What did he say German Oskarovich? And he said this: “We lost the competition and ended up in the camp of countries that are losing” (details about the Gaidar Forum). V State Duma this statement was considered scandalous and demanded that the head of Sberbank be dismissed. Meanwhile, besides the sharpness of the wording, there is nothing new in the words of G. Gref. Judgments that the country is losing the pace of development, losing in competition and sinking to the level of a regional power, were heard earlier from the lips of respected economists and politicians. Why were the words of G. Gref perceived so painfully? There are several reasons.
First, they were spoken at a forum whose opinions are taken very seriously not only here, but also in the West. Secondly, the words of G. Gref sounded like a serious contrast (almost a challenge) to the judgments that he expressed at the same forum head of government D. Medvedev. And this is already a "scandal in a noble family." And finally, thirdly, G. Gref sharpened the diagnosis of the disease at the very moment when, according to all the canons of politics, it should have been softened. Russia is entering the electoral period. Parliamentary elections are coming in 2016, and in 2018 presidential elections. It would seem that it's time to "paint oil paintings", and not chop granite with a chisel.
So who is German Oskarovich? Russian patriot? Or five minutes to the "fifth column"?
Photo: AiF / Andrey Dorofeev
Russian Cossack
I think that without understanding the concept of "Russian patriotism" it is difficult to answer this question. Especially today, when the demonstration of ostentatious patriotism has become almost a national game and sometimes takes on very dubious forms. In some places (so far, fortunately, in the dark corners of Russia, namely in Komi), officials, in an effort to please the authorities, have already tried to burn books that, in their opinion, “form a distorted perception of history among the youth and popularize alien Russian installation ideology. In Omsk, local Cossack women, who declared themselves patriots, staged an attraction with archery at stands with images Obama and Poroshenko. And what type of patriotism can be attributed to the already familiar advertising inscriptions on our taxis and private cars “Forward, to Berlin!”, “The armor is strong and our tanks are fast”? V Lately such posters began to appear on government buses and trolleybuses. I wonder how such patriotic impulses are assessed by German tourists coming to Moscow?
There are no words: Russians for the most part are committed to a sense of patriotism, and they do not need intrusive prompts. But the problem is that people do not always understand what it is - real, civilized patriotism. Patriotic feelings are sometimes manifested in a very extravagant form. Especially in the outback, where the level of political culture (and just culture) is not too high. Indeed, for many, to be a patriot means to exalt everything that is yours and spit on everything that is not yours. Especially American. The regional press is full of descriptions of the most ridiculous situations. In the village of Brekhovskaya, Yaroslavl Region, one of the residents (drinking, of course) beat his neighbor to death, suspecting him of working for American intelligence.
Edges of patriotism
Many Russians do not realize that patriotism is real only when it manifests itself not in the form of blasphemy against "enemies of the people", but in a creative, labor form. Patriotism is strengthened not when poems are written about it or lectures are given “on the national pride of the Great Russians”, but when people from their windows see how their life improves, the life of their streets, how the country grows stronger, how new factories open, good roads and houses are built. When the population grows, and new places appear in kindergartens and schools.
Today, arguing about patriotism in the USSR and the Russian Federation, they often say that Soviet patriotism was artificially planted by Stalin's propaganda. Yes, the propaganda pressure was really serious. The country woke up with the anthem, went to bed with “Wide is my native country”, and in between there were reports of success. But Stalin, being a pragmatist, he understood that one cannot raise people's enthusiasm with parades and reports on the successes of the people. After all, the victorious soldiers who returned from Europe to Russia heard not only songs. They saw devastated cities and villages, deserted fields, destroyed factories, thousands of orphans, beggars and inconsolable widow soldiers. And, probably, it is no coincidence that after holding a grandiose Victory Parade on Red Square in 1945, Stalin canceled all the parades the very next year. They were renewed only 20 years later. It was a strict message to the bureaucracy, the military, and the people: stop marching, it's time to build, it's time to plow. Indeed, the post-war stage of the accelerated restoration of the national economy has become a real driver of the country's development and popular enthusiasm.
Unfortunately, pathetic interpretations of patriotism are, in essence, historical in nature. The practice of glossing over problems and sticking out “unprecedented successes” has reached a special flourishing in Russia under Nicholas I. Textbook is the statement of the main Nikolaev "silovik" Count Benckendorff: “Russia's past is amazing, its present is more than magnificent; as for the future, it is higher than anything that the wildest imagination can draw. Alas, the unrestrained protective interpretation of the state of the country led to disaster. The development of Russia was so slowed down that the army was unsuitable for modern warfare. Russia was waiting for defeat in the Crimean campaign. The tsar, who considered himself a patriot and, in fact, was such, could not bear the defeat. His death (from a cold) was sudden. According to some testimonies, Nicholas I committed suicide.
