’s in fact, deniers, they positively deprive us of the right of European denial - on the grounds that they do not recognize us as belonging to civilization. They see in us rather barbarians, wandering around Europe and rejoicing that something, somewhere can be destroyed - destroyed only for destruction, for the pleasure of just watching how it all falls apart, like a horde of savages, like the Huns, ready to surge upon Ancient Rome and destroy the shrine, without even any idea of what treasure they are destroying. That the majority of Russians have indeed declared themselves liberals in Europe is true, and even this is strange. Has anyone ever asked themselves the question: why is this so? Why is it that almost nine-tenths of Russians, throughout our century, having cultivated in Europe, always sided with that layer of Europeans that was liberal, with the left side, that is, always with that side that itself denied its own culture, its own civilization, more or less finite (what Thiers denies in civilization and what the Paris Commune of '71 denied in it are extremely different)"

4. Michael Bulgakov: "Not the people, but brute, boor, a wild horde, murderers and villains."

Bulgakov never said or wrote anything like this.

5. Maksim Gorky:“The most important sign of the success of the Russian people is their sadistic cruelty.”

Gorky never said or wrote anything like this.

6. Ivan Aksakov:“Oh, how hard it is to live in Russia, in this stinking center of physical and moral depravity, meanness, lies and villainy.”

The phrase was taken out of context and modified. Aksakov laments Russia's failures in Crimean War and blames it on bribery. Pay attention to physical and moral depravity - no Russian, especially during Aksakov’s time, would say that. Russian is not the native language of the author of this phrase; we will come across this below.
Check it out in the search links below! Letters to relatives. (1849-1856): http://az.lib.ru
Aksakov’s true thoughts: “We had to stand either in Little Russian or Moldavian villages. Moldavian huts are even cleaner and more beautiful than Little Russian ones; no matter how poor a Moldavian is, his hut is decorated with carpets and various home-made, skillfully crafted fabrics, which are not even sold. However, These are all women's works; a woman in these aspects is active and hardworking and incomparably higher than a man. A matured crest is ten times lazier than a native Ukrainian. The owner of my hut, having served his underwater duty, lay behind the stove for two days with an air of inexpressible bliss, speaking only from time to time : When will these sovereigns make peace among themselves! In general, the entire Kherson province and Bessarabia are greatly exhausted and devastated by war and crop failure: there is no bread at all, and there is no other food except hominy (corn), and then in small quantities. Everyone here wants peace, including the inhabitants , and warriors, a rumor spread and persists among them that Austria is entering into an alliance with us, refusing to let the allies pass through Moldavia and Wallachia, and they are all happy about this and praise the Austrians. So hard is the war, so hard are the sacrifices made with instinctive confidence in their futility, without any animation, that whatever peace is concluded now, it will be accepted here by both the inhabitants and almost the majority of the army with joy. I say here - in Russia it is different. But even in Russia they somehow got used to failure. When the French landed in the Crimea, the thought that Sevastopol could fall to them horrified the merchants at the Krolevets fair, and I remember how one rich old man, Glazov, said with sincere fervor that if Sevastopol was taken, then I would go too and so on. Sevastopol was taken, he did not go and will not go. - But further. - In Volonterovka, a village inhabited by Cossacks of the Danube army, mostly Moldovans, we found only about 50 men, 700 people in service. “Here in Bendery, the main commander, the commandant of the fortress, Lieutenant General Olshevsky, is the kindest, fattest, Russian man in the full sense, i.e. representing a combination of courage, good nature, cordiality, simplicity, humility with what constitutes a necessary attribute of every Russian person active, not living in a peasant community. - Oh, how hard, how unbearably hard it is sometimes to live in Russia, in this stinking environment of dirt, vulgarity, lies, deceptions, abuses, good little scoundrels, hospitable bribe-takers, hospitable rogues - fathers and benefactors of bribe-takers! I didn’t write these lines about Olshevsky, I don’t know him, but the whole image of management, of all the administrative machinations, appeared in my imagination.”

