"Against dogs and gnawing"
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State Duma deputy Vladimir Zhirinovsky is truly considered the king of comical phrases in Russia. He regularly pleases his audience with non-trivial opinions and suggestions. And his “stand-up” about animals at a meeting of the State Council at the end of 2021 simply could not help but enter the top funny phrases of officials.
“Stop advertising – where they hug cats and dogs. All these pets have a huge amount of viruses. People are being mauled by stray dogs. Why, we can’t pass a law to stop people being killed?” – Vladimir Volfovich spoke out.
Kuban "insemination"
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Sometimes officials spontaneously say very funny phrases. This is how the Governor of the Krasnodar Territory, Veniamin Kondratyev, distinguished himself in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic. While lecturing his subordinates about the small number of people sent to observatories upon arrival in the region, he became seriously concerned about the problem of “contamination.”
“I don’t really understand the difference between those who come from Moscow to us just to relax. Here are our people who also went somewhere to rest, where are they going? This won’t work, from the whole train one person is directed only to the observatory. What about everyone else? Who checked them? How many of those infected returned? Nobody knows now, and then they will incriminate others,” Kondratyev said.
Russian Minister of Health about planned mortality:
Experts name several reasons why officials and deputies so often end up in scandals due to their rash statements. One of them is isolation from the people. According to experts, some officials generally perceive the people as a mass, and not as living people who have feelings, needs, and rights. Another version is a banal lack of knowledge: people who came to power were not always well educated and intellectually developed, so such incidents in speech are natural.
What do you think, dear readers?
Reason to have children
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On the eve of the 2021 FIFA World Cup, Russian deputies could not decide what Russian women should do during the influx of tourists, whether to give birth or not to give birth. On the one hand, the situation is quite comical, on the other, the question of the future of the country was being decided.
State Duma deputy Tamara Pletneva spoke out against it. She addressed the residents of the country and urged them not to enter into relationships with foreigners who came to the championship.
It’s good if it’s another race, but if it’s another race, then not at all. We must give birth to our own children. Tatyana Pletneva
State Duma deputy
However, State Duma deputy Mikhail Degtyarev did not agree with her, who even came up with an excellent reason for conceiving a child from a foreign tourist.
“The more love stories we have related to the World Cup, the more people from different countries fall in love, the more children are born, the better. Because these children will then, many years later, remember that their parents’ love story began in Russia at the World Cup. God grant that there be more such love stories, children, mixed unions,” the deputy said.
“Borzota.” The most boorish statements of Russian officials
November 6, 2021, 12:36 - Public news service - OSN Governor of the Sverdlovsk region Evgeny Kuyvashev signed an order to remove Olga Glatskikh, director of the youth policy department of the Sverdlovsk region, from office while her words about youth policy are being checked.
On Monday, at a meeting with the youth of Kirovgrad, an official said that “the state, in principle, does not owe you anything.” “Your parents owe you. Because they gave birth to you. The state did not ask them to give birth to you,” she added.
The news agency “Public News Service” has compiled a selection of the most odious statements by Russian officials in recent years.
“Where does such a greyhound come from?”
Last July, during a meeting with the governor of the Sverdlovsk region, Russian President Vladimir Putin was outraged by the rudeness of the director of the Nizhny Tagil Thermal Insulation Products Plant. Employees of the enterprise complained not only about regular delays and non-payment of wages, but also about humiliating treatment from management.
The owner of the plant allegedly told the workers: until the president personally contacts me, you will not get anything.
“First of all, we need to understand, if this is so, then where does such rudeness come from, such rudeness towards people,” the president commented and promised that the Prosecutor General’s Office would look into the case.
“I’ll live for a month, and then I’ll go look for work.”
Natalya Sokolova, who previously served as Minister of Labor, Employment and Migration of the Saratov Region, was fired after saying that a living wage of 3,500 rubles was enough to satisfy “minimal physiological needs.”
“In every season there are products that become cheaper and more expensive. And pasta always costs the same. Are you a believer? And that is 40 days of fasting, and everyone only becomes healthier,” she turned to one of the deputies who entered into a controversy with the official. He claimed that such a “diet” would ultimately land him in a hospital bed.
“This is a living wage. That is, this is physiologically the minimum acceptable. I'll live with you for a month. And then I’ll go look for a job,” Sokolova explained.
"Why? Because because"
In October 2021, Governor of the Kaliningrad Region Anton Alikhanov, commenting to journalists on the draft regional budget for 2018, rudely answered the question whether the regional government would return compensation for the kindergarten.
- No.
- Why?
- Because because.
- This is a serious question!
“This is a serious answer.”
True, later he nevertheless clarified his position on this issue. Nevertheless, Alikhanov’s “head of cabbage” still went viral on the Internet as one of the most striking examples of bureaucratic rudeness.
"No money? Eat less”
In 2015, deputy of the Legislative Assembly of the Sverdlovsk Region Ilya Gaffner, commenting on the increase in retail prices for food by 25% over the year, did not notice anything wrong with it.
“If you don’t have enough money, you need to remember that we are all Russians, Russian people, we have gone through both hunger and cold. You just need to think about your own health and eat less, for example,” Gaffner said.
A year later, the court declared him bankrupt. This should not be a problem for the MP. He knows what to do in such cases.
“Close everything and leave. And dig out the road"
In 2015, the acting Head of Mari El, Leonid Markelov, complained that the residents of one of the villages did not receive him well enough and threatened to dig up all the roads in the island, said the acting Head of Mari El.
The roads, however, were never excavated, but the quote spread across the media.
“Write to the Pope and drink”
Two weeks ago, residents of the Astrakhan region received a strange letter from the regional department for major repairs in response to an appeal. Officials later cited that the department's email had been hacked.
Citizens asked to repair rural roads and threatened to complain to President Vladimir Putin otherwise.
“Yes, even to the Pope. First, the director has changed. Secondly, it is not our responsibility to gather villagers. Good luck,” the first letter said.
“Guys, you better drink. If you have nothing to do. As others in your village do,” the previous message was supplemented.
Why are officials rude to the people?
Every day, Russians encounter rudeness at different levels: in stores, in transport, in government agencies. Experts explain the manifestation of rudeness from officials by a feeling of impunity and a lack of arguments, and sometimes even basic vocabulary. Nevertheless, recently, officials are increasingly losing their positions for displaying rudeness, however, as practice shows, this does not become a lesson for everyone.
