The most famous sayings of Joseph Stalin. The most famous sayings of Joseph Stalin Life has become better and more fun

The painting was sent to the World Exhibition in the USA (1939). Upon returning from overseas, it was exhibited in the main pavilion of the All-Union Agricultural Exhibition and was later transferred to the Museum of the Revolution.

The presence of petty-bourgeois relations in the sphere of agricultural production did not fit into the system of socialist doctrines. In this regard, at the 15th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks in 1927, the country's leadership set the course for the collectivization of agriculture. The essence of the collectivization policy was to replace private property with collective (collective farm) property. The practical implementation of the policy of collectivization took place with gross violations of democratic norms. Peasants were forcibly driven to collective farms under the threat of reprisals. Not only land was socialized, but also agricultural implements, small cattle, and poultry. By the beginning of the 1930s, there were practically no individual farms left in the country.

Already in the first years of collectivization, the collective-farm form of agricultural production showed its extreme inefficiency. Grain production dropped sharply, meat and dairy production dropped to almost zero. The famine that struck the country (especially Ukraine and the Volga region) was objectively generated by the policy of collectivization.

Against this background, several "exemplary" collective farms clearly stood out. Of these, they made illustrations for unbridled propaganda, the press choked with enthusiastic articles and blissful essays. In the 1930s-1960s, many songs, films and books told about the good and friendly work of collective farmers, where the heroes were satisfied with their lives and work.

In the late 1930s, the collective farm named after Ilyich Dobrinsky District of the Voronezh Region was known throughout the USSR. In 1938, the kolkhoz was visited by a correspondent for the Our Country magazine, a future political observer for Pravda and a Hero of Socialist Labor, Yuri Aleksandrovich ZHUKOV (1908-1991).

“Early in the morning I leave for the collective farm with a passing car ... Large buildings of the collective farm are already visible ahead. Two electric motors pump water for a large collective farm. One can see the extensive buildings of collective farms, new houses of collective farmers built this year. Behind them is a large orchard. Nearby is a collective farm hippodrome for purebred trotters, which are grown here. The hospitable livestock breeder of the collective farm proudly leads us to a long stable. Above the entrance is a sculptural image of a horse's head and the inscription "Pedigree horse farm of the collective farm named after Ilyich" ... ". On the collective farm, the journalist was shown white English pigs weighing 450 kilograms. At the dairy farm, the guest saw “Simmental thoroughbred cows, which gave an average of 2,400 liters of milk in a dry year”, “zealous owners built a cheese factory, a butter factory, a sausage factory, a mill” at the collective farm ...

In the same 1938, shortly before Zhukov's visit, the collective farm was visited by well-known Moscow artists Boris Vladimirovich IOGANSON and Pyotr Dmitrievich POKARZHEVSKY. The guests got acquainted with the collective farmers, their life. They visited a school, a farm, a nursery, visited the fields. The artists made several sketches. Later, Ioganson created the monumental painting "Harvest Festival on the Ilyich Collective Farm", which was originally called "Life has become better, life has become more fun."

"Life has become better, life has become happier!" - a common version of the phrase uttered by the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks I.V. STALIN November 17, 1935 in a speech at the First All-Union Conference of Stakhanovite Workers and Workers. The full phrase sounded like this: “Life has become better, comrades. Life has become more fun. And when life is fun, the work is argued ... If we had a bad, unsightly, sad life, then we would not have any Stakhanovist movement.

FRIKH-KHAR Isidor Grigoryevich (1893-1978) "Life has become better, life has become more fun (Feast on the Azerbaijani collective farm)". 1939
Majolica. 153 x 265 cm.
State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.

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“During the period of the most terrible terror, everyday life improved in a strange way. After long hungry years, after collectivization and everything else that brought the people to almost complete exhaustion, there was a kind of calm. Stalin himself gave the go-ahead. He uttered the famous phrase: “Life has become it’s better, life has become more fun.” All the newspapers repeated it in chorus.
Stalin allowed the joys of life. He legitimized love, family happiness (it was very difficult to get a divorce), paternal duty, allowed poetry, allowed discussions about humanism, rouge and jewelry. Tango and foxtrot returned, and Leonid Utyosov created Soviet jazz. He had a song that accurately expresses the spirit of the new time:

In the alleys of the central park
May morning mignonette grows.
You can wear a very bright tie
And be a hero of labor in the mine.
How is it: reseda -
And a labor hero?
I don't understand, please explain to me.
Because we have
Everyone is young now
In our young beautiful country.

