Winged expressions, stable phrases, turns of speech - all this is found everywhere in our life. They are full of speech, they are full of movies and radio, television, and literature.
It will be interesting to understand who said: "There is no person - there is no problem." These words are often put in the mouth of villains, heroes of numerous criminal series of one well-known television channel.
Exposure
If you conduct a small survey with the reading population of our country, many will answer that the catch-phrase for the first time flew out of the mouth of the "Leader of the Peoples" - comrade Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (Dzhugashvili). From the history of the Land of Soviets it is known for certain that this man was a cruel person, capable of the most extreme measures in relation to "enemies of the people."
Who were they, these same "enemies of the people"? According to historians, the leader very often suspected people of conspiracies and betrayals. This kind of incredulity in itself is alarming. Probably, the mania of persecution was developed - one of the mental disorders. His associates noted that the head of the country had a hard look, suppressed his energy, was suspicious and kept his entourage in awe.
But, being "at the helm" of power, Stalin could afford any actions, fitting them into the framework of political expediency. In clarifying the question of who said: “There is no man - no problems, ” it is quite realistic to assume that this expression belongs to Joseph Stalin.
The meaning of the statement
It is important to understand the meaning of such a “bold” statement, how a person could even say that.
Indeed, in those days, death solved all problems: if there is no person, there are no problems. The black funnel at the entrance during the years of repression caused terror among the population. Arrests, camps, "enemies of the people" are gloomy symbols of the 30s and 40s for the USSR. Historians call the stages of repression "waves." Arrests occurred as if by magic of a schizophrenic magician.
Enemies seemed to Stalin everywhere: in the army (talented commanders were shot), in medicine (the well-known "case of doctors"). Moreover, among the common people - workers, peasants and intelligentsia there were a sufficient number of "traitors to Soviet power." Actually, eliminating people, the “leader of the peoples” eliminated problems, as he himself thought.
The executions and camps spread so much that they no longer surprised anyone. And the terms of imprisonment are simply amazing - an average of 25 years. There was no talk of any freedom of speech. But the worst thing is that encouraged as a civic consciousness: denunciation and slander. A friend could write a denunciation to a friend, a neighbor to a neighbor. An atmosphere of distrust and suspicion reigned. The strange thing is that in such a gloomy reality, people managed to somehow live, love, build families and raise children.
So who said that?
All of the above characterizes Comrade Dzhugashvili as a tyrant, despot, not quite an adequate person, by the will of fate put in the post of leader. The fact that Joseph Stalin literally physically destroyed his people indicates the great likelihood of his authorship of the winged expression.
So who said: "No man - no problem"? Let's be honest, the “leader of the peoples” could say this, it was in his manner. Like no one else, he would dare to say such words with impunity based on historical facts. Which is not true, since no one could prove it.
Fishermen. Children Arbat
No matter how cruel "Comrade Stalin" was, at the same time he was cautious and cunning as a politician. He did not consider it open to declare his bloody plans openly. But still there is a solution to the riddle, to whom the saying "There is a person - there is a problem, there is no person - there is no problem"
The famous Soviet writer Anatoly Naumovich Rybakov created the novel "Children of the Arbat", which was published in 1987. With the writer's easy hand, a catch phrase was put into the mouth of the leader. It was in this work that Stalin said: "Death solves all problems. There is no man, and there is no problem." The work dealt with the execution of military specialists in Tsaritsyn (in 1918).
The famous expression so fit into the look of Dzhugashvili himself that the reader did not doubt the authenticity of the historical moment by one iota. Although completely and completely this fact is an artistic invention of the author of the novel - Rybakov.
Copyright recognition
Rybakov himself wondered why the winged expression is attributed to Joseph Stalin. He drew attention to the popularity of this phrase, this fact even slightly upset the author. Why, it was Rybakov who came up with the catch phrase! And in one of his conversations with the journalist Valery Lebedev, Anatoly Naumovich admitted the fact that he wrote the phrase "no man - no problem" in the novel "Children of the Arbat". First, he tried to question the journalist: where did Stalin say this, in which year, in which of his speeches? No answers to these questions were found.
If a catch phrase has become popular, then it does honor to the author! Later, in 1997, Rybakov confessed in the novel “Memoirs” that he came up with the saying “no man - no problem” on his own. And Anatoly Naumovich did this because he felt his hero like that. He intuitively felt how a leader could build a thought and what kind of turns of speech were characteristic of him. Historically, the writer was not mistaken. The cruel phrase took root and became a kind of symbol of the "Stalinist winter".
The novel's popularity
Roman A. Rybakova "Children of the Arbat" caused a sensation and became very popular. It is the history of this work that answers us the question of who said: "there is no person - there is no problem." And also the novel explains the meaning of this winged expression. He made a lot of noise in the press and turned the minds of his readers upside down. During these years, many historical events were rethought.
The novel tells of the difficult fate of people born and grown up in the 30s. It reveals the whole truth about the Stalinist totalitarian regime. In the work, the author tries to figure out how this terrible machine worked, he shows all this with examples of human destinies. The mechanism for solving political "problems" was launched by the Stalin regime and destroyed people literally, in a physical sense.