7. Ivan Turgenev:"The Russian is the greatest and most insolent liar in the whole world."

Turgenev never said or wrote anything like this.
Check it out in the search links below! Complete works: http://az.lib.ru

8. Ivan Shmelev:“A people that hates freedom, loves slavery, loves chains on their hands and feet, dirty physically and morally... ready at any moment to oppress anyone and everyone.”

Shmelev never said or wrote anything like that. Please note again, as in the case of Aksakov, the same phrase is used - physical and moral - no Russian, and even in the time of Shmelev, did not speak like that. Russian is not the native language of the author of this phrase; we will come across this below.
Check it out in the search links below! Complete works: http://www.lib.ru

9. Alexander Pushkin: “A people indifferent to the least duty, to the least justice, to the least truth, a people that does not recognize human dignity, that completely does not recognize either a free person or a free thought.”

Pushkin never said or wrote anything like this. The quote allegedly belonging to Pushkin contains semantic errors. Which can only mean one thing - Russian is not the native language of the author of this phrase.
Check it out in the search links below! Complete works: http://www.lib.ru

10. Philosopher Vladimir Solovyov wrote:"The Russian people are in an extremely sad state: they are sick, ruined, demoralized." “And so we learn that he, in the person of a significant part of his intelligentsia, although he cannot be considered formally insane, is nevertheless obsessed with false ideas bordering on delusions of grandeur and the delusion of hostility towards him from everyone. Indifferent to his real benefit and real harm, he imagines non-existent dangers and bases the most absurd assumptions on them. It seems to him that all his neighbors offend him, do not adore his greatness enough and are plotting against him in every possible way. He accuses each of his family of trying to harm him, separating from him and going over to his enemies , and he considers all his neighbors to be his enemies..."

Soloviev never said or wrote anything like this.
1). Pay attention to the use, as in the case of Pavlov, of the word sad, which suggests that the false quotes are the product of the creativity of the same person.
2). An obvious metaphor (allegorical imposition of a version), in its psychotherapeutic and propaganda understanding, of the August 2008 events as interpreted by the Georgian authorities.
Check it out in the search links below! Complete works: http://www.vehi.net

Dmitry Serov

Information Department

17.04.2012 - 14:54

Recently, statements by famous and respected historical figures about Russia and Russians have been circulating on the Internet, the meaning of which boils down to one thing: Russians are creatures, Russia is a garbage dump. Of course, this fake created by the Georgian so-called has nothing to do with reality. intelligentsia, does not have. However, the fabrications of the greats were happily picked up by Russophobic movements in the post-Soviet space, from the Baltic fascists to the Ukrainian Nazis.

Any person with the slightest knowledge of history and literature can easily expose these fakes, but their target audience is not us, but the generation that grew up in the conditions of the collapse of our fundamental education, a real humanitarian catastrophe. that befell our peoples. The thoughts of Dmitry Serov coincide with my thoughts:

Information war. False quotes about Russians

1. Academician Pavlov: “I must express my sad view of the Russian person - he has such a weak brain system that he is not able to perceive reality as such. For him, only words exist. His conditioned reflexes are coordinated not with actions, but with words.” 1932

2. Alexei Tolstoy: “Muscovy is the Rus' of the taiga, Mongolian, wild, bestial.”

3. Fyodor Dostoevsky: “A people who wander around Europe and are looking for what they can destroy, destroy just for the sake of entertainment.”

4. Mikhail Bulgakov: “Not the people, but cattle, boors, a wild horde of murderers and villains.”

5. Maxim Gorky: “The most important sign of the success of the Russian people is their sadistic cruelty.”

6. Ivan Aksakov: “Oh, how hard it is to live in Russia, in this stinking center of physical and moral depravity, meanness, lies and villainy.”

