In the Russian -language segment of the network, a quote about Ukrainian nationalists, attributed to the Soviet military leader, is popular. We checked the correctness of such an attribution.
The quote is completely like this: “I often thought about the nature of Bandera hatred to the Russians until I met expression: hatred is the revenge of a coward for fear tested by him.” Marshal Zhukov is attributed to her Users social networks X, "VKontakte" Facebook And Telegram.
The main and practically the only written work of the Soviet commander Georgy Zhukov is a two -volume "Memories and thoughts", Published in 1969. In neither in numerous biographies military leader, as well as in other documents (speeches, notes, letters) “verified” did not find quotes, even remarkably reminiscent of the considered. In all these sources, Zhukov mentions the word "Bandera" only one day - And in a completely different context, when he talks about the attack on General Nikolai Vatutin in the west of Ukraine. Judging by the base of the project "Google Books", In print publications, the verified statement was not attributed at all.
Aphorism, which is included in the quote in question (“Hatred is the revenge of a coward for fear tested by him), really exists and gained popularity thanks to the play”Major Barbara"(1905) Irish playwright George Bernard show. Her language into Russian For the first time Nina Daruzes translated in 1946, and in that translation the ending of the phrase was lowered - the hero’s replica It sounded Just like "hatred is a revenge of a coward." In the same translation play reprinted And in 1956. In its entirety, this statement appeared in Russian -speaking publications only in 1966, eight years before Zhukov’s death, in the collection "Aphorisms for foreign sources".
As the analysis of publications in social networks shows, a statement in which the hatred of Bandera to the Russians is explained through the aphorism of the show, It became spread signed by Zhukov in early June 2019, shortly after demolition Monument to the Soviet marshal in Kharkov. Dismantling was organized by representatives of the National Corps party. The city authorities soon returned the bust to the place, but in April 2022, without waiting for the decision of the administration, activists They took it off again Sculpture with a pedestal.
However, in the second half of the 2010s this phrase More often used in demotivators Without indicating authorship. The earliest incident of its publication was dated March 24, 2015, when the statement was placed in a public "Carried policy"On VKontakte.
But there is one nuance. In this publication, instead of Bandera, Banderalogs are mentioned - as in the Russian patriotic environment they do not call the associates of Stepan Bandera, but modern Ukrainian nationalists and their supporters. Appeared This designation is already in the 21st century. In other words, the statement was originally submitted in a modern context, and this only confirms the version that Zhukov was attributed to Zhukov retroactively. Words about the revenge of a coward for fear tested by him some Internet users brought Back in 2014, immediately after Euromaidan, Describing So the attitude of part of the Ukrainian society to Russian politics.
Thus, Marshal Zhukov has nothing to do with the quote about the hatred of Bandera to the Russians. She appeared shortly after the Ukrainian revolution of the dignity of 2013-2014 and initially spread in the context of those events.
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