Unfortunately, the traditions of pathos patriotism do not die. Substituting business with bragging remains the bureaucracy's favorite game and career driver. Whoever shouts “Hurrah!” louder is already a patriot even in a new position. Meanwhile, a spoonful of bitter tar in a barrel of sweet oil would be very useful. I would erect a monument to German Gref ...
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"A fly in the ointment in a barrel of honey" in books
Fly in the ointment and SOS-reparation
From the book Secrets of Human Heredity author Afonkin Sergey YurievichA fly in the ointment and SOS-reparation Now it's time to add tar to the drawn picture of a barrel of honey. Everything would be fine if any point mutations could be cut out and eliminated as accurately as it happens with thymine dimers. Unfortunately, sometimes the cell is not in
CHAPTER 2
From the book Not Just Bugs author Kozlov Mikhail AlekseevichCHAPTER 2 FLYING IN THE OIRE “Yes, this is not the kind of thing that everyone knows what it smells like!.. A heartbreaking sight. That's what it's called - a heartbreaking sight." A. Milne. Winnie the Pooh and
A spoon of tar
From the book Oil. People who changed the world author author unknownA fly in the ointment By the mid-1950s, Onassis's fleet consisted of more than 70 tankers and large bulk carriers. Aristotle became the first shipowner in the world to start building supertankers - ocean-going oil tankers with a displacement of more than 320,000 metric tons.
Chapter 9 A fly in the ointment in a barrel of jam, or How to ruin everything
From the book Personal Budget. Money under control author Makarov Sergey VladimirovichChapter 9 A fly in the ointment in a barrel of jam, or Like everyone else
Task for the summer holidays "A fly in the ointment in a barrel of honey"
From the book All best practices parenting in one book: Russian, Japanese, French, Jewish, Montessori and others author Team of authorsTask for summer holidays"A fly in the ointment in a barrel of honey" French schoolchildren have the longest holidays among all Western students. A similar organization school life developed back in those days when in September parents still needed the help of children on
... And a fly in the ointment
From the book Treasures Washed in Blood: About Treasures Found and Not Found author Demkin Sergey Ivanovich... And a fly in the ointment The whole world knows the story of how a seven-year-old German boy, the son of a village pastor from the land of Mecklenburg, read in Jaeger's book " The World History for children" pages dedicated to the Trojan War, exclaimed: - When I grow up, I will unearth
A spoon of tar
From the book At the fishing fire of the authorFly in the ointment We did not survive the third day of paradise. We decided: in the morning we will leave a little near Khudzhirt - and on the way! We drive up to the place where Tumurbat caught his ten-kilogram the day before yesterday. First throw - yes! Hook! Magnificent bait, on which I caught four yesterday
A spoon of tar
From the book What is the name of your god? Great scams of the 20th century [magazine version] authorA spoon of tar
From the book Great Scams of the 20th Century. Volume 1 author Golubitsky Sergey MikhailovichA fly in the ointment A gullible reader is probably rubbing his hands: “These are some cunning swindlers, these Lats!” I'm afraid, however, that not everything in the history of Defeo and their home is so unequivocal. Rather, even the opposite. If George and Cathy Lutz all figured out why none of the neighbors heard the gunshots
A spoon of honey and a barrel of tar
From the book Computerra Magazine No. 30 dated August 23, 2005 author Computerra magazineA spoon of honey and a barrel of tar This is how you can briefly characterize the harvest of news collected by Google at the end of the summer. This time, the usual reports about labor achievements in her luggage are side by side with a series of lost court cases, as well as a scandal,
A spoon of tar
From the book Amino acids - construction material life author Ostapenko LeonidFly in the ointment It is impossible that all the time everything was very good. That doesn't happen in life. This does not happen in the world of biochemistry, especially if we are talking about experiments. As we already know, nervous relaxation translates into premature fatigue during training, and one of
A spoonful of honey in a powder keg
From the book I would be happy if it were not for... Getting rid of any kind of addiction author Freidman OlegA spoonful of honey in a powder keg A person's constant suppression of his feelings entails uncontrollable emotional outbursts. People, especially those living in the same family, often have claims against each other. But we can't afford to show at least once in a while
