The phrase “Chubais has been to blame for everything since the 1990s” remembers each time one of the main organizers of privatization. Often the authorship of this expression is attributed to the first president of Russia. We decided to figure out if this is so.
Yeltsin’s authorship is mentioned both in blogs and in the media. For example, in February 2022, political analyst Arkady Dubnov He wrote On Facebook: “But one way or another, we will definitely find out again that“ Chubais is to blame for everything, ”how almost affectionately he was struggled for“ Grandfather Yeltsin ”a quarter of a century ago.” In 2020, journalists used this phrase "Rosbalt", not at all in doubt about the authorship of the first president of Russia.
In 2022 book Mikhail Fishman "The successor. The story of Boris Nemtsov and the country, in which he did not become the president, ”the authorship of the quote is not directly indicated, but the circumstances in which it arose is mentioned. “Firing Chubais (from the post of first deputy prime minister.-Approx. Ed.), Yeltsin blamed him even the elections in parliament just lost: they say, if not Chubais in the Government, headed by the Prime Minister of Chernomyrdin,“ Our House-Russia ”would receive twice as many seats-the famous saying was born,“ Chubais would be born ”, - Writes Fishman. The same episode Curses and the research project “The heyday of the Russian media. The era of Yeltsin. 1992-1999 ".
Elections of 1995 The Communist Party won the State Duma, which received 22.3% of the votes. The LDPR (11.2%) took the second place in party lists, the “our house - Russia” of Chernomyrdina became only the third with 10.13%. The permutations in the structure of the authorities were inevitable; in the summer of 1996, the presidential election was ahead. Almost immediately after the New Year holidays, January 16, 1996, Chubais was resigned (formally he left on their own).
Chubais began work in the government back in 1991, when he was appointed head of the State Property Committee, and already in 1992 received a position Deputy Prime Minister. It was he who became the author of the privatization program, according to which it was possible to redeem state property. As part of the program, vouchers were released - privatization checks with a nominal value of 10,000 rubles. Chubais at the same time He saidthat in a few years, two Volga cars can be obtained for the voucher. Privatization passed, enterprises concentrated in the hands of large owners, vouchers depreciated, the name of Chubais became a symbol of injustice.
On January 19, 1996, after the CIS summit, Yeltsin held a press conference at which he criticized the former deputy prime minister. The next day is a report about this appeared In the newspaper Kommersant: “Anatoly Chubais’s resignation was quite unusual in its sharpness. He, according to Yeltsin, did a lot, but also made many mistakes and even “shut up” (this is about the latest auctions for the sale of large objects of state property). In addition, according to the president, that “our house-Russia” received only 10% of the vote, Chubais is again to blame: “They would take Chubais before the elections, it would be 20%.” That is, in the presentation of Yeltsin, Chubais is not to blame for everything, but in many ways.
The phrase about the fault of Chubais received her triumphal development in a week. In the evening of January 27, she sounded in the next issue of the weekly satirical program “Dolls” on NTV. The episode was called "Hostages". According to the scenario, almost all the main political figures sat under fire on the bus and looked for ways to solve the problem. The exit was never found - in the very last scene, the character of Boris Yeltsin sits in a bus burned to the ground and with a characteristic lengthy intonation speaks: “Chubais is to blame for everything! If this was not Chubais, everything would be fine with us. ”
The scriptwriter of the Puppet Viktor Shenderovich already in 2021 expressed doubt that he was the author of the phrase “Chubais is to blame for everything.” He wrote about it in Facebook And he clarified that he completely does not remember now what the source of the quote was, according to Shenderovich, “quite vulgar and banal” by the time of creating the episode “dolls”. In the comments he was reminded of an article in Kommersant and Yeltsin’s press conference. But many assured that they personally remembered how Yeltsin pronounced the phrase in this formulation - among them, for example, the editor -in -chief of The New Times, Evgeny Albats. As a result, the journalists who worked in the 1990s came to the consensus: Yeltsin said about the guilt of Chubais, and Schenderovich brought it to the extent of the “meme”, who owns the exact quote “Chubais is to blame for everything”. Shenderovich himself finally agreed with this.
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