7. Ivan Turgenev: “The Russian is the greatest and most insolent liar in the whole world.”

8. Ivan Shmelev: “A people that hates freedom, loves slavery, loves chains on their hands and feet, dirty physically and morally... ready at any moment to oppress anyone and everyone.”

10. Philosopher Vladimir Solovyov: “The Russian people are in an extremely sad state: they are sick, ruined, demoralized.” “And so we learn that he, in the person of a significant part of his intelligentsia, although he cannot be considered formally insane, is nevertheless obsessed with false ideas bordering on delusions of grandeur and the delusion of hostility towards him from everyone. Indifferent to his real benefit and real harm, he imagines non-existent dangers and bases the most absurd assumptions on them. It seems to him that all his neighbors offend him, do not adore his greatness enough and are plotting against him in every possible way. He accuses each of his family of trying to harm him, separating from him and going over to his enemies , and he considers all his neighbors to be his enemies..."

Now let's look at it in detail:

Pavlov never said or wrote anything like this:
1). From a physiological point of view, the false quote attributed to Academician Pavlov is absolutely amateurish. Even if we discard the absolutely delusional and Russophobic first sentence, having heard which old man Pavlov, without hesitation, would have performed an emergency lobotomy on the inflamed brain of the author of such nonsense, then the third postulates an abnormal connection between the conditioned reflex and words. Although, even people far from science understand that the higher the neurophysiological organization of a person, the more capable he is of reflex actions based on speech. Apparently, the author of this quote is worse than a trained dog - since he is not able to coordinate his activities with words.
2). Pay attention to the word used - "sad", it will be used below, which suggests that the false quotes are the product of the creativity of the same person.

2. Alexei Tolstoy: “Muscovy is the Rus' of the taiga, Mongolian, wild, bestial.”

3. Fyodor Dostoevsky: “A people who wander around Europe and are looking for what they can destroy, destroy just for the sake of entertainment.”

The phrase is taken out of context. Dostoevsky critically reflects on the European view of Russians.
Check it out in the search links below! Writer's Diary. 1876: http://az.lib.ru
The original words of Dostoevsky: “I said that Russians are not loved in Europe. What they don’t like - I think no one will argue about this, but, by the way, we are accused in Europe, all Russians, almost without exception, that we are terrible liberals, Moreover, revolutionaries are always, with some kind of love, inclined to side with the destructive rather than the conservative elements of Europe. For this, many Europeans look at us mockingly and haughtily: they don’t understand why we should be in someone else’s in fact, deniers, they positively deprive us of the right of European denial - on the grounds that they do not recognize us as belonging to civilization. They see in us rather barbarians, wandering around Europe and rejoicing that something, somewhere can be destroyed - destroyed only for destruction, for the pleasure of just watching how it all falls apart, like a horde of savages, like the Huns, ready to rush into ancient Rome and destroy the shrine, without even any idea of what treasure they are destroying. That the Russians really, for the most part, declared themselves in Europe by liberals - this is true, and even this is strange. Has anyone ever asked themselves the question: why is this so? Why is it that almost nine-tenths of Russians, throughout our century, having cultivated in Europe, always sided with that layer of Europeans that was liberal, with the left side, that is, always with that side that itself denied its own culture, its own civilization, more or less finite (what Thiers denies in civilization and what the Paris Commune of '71 denied in it are extremely different)"

4. Mikhail Bulgakov: “Not the people, but cattle, boors, a wild horde of murderers and villains.”

Bulgakov never said or wrote anything like this.

5. Maxim Gorky: “The most important sign of the success of the Russian people is their sadistic cruelty.”

Gorky never said or wrote anything like this.

6. Ivan Aksakov: “Oh, how hard it is to live in Russia, in this stinking center of physical and moral depravity, meanness, lies and villainy.”

