A motivating statement attributed to the former British Prime Minister was widely dispersed on the Internet. We decided to check if she said something like that.

This phrase indicating the authorship of Margaret Thatcher is popular on sites with collections aphorisms And Quote famous personalities. Users of social networks share it, for example Facebook*, "VKontakte" And Twitter, as well as a blog-platform ("Zen" Livejournal). Service visitors questions And answers They are interested in who the author of this statement is that most often they answer that it is “Iron Lady”.

Despite the fact that in Russian, the statement was very widely dispersed, in English it is much less common, and almost always - either along with the Russian -speaking version, or in the blogs of Russian -speaking people. In addition, in English, unlike Russian, there are two options for saying: “Never Give Up, and You Will See How Others Give Up” and “Never Give Up, and You Will See Others Surrender”. This indirectly indicates that the phrase is most likely translated from another language, hence the discrepancies. But this is strange, given that it was in English that the British prime minister, most likely, was supposed to pronounce it.

All the famous public speeches of the former British prime minister are collected on site Foundation Margaret Thatcher. More than 8,000 texts of performances, interviews and other statements of a politician were published there. Nothing similar to this quote is "tested" in this digital archive detect failed.

The desired phrase appeared on the Internet (mainly in the form signatures participants in various forums or as motto Internet users) back in the early 2010s, but Tatcher was not attributed. In some sources The author of the statement was completely called the murdered in 2017 by Mikhail Tolstoy, one of the commanders of the armed units of the self -proclaimed DPR, better known under the pseudonym Givi. Judging by memories His mother, this phrase really was his motto and even hung above the entrance to the unit, where he served the Tolstoy. However, given that on the Internet the quote was found until 2014, when Givi gained wide fame, there is no reason to believe that he was the author of this statement.

The earliest case of using this quote indicating the authorship of the British Prime Minister, which “verified” was found, - fast On the social network X (Twitter), published in the profile of journalist and TV presenter Ksenia Sobchak on September 28, 2012. He scored 580 retweets and, even if he was not the first case of such an attribution, could contribute to the rooting of this statement on the Russian-speaking Internet precisely as the words of the British Prime Minister.

This is not the only statement attributed to Thatcher that is found on the Twitter account Sobchak. So, in March 2012, TV presenter Published The quote "People at first hate you for unpopular decisions, but the next day they thank." A similar replica is in a biographical film "Iron lady", Which Sobchak I looked That day. Judging by the fact that in the archives of the Tatcher Foundation there is no such statement, most likely, the scriptwriters came up with this phrase. It is likely that the analyzed motivating quote could meet Sobchak in the publication about Thatcher or any film about politics.

Thus, there is no reason to believe that Thatcher has ever said that there is no need to give up and then you can see how others are surrendered. In digitized and well -studied archives of her statements there is no such quote, and in the English -language segment of the Internet it is quite rare. The phrase began to appear in Internet publications in the early 2010s, but then it was not attributed to Thatcher. The first case of such an attribution, which “verified” was found, is a post on Twitter TV presenter Ksenia Sobchak, who probably indicated the authorship of Thatcher by mistake.

*Russian authorities They think Meta Platforms Inc., which owns the social network Facebook, an extremist organization, its activities in Russia are prohibited.

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