In July 2023, the Russian newspaper published an article by Dmitry Medvedev with an epigraph in the form of a quote about an airplane that takes off against the wind, which the politician attributed to the writer Ain Rand. We decided to check if she said something like that.
July 2, 2023, Rossiyskaya Gazeta appeared article Deputy Chairman of the Security Council and ex-president of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev, devoted mainly to relations between Russia and Western countries. As an epigraph to this publication, a quote was used “When it seems that the whole world is against you, remember that the plane does not fly in the wind, but against it”, signed by the name of the American writer, the author of the novel “Atlanta straightened his shoulders”, Ain Rand.
Under the pseudonym Ain Rand Alice Rosenbaum wrote, she was born in 1902 in St. Petersburg and emigrated to the USA in 1926. All her books, letters and other sources are well studied and digitized - you can get acquainted with them, for example, in archives Institute of Ain Rand - a non -profit analytical center, including the writer's heritage. Nothing similar to the quote used in the article “Rossiy newspaper” could not find other similar sources in this.
Moreover, the attribution of this phrase Rand before the publication of the article by Medvedev is not found on the Internet - usually statement attributed Henry Ford. However, most likely, he also never said this. Our colleagues from the project The Quote Investigatordedicated to checking the attribution of quotes, came to the conclusion that this quote is a later version of the inspiring phrase about the air snake, which takes off precisely against the wind. The earliest study of the use of metaphor about the aircraft in close to the disassembled formulation - the Cartoon "Village Pastor" of 1955. And for the first time she was attributed to Henry Ford, apparently, in 1988 in the small American newspaper The Ridgewood News, more than 40 years from the day death inventor.
If you google this quote and add the name of Ain Rand to it, except for the mentions of the article “Rossiy newspaper”, there is only one source - the site - the site anekdotov.net. There, the phrase, as on other similar portals, is attributed to Henry Ford, however, another statement signed by the name of Ain Rand is placed directly above it. Journalist Ilya Shepelin suggestedthat the author of the article in the Rossiyskaya Gazeta did not figure out what name refers to, deciding that it was the quote about the aircraft that was signed by the name Ain Rand.
It is not surprising that the very next day the signature to the quote in the article “Rossiy newspaper” was Changed “Henry Ford is attributed to“ The saying and Ain Rand is mentioned. The exact source is unknown. ”
It is noteworthy that at the end of Medvedev’s article, Anton Pavlovich’s quote is given (obviously, I mean Chekhov): “Life is essentially a very simple thing, and a person needs to make a lot of efforts to spoil it.” She really is very very Popular V Internet In various Collections Quotes of this classic. But even in this case, attribution is most likely wrong: in National Corps of the Russian Language, the largest base of digitized Russian -speaking literary texts, this quote is not at all, as in Fundamental electronic library Russian literature and folklore. Search for all works Chekhov also did not give results.
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Incorrect attribution of quote
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