The phrase was taken out of context and modified. Aksakov laments Russia's failures in the Crimean War and blames it on bribery. Pay attention to physical and moral depravity - no Russian, especially during Aksakov’s time, would say that. Russian is not the native language of the author of this phrase; we will come across this below.
Check it out in the search links below! Letters to relatives. (1849-1856): http://az.lib.ru

Aksakov’s true thoughts: “We had to stand in Little Russian and Moldavian villages. Moldavian huts are even cleaner and more beautiful than Little Russian ones; no matter how poor the Moldavian is, his hut is decorated with carpets and various home-made, skillfully crafted fabrics that are not even sold. However, this is all women’s work; a woman in these aspects is active and hardworking and incomparably superior to a man. A young crest is ten times lazier than a native Ukrainian. The owner of my hut, having served his underwater duty, lay behind the stove for two days with a look of inexpressible bliss, saying only from time to time: When will these sovereigns make peace with each other! In general, the entire Kherson province and Bessarabia are severely depleted and devastated by war and crop failure: there is no bread at all, and there is no other food except hominy (corn), and then in small quantities. Everyone here wants peace, both residents and warriors, a rumor has spread and persists among them that Austria is entering into an alliance with us, refusing to let the allies pass through Moldavia and Wallachia, and they are all happy about this and praise the Austrians. So hard is the war, so hard are the sacrifices made with instinctive confidence in their futility, without any animation, that whatever peace is concluded now, it will be accepted here by both the inhabitants and almost the majority of the army with joy. I say here - in Russia it is different. But even in Russia they somehow got used to failure. When the French landed in the Crimea, the thought that Sevastopol could fall to them horrified the merchants at the Krolevets fair, and I remember how one rich old man, Glazov, said with sincere fervor that if Sevastopol was taken, then I would go too and so on. Sevastopol was taken, he did not go and will not go. - But further. - In Volonterovka, a village inhabited by Cossacks of the Danube army, mostly Moldovans, we found only about 50 men, 700 people in service. “Here in Bendery, the main commander, the commandant of the fortress, Lieutenant General Olshevsky, is the kindest, fattest, Russian man in the full sense, i.e. representing a combination of courage, good nature, cordiality, simplicity, humility with what constitutes a necessary attribute of every Russian person active, not living in a peasant community. - Oh, how hard, how unbearably hard it is sometimes to live in Russia, in this stinking environment of dirt, vulgarity, lies, deceptions, abuses, good little scoundrels, hospitable bribe-takers, hospitable rogues - fathers and benefactors of bribe-takers! I didn’t write these lines about Olshevsky, I don’t know him, but the whole image of management, of all the administrative machinations, appeared in my imagination.”

7. Ivan Turgenev: “The Russian is the greatest and most insolent liar in the whole world.”

Turgenev never said or wrote anything like this.
Check it out in the search links below! Complete works: http://az.lib.ru

8. Ivan Shmelev: “A people that hates freedom, loves slavery, loves chains on their hands and feet, dirty physically and morally... ready at any moment to oppress anyone and everyone.”

Pushkin never said or wrote anything like this. The quote, supposedly from Pushkin, contains semantic errors. Which can only mean one thing - Russian is not the native language of the author of this phrase.
Check it out in the search links below! Complete works: http://www.lib.ru

10. Philosopher Vladimir Solovyov wrote: “The Russian people are in an extremely sad state: they are sick, ruined, demoralized.” “And so we learn that he, in the person of a significant part of his intelligentsia, although he cannot be considered formally insane, is nevertheless obsessed with false ideas bordering on delusions of grandeur and the delusion of hostility towards him from everyone. Indifferent to his real benefit and real harm, he imagines non-existent dangers and bases the most absurd assumptions on them. It seems to him that all his neighbors offend him, do not adore his greatness enough and are plotting against him in every possible way. He accuses each of his family of trying to harm him, separating from him and going over to his enemies , and he considers all his neighbors to be his enemies..."