The year 1937 became a household name for the inhabitants of the former USSR, a symbol of the Great Terror, a senseless and merciless conveyor of arrests, torture, trials and executions. During that year, about 350 thousand people were killed, 315 times more than the previous year, 1936. Approximately the same number were sent to camps for "counter-revolutionary crimes."

However, in parallel with the bloody orgy in the country, everyday life somehow continued with its joys and worries, newspaper reports on trials were densely interspersed with reports of new successes in socialist construction and the exploits of brave pilots. And for Western tourists who came to the USSR in 1937, the horror of mass executions remained completely behind the scenes.

I propose to look at a small kaleidoscope of visual evidence of that hectic time. .

On January 6, a census of the population of the USSR was held. However, its preliminary results were almost immediately (10 days later) declared "wrecking"; responsible officials who conducted it were arrested and repressed. It seems that several millions were missing, and "above" did not like it.
* In the 1937 census, for the first and last time in our entire history from 1917 to the present day, there was a column "Religion" in the questionnaires. Many people filled it out, not being afraid to call themselves believers in those conditions. And this is after the infamous "five-year plan of godlessness" (1932-37)! Which was one of the reasons for the annulment of the results of the census and the repression of those who conducted it: if the facts do not suit the leadership, so much the worse for the facts

With unexpectedly great pomp in 1937, the USSR celebrated the centenary of the death of A.S. Pushkin (poster Buev and Jordan)
In 1937, the centenary of Pushkin's death was celebrated with great pomp, and two editions of the Complete Works were printed in millions of copies.

Pushkin was glorified even in the Gorno-Mari language

Cultural life in general was in full swing: citizens were urged to actively subscribe to foreign literature

Until the thirty-sixth year, everyone lived in the name of the "common cause" and no one thought about private life. She barely had enough to have children. And then suddenly, after a single phrase of Stalin's "life has become more fun," everything changed. The people obeyed.

In 1937, the second year began, as "Life has become better, life has become more fun" and the theme of people's happiness was actively played up by the authors of the posters.

"Thanks to the party, thanks to my dear Stalin for a happy, cheerful childhood!", 1937
Painters did not lag behind. In this painting by Alexander Deineka, we see a 1937 fashion show in Moscow

The picture "Soviet physical education" A. Samokhvalov wrote in 1937

Do not shy away from erotic motives. The famous sculpture of a girl with an oar by Shadr in Moscow's Gorky Park, 1937
* I always thought that the "Girl with a paddle" was in shorts. But somehow it didn't work out that way...
The "lady with the paddle" was in her underpants. Two sculptures by Shadr "Girls with an oar" were installed in the Central Park of Culture and Culture. One in 1935, the other in 1937. The first was criticized for being erotic and was removed. But the second one was naked. Judging by the view in the photo (buildings), it could be 1935 (?)
And the "Girl with a paddle" was later replaced with a dressed one, in shorts and a T-shirt


In the Caucasus, new resorts were built for workers. City buses on Stalinsky Prospekt in Sochi, 1937

"Citizens of the USSR have the right to rest" V.I. Govorkov, 1937

Slowly the stalls filled up. Smoked fish, caviar, four or even five varieties of cheese appeared. They began to sell oranges everywhere, Spanish ones. Cafes have opened. For example, "Cocktail Bar" on Gorky Street. There one could have a drink sitting in the semi-darkness on a high stool - this was considered the height of luxury. And in the "Artistic" opposite the Moscow Art Theater, you could have a cup of coffee before or after the performance and eat an omelet.

They began to dress better. Women began to go to hairdressers and do manicures - there were even manicurists in factories - they painted their lips with red lipstick, plucked their eyebrows. Previously, everyone dressed equally badly, but now there is some opportunity to be elegant. Fashion magazines began to appear again. Comrade Zhemchuzhina, Molotov's wife, was given responsibility for the production of perfumes, lotions and creams.


Particular attention in the USSR was paid to the emancipation of women. In 1937, motorist ladies became a fashionable topic. "We are learning to drive a car", S. Shor, 1937

The Communists began to regularly fall in love and start a family. At the same time, new literature appeared, lyrical poetry returned in the form of poems by Simonov and Dolmatovsky, who sang about love under the cloudless sky of their homeland. It was even allowed to mention Dostoevsky and Yesenin, for which earlier it was possible to go to jail for a long time.