Postpartum depression is a fly in the ointment
From the book Antistress for future parents author Tsarenko NataliaPostpartum depression - a fly in the ointment in a barrel of honey Sometimes the situation develops in a paradoxical way: a woman becomes the mother of a wonderful baby, childbirth goes on even if not ideally, then at least without adventures and complications, the father of the child is happy and proud, the family
A spoon of tar
From the book How to fly to Europe for 50 euros [Ready-made solutions for budget travelers] author Borodin AndreyA fly in the ointment To complete the picture, I would like to talk about the negative aspects that customers of low-cost airlines may encounter. I have already touched on some of them above. The weight and size restrictions mentioned will most likely have
A spoon of tar
From the book Alien Lessons - 2003 author Golubitsky Sergey MikhailovichA fly in the ointment A gullible reader is probably rubbing his hands: “These are some cunning swindlers, these Lats!” I'm afraid, however, that not everything in the history of Defeo and their home is so unequivocal. Rather, even the opposite. If George and Cathy Lutz all figured out why none of the neighbors heard the gunshots
measure of tar in a barrel of honey
Alternative descriptionsCutlery
dining accessories
Russian percussion musical instrument
. "Dry ... mouth tearing" (last)
. "Bread" cutlery
. "Chopper" Antoshka
The main "working" tool of the eater
Road to dinner
Antoshka cooked her for dinner in a song
G. tool for slurping, for eating liquids; loafer, shevyrka, eater. Draft spoon, ladle. A kind of iron ladle with which copper is poured, with a small casting; the same, flatter ladle, with which they take out the incandescent cores, or bayonets, ingots from the molds; wide blade drill; wide nozzle of an earthen drill; lower end of the sternum, spoon, dimple under the sternum. A wooden spoon (the main craft of the Lower Guberniya of the Sem. Uyezd) is chopped off from a baklush with an axe, embossed with an adze, sharpened with a knife and cut with a curved cutter, and the stalk and forging on it are sharpened with a saw, by hand. Spoon happens: mezheumok, simple Russian, wide; butyrka, burlatskaya, the same, but thicker and rougher; barefoot, longish, blunt-nosed; semi-flat, rounder than that; nosy, sharp-nosed; fine, generally fine, clean finish. White, i.e. unpainted, comes first hand
Measure of tar
musical instrument for dinner
Tool of one when seven with a bipod
An item of household utensils, in rituals - a symbol of a family member, living or dead
An item that rises in price for lunch
Appliance - cabbage soup slurp
Glutton's working tool
Russian folk musical instrument
Russian percussion musical instrument
Canteen "colleague" knife and fork
Cutlery
Soup scoop
What Antoshka cooked for dinner
Percussion instrument of folk orchestra
The closer to dinner, the more expensive it is.
Scoop for Antoshka
scoop
I feed everyone willingly, but I myself am mouthless (mystery)
Detail of a drilling device designed to extract liquid, semi-liquid and loose rock from a well
By lunchtime it rises in price
One of the oldest cutlery
She's on her way to dinner
An object for scooping up liquid crumbly food
Household item, one of the handicraft products
Appliance for food
sling-spoon
V Ancient Greece even in rich houses, dried crusts of bread were served for dinner, and what do we use instead of them
Barge haulers called her "butyzka" and wore their hats on their foreheads behind a ribbon, like a cockade
eater tool
. “I don’t eat myself, but I feed people” (riddle)
The most important cutlery
Without her, eating soup would be very difficult.
A musical instrument that can be used to sip cabbage soup
Intermediary between soup and eater
Minimum required amount honey to spoil one barrel of honey
One with a bipod, and seven with it
Cutlery at the soldier's top
Cutlery for seven
A dose of tar, lethal for a barrel
Bouillon scoop
Soup drinker
. "scoop", dear to dinner
. scoop for shoes
Fine!
The main "working" tool of the eater
In ancient Greece, even in rich houses, dried crusts of bread were served for dinner, but what do we use instead of them?
Barge haulers called her "butyzka" and wore hats on their foreheads behind a ribbon, like a cockade
. “I don’t eat myself, but I feed people” (riddle)
. "dry ... mouth tearing" (last)
Bread Cutlery
. "scoop", dear to dinner
. Antoshka's "scoop"
Canteen "colleague" knife and fork
Appliance - cabbage soup slurp
. scoop for shoes
On the first of September, information about the opening caught my eye new school built with the personal money of German Gref, the first thought ... we have patrons of the level of Gavrila Gavrilovich Solodovnikov who donated to charity more than 20 million rubles (in today's money ... about 10 billion dollars) out of 22 earned.
