Many of our contemporaries remember thisa bright political figure as Viktor Stepanovich Chernomyrdin. This man was the prime minister of our country in the very difficult 90s of the last century. However, today many people remember not so much the person of Viktor Stepanovich himself, as Chernomyrdin's quote.
It is their study and this article is devoted to.
To explain who Chernomyrdin is, you need only the generation that was born already under Putin. Older people remember him. However, not everyone knows the main milestones of this person's biography.
This future politician was born inthe Russian outback in the Chkalovsk region, in the village of Black Otrohn. It happened in 1938. A very small child, he survived the war, and forever remembered the day when Levitan proclaimed through all Soviet radio stations the news of the Soviet victory.
Victor studied well and was able to make a very successful career. He became the director of one of the large industrial enterprises and successfully worked for many years.
Chernomyrdin Victor Stepanovich, whose quotations in the future will disperse bit by bit, worked in the oil and gas industry. And, by the way, he managed as a manager of high production results.
By the way, Chernomyrdin was respected inworking environment not only because he was able to show principles in the right questions, but also because he was able to talk with the working class in a language they understand.
Quotations of Chernomyrdin are now included in the dictionaries of Russian neologisms, some linguistic scientists even came up with a name for them. They are called "black muzzles".
Biographers of Viktor Stepanovich himself explainthe fact of their appearance is that the politician himself for many years quite freely communicated in Russian, resorting to taboo vocabulary when necessary. But when he had to take the responsible post of prime minister, then there was no question of any mate in the direct television broadcast, so the politician had to "swallow" some phrases and especially vivid interjections. As a result, he got very florid and contradictory statements.
Today, even in an open sale, you can find books and brochures entitled "Chernomyrdin: quotations and aphorisms". The phrase of this politician was so strongly remembered to people.
If we turn to ordinary passers-by on the streets with a request to recall Chernomyrdin's most famous phrases, they will most likely say the phrase: "We wanted, as best, but it turned out, as always".
The most surprising thing is that this statement can bein general, to convey the spirit of the post-perestroika era, when people were torn from the USSR to freedom and material well-being, but were given the ruin of the 1990s, the general impoverishment and the collapse of all hopes.
Paradoxical Chernomyrdin is the best inhis speeches conveyed the whole inconsistency of his time, when the former party figures of the USSR, after burning their membership cards, were able to take large pieces of state property and, concealing themselves by talking about democracy and a happy capitalist future, take their hard-earned capital abroad.
Let's try to carefully consider the most famous statements of Chernomyrdin.
1. About a new system, just built and imperfect ....
2. About the people ...
Until now, in the scientific world there is no clear and consistent definition of what should be considered Viktor Stepanovich's phrases: a manifestation of his egregious illiteracy or a peculiar style of speech.
When the politician held the post of prime minister, representatives of the intelligentsia were inclined, most likely, to blame Chernomyrdin for his absurd expressions.
Today, after the death in 2010 of Viktor Stepanovich, his critics diminished.
In any case, today Chernomyrdin's quotations became a symbol of his bright and distinct personality.
And meanwhile, despite the fact that the phrases uttered by Chernomyrdin were sometimes completely absurd, they betrayed the peculiarities of his thinking, and his political strategy and tactics.
Viktor Stepanovich headed the Cabinet in difficult forthe time when Russia was threatened with total collapse and an age of timelessness. He tried, as best he could, to bring some order, but his efforts often led to negative consequences.
What to say. Again, "they wanted, how better ...".
Meanwhile, try more carefullyconsider one of his phrases: "We can not join, because if we start doing this, then we will definitely step on something." This phrase has a simple explanation: before you say anything or do something, the government needs to think it over.
In general, all this is clear. But, perhaps, the phrase said in its classic form, and remained misunderstood and not heard, but in such exotic performance, and even from the mouth of Viktor Stepanovich, she began to sound in a completely new light.
Viktor Chernomyrdin has done a lot for his life. Quotations of it today are perceived quite differently than it was 20 years ago.
In fact, in the late 80's. The last century in our country began an era that many linguists call the period of barbarization of the language, believing that this period of barbarization has become the third in our history.
This period is characterized by the fact that inAs a result of the rapid change in the socioeconomic and political course, the native language begins to undergo significant changes: the number of borrowings, criminal slang, taboo vocabulary, words with negative semantics is growing.
Chernomyrdin's quotes in this connection reflecta mass phenomenon - the emergence of a new sublanguage. In this case, a sublanguage of political activity. And let this language was contradictory, paradoxical and even in some way clumsy. Such, unfortunately, was the entire political situation of those years.
Today, Chernomyrdin's collection of quotations can be found without difficulty in any sources, and it is possible that the quotation of the policy will be considered as a source of understanding of the entire epoch of the 90s. last century.
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