Did Bismarck say: “There is nothing more vile and disgusting than the so -called Ukrainians”?

Among the quotes, signed by the German Chancellor, common in the Russian -speaking part of the Internet, one can also find an unflattering characteristic against the Ukrainian people. We checked whether these words really belong to Otto von Bismarck.

The utterance looks like this (spelling and punctuation are preserved): “There is nothing more vile and disgusting than the so -called" Ukrainians "! This is a fraud, filled with Poles from the most vile garbage of the Russian people (murderers, careerists, reptiles to the authority of the intelligentsia), is ready to kill their own father and mother for power and a profitable place! These geeks are ready to break their fellow tribesmen, and not even for the sake of benefit, but for the sake of satisfying their low instincts, there is nothing saint for them, betrayal is the norm for them, they are wretched by the mind, evil, envious, cunning of special cunning. These nonhumans have incorporated all the worst and lowest from Russians, Poles and Austrians, for good qualities in their souls there was no room left. Most of all they hate their benefactors, those who made them good and are ready to repent in every way before the powers that be. They are not adapted to anything and can do only primitive work, they could never create their own state, many countries drove them like a ball throughout Europe, slave instincts were so ate that they covered their entire essence with disgusting ulcers. ”

This maxim in different years appeared on information and entertainment sites ("Mangazey","Picabu"), And in social networks ("Living magazine" Facebook, Telegram, Twitter). It was quoted by a Russian politician Vladimir Zhirinovsky On the air of the current show "Sunday evening with Vladimir Solovyov." In some places, the statement is even given In the language of the original.

Otto von Bismarck, along with Winston Churchill, is one of the most often quoted by foreign politicians in Runet. Moreover, quotes as First, so second Often they turn out to be fictional, and it is helped by the fact that the legacy of figures of this scale is fixed as fully as possible.

First of all, we tried to find something in the German-speaking sources, at least a little similar to the indicated text about Ukrainians, but we did not find anything like this. It is not only about the authoritative sources directly related to the Bismarck (a selection of quotes for Fund page his name, who is engaged in the heritage of the chancellor, and memoirs), but also in principle about any available scanned print media from the project "Google Books", As well as about sites from the .de domain. The version mentioned above in the native language Otto von Bismarck, apparently, is a translation from Russian, since Found Almost exclusively on Russian resources. Moreover, when in 2014 employees of the German public television and radio company Deutsche Welle tried To check another quote from the Chancellor (“The power of Russia can be undermined only by the department from it of Ukraine”), then they received from German historians from the Otto von Bismarark Foundation that he did not know the words “Ukraine” at all. We also did not find this and derivatives from him in books Бисмарка — по крайней мере, в авторской части текста. One way or another, but the origin of the quote is not related to Bismarck.

As for the Russian-speaking sources of the text, the oldest indexed mention on the Web is dated March 24 of the same 2014, when the LIGP-user from Russia under the nickname Klim_vo posted this quote allegedly Bismarck in Comments under the post of another user. If someone published these words earlier than Klim_vo, then we could not find the relevant records with available technical means.

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Incorrect attribution of quote

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