With his own money, Gavrila Gavrilovich built a concert hall with a theater stage on Bolshaya Dmitrovka, where ballets and extravaganzas could be staged (today the Operetta Theater is located in this room). Thanks to the philanthropist, the Clinic for Skin and Venereal Diseases appeared in the city, equipped with all the most interesting. Today, the Moscow Medical Academy named after I.M. Sechenov is located in its premises. A third of the capital, out of 20 million, went to equip zemstvo women's schools in a number of provinces, another third - to create vocational schools and a shelter for homeless children in the Serpukhov district, and the rest - to build houses with cheap apartments for poor and lonely people. There were hundreds of patrons like Solodovnikov in pre-revolutionary Russia;
With their donations, a lot was created and built for the common people, including schools ...
Built his own school and German Gref.
The school is unique... its project won a prize international competition Re-thinking the future, you can see it in the video and at the first moment I wanted to rejoice ... rich people appeared in the country ready to donate millions of dollars to charity ...
The error came...
found a fly in the ointment.
The school turned out to be not for ordinary children living in the neighborhood, but for very wealthy parents who can afford to pay 80 thousand rubles a month for a child's education and
66 thousand for the child's stay in kindergarten. It turns out that this is ... not an ordinary charity, but a business project of a private school headed by the wife of German Oskarovich.
According to the Hamburg account ... it's okay, another private school has appeared, there are already hundreds of such schools across the country and you could put up a video with the heading "Gref opened a private school" and forget about this business project of his ... if not for one but !
Found a second ... fly in the ointment
PEI "Khoroshevskaya School" is provided with a subsidy from the budget of the city of Moscow in order to reimburse the costs in connection with the provision of preschool education to citizens of Moscow and the Moscow region.
Rich kids "cry too", 66 thousand a month is not enough... without a government subsidy, their childhood would not be as fun and carefree... as it is today... with budget funding.
Our new patrons have not grown up to Solodovnikov and Morozov ... all of them are drawn into business and into the state pocket (budget), but I really want to see the headline - "German Gref built a unique school for his own money and handed it over to the city" ...
Dreams Dreams...
) - about a small, insignificant addition that spoils the big and the good (Big Dictionary of Russian Sayings, V. M. Mokienko, T. G. Nikitina, 2007)
Spoon of tar in a barrel of honey- a saying about something small that can poison, spoil a big, good thing. ( Dictionary Russian language (1992), N. Yu. Shvedova, "Tar")
Tar- a resinous and burnt liquid, expelled from birch bark by fire ( (1863-1866), to the word "tar").
If you add just a spoonful of tar to a barrel of honey, you can spoil the taste of the entire barrel of honey. Hence the proverb.
This Russian proverb is indicated in the book "" (1853):
A barrel of honey, a fly in the ointment - will ruin everything (section - "")
A spoonful of honey, a barrel of tar (i.e. interleaved)(chapter - " ")
It should be noted that in Russia tar was a symbol of dirt, impurity. For example, in Russia, right up to the revolution of 1917, neighbors smeared with tar the gates (door, porch) of the house where the girl who had sexual intercourse before marriage lived (see)
Examples
(1948 - 2017)
"Vodka is a non-Russian product!" (2016):
"But suddenly at the end, unexpectedly, first of all, for me, it turned out that the authors and editors of the program prepared a barrel of tar on a spoonful of honey. They tried to prove very convincingly that the Slavs, despite their much deeper past than is commonly believed, still have nothing of their own: the Kremlin was built by the Italians, vodka was brought in, nesting dolls - from the Japanese, dumplings - from the Chinese ... and so on and so forth. …"
(1925 - 1991), (1933 - 2012)
"Beetle in the anthill" (1979):
"Everything seems to be going the way it should go, and at the same time, some little thing, some real trifle spoils the whole picture. Some fly in the ointment…"
(1860 - 1904)
"The review is excellent, but Mr. Burenin should not pour a barrel of tar into a spoon of honey, i.e., while praising me, laugh at the dead Nadson."
Karatygin P.P.
"Temporary Workers and Favorites of the 16th, 17th and 18th Centuries", Book One, 1870:
"The truths are undoubted; but does not the scent of a rose reward the scratches caused by its thorns, and does not a fly in the ointment in a barrel of honey destroy all its sweetness?"
(1801 - 1872)
"Petersburg janitor" - about the janitor Grigory:
"... put barrel of tar, another honey- according to the proverb, they live together, a dozen belt whips, hewn arcs, shafts, bast shoes, gingerbread, ribbons and several bundles of lamb. That's all supplies and all trade; "