Soloviev never said or wrote anything like this.
1). Pay attention to the use, as in the case of Pavlov, of the word sad, which suggests that the false quotes are the product of the creativity of the same person.
2). An obvious metaphor (allegorical imposition of a version), in its psychotherapeutic and propaganda understanding, of the August 2008 events as interpreted by the Georgian authorities.
Check it out in the search links below! Complete works: http://www.vehi.net

pravdoiskanie at Legend - quotes about the Russian people of Russian people: explorers, thinkers, heroes, and heroes!

“Muscovy - Rus' of the taiga, Mongolian, wild, bestial” by A. Tolstoy.

.“A people who wander around Europe and look for what they can destroy, destroy just for fun.”
— F. Dostoevsky

“Not a people, but a beast, a boor, a wild horde, murderers and villains”
— M. Bulgakov

“The most important sign of the success of the Russian people is their sadistic cruelty”
— M. Gorky

“Oh, how hard it is to live in Russia, in this stinking center of physical and moral depravity, meanness, lies and villainy”
— N. Aksakov

“The Russian is the greatest and most insolent liar in the whole world”
— I. Turgenev

“A people that hates freedom, loves slavery, loves chains on their hands and feet, dirty physically and morally... ready at any moment to oppress anyone and everyone.”
— I. Shmelev

“A people indifferent to the least duty, to the least justice, to the least truth, a people that does not recognize human dignity, that does not fully recognize either a free person or a free thought.”
— A. S. Pushkin

"The people are Samoyeds"
— L. Andreev

“If before my birth the Lord God had told me: “Count! Choose the people among whom you want to be born,” I would have answered him: “Your Majesty, wherever you please, but not in Russia!” I have the courage to admit it. I am not proud that I am Russian, I submit to this position. And when I think... about the beauty of our history before the damned Mongols and before the damned Moscow, even more shameful than the Mongols themselves, I want to throw myself on the ground and roll in despair at what we have done..."
— Tolstoy A.K. Collected works in 4 volumes. T. 4. - Moscow. Pravda Publishing House, 1980, page 445.

“The Russian person has a selfless love for meanness. He won’t have anything to gain from this, but he will do something nasty to his neighbor.”
- Nikolay Gogol

“Drunkenness, illiteracy, stupidity and squalor of the Russian peasant, two hundred years behind Europe, and still not quite confident in buttoning his own pants, Once again shows that you can’t be friends with him, since he views friendship as weakness.”
— A.P. Chekhov

“Russia is the most vile, sickeningly disgusting country in the entire history of the world.
Using the method of selection, monstrous moral monsters were bred there, in whom the very concept of Good and Evil was turned inside out. Throughout its history, this nation has been wallowing in shit, and at the same time wants to drown the whole world in it..."
- Ilyin, Russian philosopher.

“If Russia had failed, there would have been no loss or unrest in humanity.”
- Ivan Turgenev

“If I fall asleep and wake up in a hundred years, and they ask me what is happening in Russia now, I will answer: they drink and steal.”
- Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin

“If someone started talking about patriotism and love for the motherland, it means they have completely stolen.”
- Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin

“We still feel like we need to destroy something, put a limit on something, wipe something off the face of the earth. It’s not useful to do anything, but just ruin it.
If we admit it in all conscience, then this is what we actually mean when we talk about the process of creation.”
- Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin.

“Lies, lies, lies... Lies - for salvation, lies - for atonement, lies - achieving a goal, lies - career, prosperity, orders, apartment... Lies! All of Russia was covered with lies like a scab.”
- Vasily Shukshin.

July 30th, 2014

2. Alexey Tolstoy: “Muscovy is the Rus' of the taiga, Mongolian, wild, bestial.” (Muscovy - the Russia of taiga, Mongolic, wild, bestial.)

3. Fyodor Dostoevsky: “A people who wander around Europe and are looking for what they can destroy, destroy just for the sake of entertainment.” (People who roam across Europe in search of what to destroy and obliterate, only for the sake of gratification.)

