The popular quote, the authorship of which is attributed to the British prime minister, is devoted to possible manipulations and purposeful emasculation of the concept of “fascism”. We checked whether its author really is Sir Winston Churchill.

The statement that will be discussed in recent years often lead, speaking of hostilities in Ukraine. The fact that it was from under the pen of Winston Churchill is reported by resources such as Izvestia (philosopher and writer Andrey Ashkerov), "Radio Liberty" (political prison German Obukhov, deputy of the Verkhovna Rada Artyom Vitko), "Freedom of speech in Ukraine", "Our Kyiv", "Censor.net", "Ukraine.ru" and even a factor portal Stopfake.org.

There is another, very well -known case of attribution to Winston Churchill of this quote. On August 7, 2018, the Governor of Texas Greg Ebbott posted on his twitter a demotivator created on the basis of a popular statement:

Ebbott is a high -ranking and popular figure, so his tweet caused considerable excitement. Until the fact that on August 13, the International Churchill Society responded to him - the most authoritative resource in the issue of the heritage of the famous British. This is what was said in the company posted on the website publications: “Unfortunately, as it turned out soon, the governor became the victim of Churchill's drift, attributing to the aphorism of unknown origin to Winston Churchill. Churchill's words are quoted in tweet: "The fascists of the future will call themselves anti -fascists." The reporters from Texas to Washington hastened to contact the International Churchill Society and find out whether this quote really belongs to Churchill.

"This quote has never been documented as pronounced or written by Churchill," said in an interview with a newspaper Austin american-statesman Churchill Bulletin editor David Fream. “The incorrect attribution of Ebbotta is not particularly flashing,” continued Friman, “since Churchill criticized both extremes of the political spectrum.”

Another resource, The Churchill Project, confirmed that the quote could not be found in the vast archive of the scanned documents for 160 million words in a heated archive. It would seem that all questions have been removed. However, I would like to understand where this quote came from? The first such maxims in the English -language press appear in 1936, and not in the UK, but in the USA. So, in February-March in the newspaper The Cincinnati Inquirer Several times they quoted the Presbyterian pastor of Norman Thomas: "Fascism will most likely come to the United States, but not under this name." One of the articles contained a clarification: “With this statement, he repeated the words of the late Hughi Long, but Hugh added:“ Of course, we will have it. We will take place under the mask of anti -fascism. ”

After that, the statement became popular and, according to the resource The Quote InvestigatorIn the next ten years, it appeared in at least a dozen articles. Hughi Long, the famous American senator, killed in 1935 and became the prototype of the prototype of the protagonist Robert Penn Warren, “The All royal army”, who was in the quote. However, there is no reliable evidence that Long made such a statement. As for Sir Winston Churchill, then aphorism began attribute Only in the area of 2010. Its authorship in this case is completely excluded.