And motorcyclists! "Motorcycle run of engineers' wives", A. Yar-Kravchenko, 1937


And pilots, of course. Poster by P. Karachentsev, 1937

The theater was then such a success, which then, perhaps, no longer had. At night we stood in queues for tickets to get to the Moscow Art Theater and see Kachalov, Moskvin, Knipper - Chekhov. The most fashionable performance was Anna Karenina, he even traveled to Paris.

The Days of the Turbins were a huge success. I knew people who went to the Turbins thirty-two times. Bulgakov showed that white officers also had a sense of dignity and a sense of honor. It was said that Stalin visited the performance many times, sat in the back of the box, hidden from view.

For successful women, the path was open to the very top. "Unforgettable meeting", Vasily Efanov, 1937

The year 1937 was marked by another success in the industrial and technological development of the country.
At the turnkey automobile factories built by the Americans, the production of American car models was increasing.
ZIS main conveyor, I. Shagin, 1937

“I don’t know another such country where a person breathes so freely.” It sounded incessantly on the streets from loudspeakers, and in apartments from “plates”, and God forbid, in the kitchen or in the corridor of a communal apartment, ask to be quieter. They would have informed instantly, there was no shortage of informers. It was impossible to hide from the avalanche of propaganda. Let's say, on each wall hung a photograph of Lenin and Stalin, called "Great Friendship." Then, under Khrushchev, it turned out that this was a photomontage: two different pictures - one of Lenin, the other of Stalin - were combined in order to canonize Stalin during his lifetime.

The futuristic steam locomotive-giant "Joseph Stalin" (1937) entered the steel highways


Handsome motor ships of previously unseen outlines entered the waterways, 1937.

One of the main events of the year was the opening of the Moscow-Volga channel.

He never appeared in public. He was invisible like a god

He never appeared in public. He was invisible, like a god. Sometimes he made phone calls in the middle of the night. There were many rumors in Moscow about his conversations with Pasternak, Ehrenburg, Stanislavsky. He invited actors to perform in the Kremlin. But ordinary people could see him only twice a year: at the mausoleum during parades on the first of May or the seventh of November.

Human trepidation is impossible to describe. Especially in young people. They woke up at six in the morning in anticipation of happiness, then waited for hours in columns ... Impatience, fun - they played the accordion, sang, carried banners and could not believe that they would see Him so close. They walked in ranks. When it was the turn to pass in front of the mausoleum, the pace accelerated, the guards commanded: take a wider step, faster, go faster! And people turned their necks to see as long as possible, to imprint in their memory the precious image of the leader and teacher.

He was idolized. People shouted "Long live Stalin!" when they were shot, convinced that he did not know what was happening to them. How later, during World War II, soldiers died with his name on their lips - this was described by Ehrenburg, Grossman, Paustovsky.

I never saw him. The only time I had a chance was when I got sick. In the evening, the guys, terribly excited, came to me to tell me. They were very sorry that I was not with them. I listened and once again felt like a stranger.

A large group of photographers, journalists and writers was immediately brought along the canal, and a luxurious photo album was published at the end of the trip.


However, aviation became the greatest pride of the USSR! In June 1937, the American city of Vancouver met the Soviet ANT-25 aircraft under the command of Chkalov


While the authorities mercilessly exterminated the command staff of the Red Army, the country was publicly preparing for war.
Teachings in the Leningrad region, 1937


"Collective farmers greet tankers during maneuvers", Ekaterina Zernova, 1937


Back in 1937, the "architectural genocide" reached its peak - the massive destruction of Orthodox and other churches.
Demolition of the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral in Baku, 1937

At the end of the year, elections were held to the Supreme Soviet, according to the new Stalinist Constitution of 1936.

The Soviet leadership did its best to advertise the country's successes in the West.
The "nail" of the World Exhibition of 1937 in Paris was the Soviet pavilion with a sculpture by Vera Mukhina


In 1937 thousands of Western tourists visited the USSR. Foreign tourists in Leningrad, 1937

Back in 1937, the rather famous German writer Lion Feuchwanger visited the USSR and wrote a book about it.

On October 26, 1932, Joseph Stalin called the writers "engineers of human souls." We decided to make a selection of the most famous statements of a political figure, which later became aphorisms.

"Life has become better, life has become happier!". Despite the fact that it was in this form that the phrase became widely known and used, it completely sounded like “Life has become better, comrades. Life has become more fun. then we would not have had any Stakhanovite movement." Stalin uttered it on November 17, 1935, during a speech at the First All-Union Conference of Stakhanovite Workers and Workers. Some historians see it as a clear irony, because the secretary of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks uttered these words on the eve of the peak of mass repressions. Stalin is even credited with "false optimism."

