The quote attributed to one of the fathers of independent India gained great popularity in Russia in near political rhetoric. We checked whether her author was Nera.

In 2020, Nikita Mikhalkov referred to the words of Neru in one of the issues of his Besogontv program. Later, journalists of the Channel "Tsargrad" devoted to this issue article “Dangerous“ tricks ”of Gref against Russia exposed on the air of Mikhalkov in one exact quote.” The author of numerous books on the history of Kazakhstan Kalibek Daniyarov in his work also cited the phrase "Anyrakai and Dzungaria".

In an interview with Mridula Gosh, the international historian and founder of the Tagore Center in Ukraine, a journalist used this phrase with reference to Neru Newspapers "Day". A quote got into numerous Collections of aphorisms. And sometimes a statement (with the word "elite" instead of "intelligentsia") attributed No less well -known person - Mahatma Gandhi, mentor Nera.

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The search for similar statements in the Russian -speaking publications of the works of Javaharlala Neru and Mahatma Gandhi does not lead to anything. There are no similar in structure of phrases and in English -speaking sources that are historically connected with India.

As for the history of the occurrence of a phrase in Russian -speaking sources, one of its first references can be found in publications AFORism LiveJournal Committee on May 6, 2009. Among the printed sources, we can distinguish the above book by Daniyarov, published in 2002. And the use of the phrase in the format “in the figurative expression of J. Neru, each colonialist took place that the intelligentsia brought up by him became the enemy of his people in the Ukrainian newspaper "Mirror of the week" dated February 23, 1996. In this embodiment, chronologically the first among all available sources of the phrase, the meaning, as can be seen with careful reading, is somewhat different.

Thus, with a high degree of probability, it can be argued that the “quote” Neru (or Gandhi) appeared somewhere in the post-Soviet space in the 90s of the last century.