4. Mikhail Bulgakov: “Not the people, but cattle, boors, a wild horde of murderers and villains.” (They are not people, they are boors, villains, wild hordes of murderers and miscreants.)

5. Maxim Gorky: “The most important sign of the success of the Russian people is their sadistic cruelty.” (The most important trait of the success of the Russian people is their sadistic brutality.)

6. Ivan Aksakov: “Oh, how hard it is to live in Russia, in this stinking center of physical and moral depravity, meanness, lies and villainy.” (How difficult it is to live in Russia, this stinking center of physical and moral perversity, meanness, deceit and evil.)

7. Ivan Turgenev: “The Russian is the greatest and most insolent liar in the whole world.” (A Russian is the greatest and the cheekiest of all liars in the world.)

8. Ivan Shmelev: “A people that hates freedom, loves slavery, loves chains on their hands and feet, dirty physically and morally... ready at any moment to oppress anyone and everyone.” (The people who hate freedom, adore enslavement, love handcuffs and who are filthy morally and physically, ready to oppress everyone and everything.)

9. Alexander Pushkin: “A people indifferent to the least duty, to the least justice, to the least truth, a people who do not recognize human dignity, who do not fully recognize either a free person or a free thought.” (The people who are indifferent to the least of obligations, to the least of fairness, to the least of truth... the people who do not recognize human dignity, who entirely defy a free man and a free thought.)

Now let's look at it in detail:

Pavlov never said or wrote anything like that.

1) From the point of view of physiology, the false quote attributed to Academician Pavlov is absolutely amateurish. Even if we discard the absolutely delusional and Russophobic first sentence, having heard which old man Pavlov, without hesitation, would have performed an emergency lobotomy on the inflamed brain of the author of such nonsense, then the third postulates an abnormal connection between the conditioned reflex and words. Although, even people far from science understand that the higher the neurophysiological organization of a person, the more capable he is of reflex actions based on speech. Apparently, the author of this quote is worse than a trained dog - since he is not able to coordinate his activities with words.

2) Pay attention to the word used - “sad”, it will be used below, which suggests that the false quotes are the product of the creativity of the same person.

2. Alexey Tolstoy: “Muscovy is the Rus' of the taiga, Mongolian, wild, bestial.” The works of Alexey Nikolaevich and Alexey Konstantinovich have been verified. Both writers have never said or written anything like this.

Complete works of both:
http://az.lib.ru/t/tolstoj_a_n/
http://az.lib.ru/t/tolstoj_a_k/

3. Fyodor Dostoevsky: “A people who wander around Europe and are looking for what they can destroy, destroy just for the sake of entertainment.”

The phrase is taken out of context. Dostoevsky critically reflects on the European view of Russians.

“I said that Russians are not loved in Europe. What they don’t like - I think no one will argue about this, but, by the way, we are accused in Europe, all Russians, almost without exception, that we are terrible liberals, and what’s more, revolutionaries and always, with some kind of love, they are inclined to side with the destructive rather than with the conservative elements of Europe. For this, many Europeans look at us mockingly and haughtily: they don’t understand why we should be deniers in someone else’s business, they positively deprive us of the right of European negation - on the grounds that they do not recognize us as belonging to civilization. They see in us rather barbarians, wandering around Europe and rejoicing that something, somewhere can be destroyed - to destroy only for the sake of destruction, for the pleasure of just watching how all this will fall apart, like a horde of savages, like the Huns, ready to rush into ancient Rome and destroy the shrine, without even any idea of what treasure they are destroying. That the Russians really, for the most part, declared themselves liberals in Europe, - this is true, and even this is strange.

Has anyone ever asked themselves the question: why is this so? Why is it that almost nine-tenths of Russians, throughout our century, having cultivated in Europe, always sided with that layer of Europeans that was liberal, with the left side, that is, always with that side that itself denied its own culture, its own civilization, more or less finite (what Thiers denies in civilization and what the Paris Commune of '71 denied in it are extremely different)"

4. Mikhail Bulgakov: “Not the people, but cattle, boors, a wild horde of murderers and villains.”
Bulgakov never said or wrote anything like this.