"Cadres decide everything". Stalin uttered this phrase on May 4, 1935, at the graduation of the red commanders. This is perhaps one of his most famous sayings. So extremely capaciously he formulated the essence of the party-political leadership of society.

"Winners can and should be judged". With this phrase, Stalin replayed the aphorism "the winners are not judged." It was uttered at a meeting of voters of the Stalin district of the city of Moscow on February 9, 1946. It sounded like this in full: “They say that the winners are not judged, that they should not be criticized, should not be checked. This is not true. Winners can and should be judged, they can and should be criticized and checked. This is useful not only for the cause, but also for themselves winners: there will be less arrogance, there will be more modesty.

"We have no prisoners, we only have traitors". These words were spoken by Stalin during the war, when he was offered to exchange his captive son for a high-ranking military general. Iosif Vissarionovich then refused and uttered his famous phrase.

"Chatterboxes have no place in operational work". This quote is from the reporting report to the 17th Party Congress on the work of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks. Stalin spoke of two types of people who "do not let us move forward." Here is his full quote: "One type of workers are people with known merit in the past, people who have become nobles ... These arrogant nobles think that they are irreplaceable ... And now about the second type of workers. I mean the type of talkers, I would say honest talkers, honest people, devoted to the Soviet regime, but not capable of leading, not capable of organizing anything. To the stormy applause of the audience, Iosif Vissarionovich pronounced a real verdict on the “talkers”: “What should be done with these incorrigible talkers? After all, if they are left on operational work, they are able to drown any living business in a stream of watery and endless speeches. It is obvious that they must be removed from leadership posts and put them in other, non-operational work. Talkers have no place in operational work!

"Our cause is just, the enemy will be defeated, victory will be ours". This slogan was first heard by Soviet citizens from the lips of V. M. Molotov, Deputy Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR. This was the final phrase of the appeal to the Soviet people, which he read out at 12 noon on June 22, 1941 - the day the Great Patriotic War began. Stalin repeated the call in his first radio speech on July 3, 1941: “... all the peoples of our country, all the best people of Europe, America and Asia, finally, all the best people of Germany ... see that our cause is just, that the enemy will be defeated, that we must win." However, there is an opinion that Molotov coordinated his text with Stalin, so the phrase belongs to the leader.

"Engineers of Human Souls". Stalin used the phrase on 26 October 1932 at a meeting with Soviet writers at Maxim Gorky's house. They say that the leader only repeated the statement of the famous Soviet writer Yuri Karlovich Olesha, which he liked, and thus officially introduced these words into the circle of popular expressions of his time.

"Every mistake has a first and last name". It was delivered in 1940. This phrase is also attributed to Stalin's closest associate, Beria, as well as Sergo Ordzhonikidze and People's Commissar Yezhov. There is an opinion that the People's Commissar of Railways Lazar Kaganovi said it first, and it sounded like this: "Every accident has a name, surname and position."

"You have to be a very brave person to be a coward in the Red Army." This quote is not attributed to anyone except Stalin. Sometimes it is even published as an anecdote from the time of Joseph Stalin.

"It doesn't matter how they voted, it matters how they counted". Stalin uttered these words in 1934 at the XVII Congress of the CPSU (b) regarding the procedure for the election of the General Secretary of the CPSU (b), in which he won. They were obviously ironic about the dishonest elections.

(quotes from books: Igor Kurlyandsky, "Stalin, Power, Religion"; Elena Prudnikova, "Joseph Dzhugashvili. The most humane person"; Zhuravlev P.A., "Meetings with Stalin".)

Life has become better, comrades, life has become happier, and when life is merry, work goes on.- a common version of the phrase uttered by the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks I. V. Stalin on November 17, 1935 in a speech at the First All-Union Conference of Workers and Workers - Stakhanovites. The full phrase was: “Life has become better, comrades. Life has become more fun. And when life is fun, the work is argued ... If we had a bad, unsightly, sad life, then we would not have any Stakhanovist movement ” .

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Not later than 1936, the phrase was enshrined in the refrain of the song “Life has become better, life has become more fun" (lyrics by V. I. Lebedev-Kumach):

Calls like birds, one after another,
Songs fly over the Soviet country.
Cheerful melody of cities and fields -
Life has become better, life has become more fun!

"This slogan is on all banners, posters, banners".

