It is generally accepted that it was the Russian prime minister who enriched the Russian language by aphorism, which often characterize unsuccessful decisions of the power of those who are in power. We checked whether Chernomyrdin was really the first to use it.

The authorship of this expression is attributed to Chernomyrdin, in particular, BBC, "Vedomosti", "Russian newspaper", "RIA Novosti" "Gramota.ru" and many other sources. The first part of it (“wanted the best”) was the name Books About Chernomyrdin and the era of Yeltsin, released on the 70th anniversary of Viktor Stepanovich.

CountsThe Russian politician used the most famous of the Chernomyrdinok on August 6, 1993, characterizing the monetary reform two weeks before, when the country covered the country due to compressed terms for the exchange of Soviet banknotes for new rubles. At a press conference, he allegedly stated: “They wanted the best, but it turned out ...”, and the journalist sitting in the hall added: “As always.” In some sources It is said that the quote originally ended on "it came out as always." Today, the network has not been preserved on the press conference, so we cannot confirm or refute this fact, although it is unlikely that such a detailed attribution could be invented by representatives of the authoritative media. We only note that in this case, to consider Viktor Stepanovich to be a full -fledged author of the phrase.

Nevertheless, it was then, after 1993, the phrase became popular. In the fall of the same year, it used it Grigory Yavlinsky, and already in 1994 it began to be used massively in press And literature, and almost immediately with attribution exactly Victor Chernomyrdin.

But could this phrase even sound in August 1993 for the first time? According to the two -volume "Archive of the Russian Financial and Ban Revolution", even before Chernomyrdin, it was used by Soviet Prime Minister Valentin Pavlov about another exchange of money held in 1991. But since a specific day and the situation when it sounded is not specified, this version cannot be considered convincing.

However, there are other sources. IN "Diaries of different years" The Russian anarchist Pyotr Kropotkin can meet the maxim “The state in relation to society is obsessed with bad habits, and is obsessed with involuntarily: it wanted how better, but it turned out as always.” Similar to the accuracy until the translation is the statement attributed The leader of the Polish United Workers' Party Edward Gerek (1912–2001). Finally, in No. 22 of the magazine "Soviet screen" In 1988, this species had one of the subtitles of the article by Mikhail Levitin about the Golden Duke film festival: