The phrase attributed to the political scientist has become a popular New Year's congratulation on Russian -speaking social networks. We found out whether Shulman really said so. And if not she, then who?

The phrase “if a garland hangs in the room, and not you - this is an achievement” with attribution Ekaterina Shulman began to spread on social networks in December 2023 and then received a new round of popularity at the end of 2024. Parts with this quote can be found in “VKontakte" X, Facebook (1, 2, 3, 4) And Instagram. At the same time, Shulman herself repeatedly denied its authorship.

Political scientist and teacher Ekaterina Shulman gained popularity from the audience of Russian -speaking media due to her educational activities: she gives public lectures and conducts the program "Status"(First-at the Echo of Moscow radio stations, and after its closure-immediately on three YouTube channels- your own, project ""Living nail" And "Bild in Russian"). She is already Not once She became heroine memes, but usually they were purely joke in nature and did not use specific quotes from Schulman's performances.

The earliest publication of this quote with the attribution of Ekaterina Shulman, which was “checked”, Dated December 24, 2023 and scored 177,000 views. As far as we managed to track, it was from this post to X that the distribution of the statement began. In the comments, the author of the post clarifies that “this is a free retelling” Shulman and “it was in one of the video, I don’t even remember, it seems just summing up the results of the year.”

The video, most suitable for this description, was the New Year's Stream "The results of the year with Ekaterina Schulman", Which took place on December 11, 2023 on the 7 × 7 Horizontal Russia YouTube channel (recording was also published on personal channel Shulman). Although there was no phrase attributed to the political scientist, during Stream a little similar sounded, if not in meaning, then in the mood statement: “If you have retained an even number of limbs and a whole cranial box, this is already not bad. This is something that can be started with. On this basis, you can develop further. Therefore, if you not only survived the 22nd year, but also the 23rd, and listen to us now, then your results are already completely outstanding. It seems to me that some kind of basic contact with reality, which implies awareness-at least partial-what happened to us at all, what exactly we are experiencing ... Now, if you are again, not in fullness, but at least partially oxen this with a mental gaze, and then congratulate yourself with the fact that you maintain a vertical position, stand up in the morning, and even support the basic personal hygiene and even You manage to do something for which they pay the money and is not mentioned in the Criminal Code-then you are generally so well done that you need to present some invisible order. ”

The phrase “hangs garland, not you” (or, as an option, “not me”) was known in social networks, especially in X, and before that (1, 2, 3). It was on this platform that we found the earliest use - it Dated November 21, 2021.

Thus, the author of the quote dispersed on the Internet is not Ekaterina Shulman. This gloomy joke was known in social networks before it was attributed to the political scientist. However, in one of the streams of December 2023, she expressed a relatively similar thought.

Photo on the cover: Catherine Shulman account on Facebook