“The most beautiful flowers, the best combinations of colors were chosen by the working people of Leningrad for two endlessly repeating slogans: “Life has become better, comrades! Life has become more fun”, “Thanks to Comrade Stalin for a happy and joyful life!”

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sources

• Glebkin V. Ritual in Soviet culture. - M.: Janus-K, 1998.

This phrase is always relevant for our country. It was and is, and most likely will be. An outstanding person, no matter how you treat her, and no matter how she glorifies herself, differs from mediocrity in that she speaks incorruptible speeches. So this phrase, one way or another, resonates with the Russian. Simply, in different periods of the life of the country, it was perceived differently. It is literally like the joy of a sunny day, when a happy life loomed in a bright future full of hope. Well, maybe not for everyone, maybe someone will not live, but for their children, for sure. And then the chest was filled with enthusiasm, and Komsomol enthusiasm flared up in the eyes. “The country is united and grows and sings, with a song forges new happiness. You look at the sun - and the sun is brighter. Life has become better, life has become more fun.

And in other times, it was already perceived as a vestige of some kind of yesterday's life, full of youthful illusions, already looking stupid in stagnant gray everyday life. And maybe the majority of citizens, comparing their life with the life of their childhood, the life of their parents, could still take the first part of the phrase seriously - life has become better, then the second part is more fun, they already looked with irony. Yes, it was true, and it was not so gloomy. Blue lights, radio, stage, movies on TV and other mass cultural recreation, and even the same pursuit of scarcity gave spice. But, faith was in the inviolability of tomorrow. "Calls like birds, one after another, songs fly over the Soviet country."

But even today, this phrase is relevant. The truth is revealed to her, already some kind of mocking meaning. After all, what has become the best is perceived not in comparison with the past, but in comparison with the best - with a comfortable Europe. Yes, and as for more fun, the Comedy Club will not outdo it either. But, on a personal level, “more fun” is annoying. It is perceived as the need to constantly be in good shape and fight for life. Don't relax. There is a pensioner in Novosibirsk having fun. For an increase to her kopecks, she came to the Minister of Labor and Social Development with a rope and soap, and matches, with salt, with the words: “There are no words, how grateful I am for the increase in pension of 89 rubles from the minister! Here is a gift, I give it for the amount of the increase "-" Cheerfully singing cities and fields - life has become better, life is more fun.

And the best is already the worst. The worse, the better - survival of the fittest. That is the slogan of today. After all, no one is against it. The government wants to instill survival instincts among the people, why breed parasites. After all, the currency is volatile, inflation is in progress, prices are rising for everything from fuel to dill. And we can’t understand why this world community cannot see clearly that a person is a friend to a person. As it grabbed at the throat, it strives to bite it. So everything goes back to normal. Darwin's laws, like Newton's, have not been repealed. Of course, one can also remember humanitarian values, but this is for those who have mastered the law. And so, we were discouraged by socialism and all sorts of others with a human face. We forgot that mammals are also animals. “Know, all of you, we are on the alert, we will not give up spans of land to the enemy.”

Maybe from the official stands, statesmen are ashamed to cut the truth of the uterus. They stand at the microphone, rumple and pick up affectionate expressions, so as not to frighten the people. Covered with varnished words. Well, after all, they can also be understood, we are the electorate, we must vote. And we have elections, this is a permanent process. Here, then there, then there, then here. Either we elect the head of the country, or where, which mayors, or Duma members, to this or that legislative assembly, or even just some municipalities. So, dear friends, comrades, and gentlemen, if you want to stab you in the eye like that, no one will. And then what good will you go to rebel. And they ate everything at once, then the Russian Guard will not be enough for everyone, not to frighten with Armats. “Fathers and children have Silushka, life has become better, live on bills.”

And why be sad, where to go. Why look at the little things, so what if there are more micro-borrowers by a third compared to last year. And to hell with the fact that the black market for such loans is comparable to the white market (100 billion rubles). On the other hand, the number of citizens, compared to 1991, who believe that they live above the average (10%) has doubled. Yes, and those who consider themselves to be in the middle level became 64%, which is 15% more than in the 1990s (VTsIOM). In addition, since then Russia has been able to catch up and overtake America. Not in everything, of course, but in the level of concentration of wealth per capita, they made them like children. So in Russia, 10% of the population accounts for 82% of personal wealth, and in the States, only 76%, and in China even less - 62% (data from a report by the Swiss bank Credit Suisse). So that we live, do not grieve - "Life has become better, life has become more fun."