Full composition of writings:

5. Maxim Gorky: “The most important sign of the success of the Russian people is their sadistic cruelty.”
Gorky never said or wrote anything like this.
Check it out in the search links below!
Full composition of writings:

6. Ivan Aksakov: “Oh, how hard it is to live in Russia, in this stinking center of physical and moral depravity, meanness, lies and villainy.”

The phrase was taken out of context and modified. Aksakov laments Russia's failures in the Crimean War and blames it on bribery.

Pay attention to physical and moral depravity - no Russian, especially during Aksakov’s time, would say that. Russian is not the native language of the author of this phrase; we will come across this below.

We had to stand either in Little Russian or Moldavian villages. Moldavian huts are even cleaner and more beautiful than Little Russian ones; no matter how poor the Moldavian is, his hut is decorated with carpets and various home-made, skillfully crafted fabrics that are not even sold. However, this is all women’s work; a woman in these aspects is active and hardworking and incomparably superior to a man. A young crest is ten times lazier than a native Ukrainian. The owner of my hut, having served his underwater duty, lay behind the stove for two days with a look of inexpressible bliss, saying only from time to time: When will these sovereigns make peace with each other! In general, the entire Kherson province and Bessarabia are severely depleted and devastated by war and crop failure: there is no bread at all, and there is no other food except hominy (corn), and then in small quantities. Everyone here wants peace, both residents and warriors, a rumor has spread and persists among them that Austria is entering into an alliance with us, refusing to let the allies pass through Moldavia and Wallachia, and they are all happy about this and praise the Austrians. So hard is the war, so hard are the sacrifices made with instinctive confidence in their futility, without any animation, that whatever peace is concluded now, it will be accepted here by both the inhabitants and almost the majority of the army with joy. I say here - in Russia it is different. But even in Russia they somehow got used to failure. When the French landed in the Crimea, the thought that Sevastopol could fall to them horrified the merchants at the Krolevets fair, and I remember how one rich old man, Glazov, said with sincere fervor that if Sevastopol was taken, then I would go too and so on. Sevastopol was taken, he did not go and will not go. - But further. - In Volonterovka, a village inhabited by Cossacks of the Danube army, mostly Moldovans, we found only about 50 men, 700 people in service. “Here in Bendery, the main commander, the commandant of the fortress, Lieutenant General Olshevsky, is the kindest, fattest, Russian man in the full sense, i.e. representing a combination of courage, good nature, cordiality, simplicity, humility with what constitutes a necessary attribute of every Russian person active, not living in a peasant community. - Oh, how hard, how unbearably hard it is sometimes to live in Russia, in this stinking environment of dirt, vulgarity, lies, deceptions, abuses, good little scoundrels, hospitable bribe-takers, hospitable rogues - fathers and benefactors of bribe-takers! I didn’t write these lines about Olshevsky, I don’t know him, but the whole image of management, of all the administrative machinations, appeared in my imagination.

7. Ivan Turgenev: “The Russian is the greatest and most insolent liar in the whole world.”

Turgenev never said or wrote anything like this.

8. Ivan Shmelev: “A people that hates freedom, loves slavery, loves chains on their hands and feet, dirty physically and morally... ready at any moment to oppress anyone and everyone.”

Shmelev never said or wrote anything like that.

Please note again, as in the case of Aksakov, the same phrase is used - physical and moral - no Russian, and even in the time of Shmelev, did not speak like that. Russian is not the native language of the author of this phrase; we will come across this below.

Pushkin never said or wrote anything like this.

The quote allegedly belonging to Pushkin contains semantic errors. Which can only mean one thing - Russian is not the native language of the author of this phrase.

Soloviev never said or wrote anything like this.
1) Pay attention to the use, as in the case of Pavlov, of the word sad, which suggests that the false quotes are a product of the creativity of the same person.
2) An obvious metaphor (allegorical imposition of a version), in its psychotherapeutic and propaganda understanding, of the August 2008 events as interpreted by the Georgian authorities.

Information impact.

We have all heard such words as propaganda and public relations, in other words, public relations. Let's discard the discussion of how these two concepts differ from each other; let's better pay attention to what unites them. In both cases, both terms imply a certain production and delivery of a certain way of constructed information messages to the final listener or consumer. At the same time, the main task of any propagandist or PR specialist (as you like!) is a predicted change in the behavior or state of the end consumer of information, be it an unbearable desire to fly on a certain airline or the sudden emergence of positive emotions in relation to some organization, etc. d.

Trust in information

Consumers of information, willingly or unwillingly, always evaluate the reliability of incoming information, and the most important issue that PR has to face during information impact is ensuring trust in the source of information on the part of the target audience. It's simple. Ask yourself the question: who is easier to convince you to go to some place, say to a store - absolutely to a stranger on the street or to your close friend? The answer is obvious. In the first case, we have more reason to mistrust and suspect nefarious intentions than in the second.

Once upon a time, in ancient Greece people started thinking about the principles and methods of persuasion, which ultimately resulted in the emergence of a whole branch of knowledge - rhetoric. Several centuries later, these skills were successfully used in religious sermons in different parts of the world. And after some time, a name was coined for the phenomenon of mass persuasion - propaganda. Everything would have remained this way to this day if in the last century, after the end of the Second World War, it had not occurred to someone to distance themselves from the tired term propaganda with the help of a neutral and plausible-sounding concept - public relations. But no matter how it is, at its deepest basis public relations still lies, ancient art public speaking and beliefs.

What did the ancients say about trust and its role in the process of persuasion? The greatest Greek of all time, Aristotle, identified three reasons in this matter, which, when presented together, make us believe without evidence. This is reason, decency and good attitude to us. In the process of development and socialization, as well as the acquisition of life experience, a person becomes convinced that others may not be trustworthy for one or more of these reasons. Aristotle believed that incorrect reasoning results from:
1. the speaker’s unreasonableness,
2. or, reasoning correctly, the individual, as a result of his dishonesty, lies,
3. or a reasonable and honest person, but who treats us poorly may not give best advice, although he knows what it is.

Will we completely trust the advice of a person who is unreasonable, but decent and on good terms with us? And smart, but a liar? Or, for example, will we trust someone who is reasonable and decent, but who has unkind feelings towards us?

Now it is worth mentioning famous and famous personalities whose statements we tend to trust without much evidence. These people, as a rule, worked long and hard, as a result they proved to everyone their rationality and decency, and also, for the most part, their good attitude towards society. That is, they have earned a certain authority. In PR there is a special term for them - opinion leaders. If we go deeper into the jungle of science, then the perception of authority is determined by the laws of human thinking, namely the desire of the human mind to generalize. There are good reasons for this. We would probably expend great mental effort, having to constantly think about the intentions, rationality and integrity of people close to us - just as we do when evaluating strangers or people we barely know.

Discrediting the source

And now let’s talk about what PR and propaganda specialists do in tough competitive situations, when two or more sources of information are fighting for the audience’s consciousness, and there are no special regulatory rules. I mean the so-called information wars, which, as a rule, are a product of information support for certain political actions. In addition to a number of measures, propagandists try to undermine trust in rival sources of information, while at the same time maximizing the trust rating of their own. According to Aristotle, any doubts of the listeners in:
1. Reasonableness of the source
2. Decency (honesty, morality, appearance etc.)
3. Benevolence (good intentions, good attitude towards the target audience)

In light of the above, it seems useful to analyze the semantic orientation of false quotes in order to destabilize trust in each of the three parameters.

Diagnostics and diseases. Medicines from A to Z

The Russian people as depicted by I.S. Turgenev