Who and why decided to "bomb Voronezh." We recall the history of the meme

Today, against the backdrop of the rebellion of Evgeny Prigozhin and PMC Wagner, whose mercenaries reached the Wornezh and went towards Moscow, in the networks they again remembered the famous meme describing the relationship of domestic and foreign policy of modern Russia. Over the past day, the number of requests to “bomb Voronezh” has grown redly, according to the statistics of the Google Trends service. “Bombing Voronezh” is an analogue of the saying: I will get my eyes, if only the mother -in -law had a one -eyed son -in -law. Demotivators walk on social networks, and media use Voronezh in the headlines of articles. We tell the story of this meme.

The third letter of the alphabet

In the memory of Russians, Voronezh, like many other cities, has already experienced bombing. In July 1942, German troops captured the right bank of the Voronezh River. A massive air bombing destroyed most of the city. By the time the city was liberated in January 1943, 92% of all residential buildings were destroyed. After the war, the city was rebuilt again.

In the 1990s, new events of the same order joined this memory. In July 1996, a detonator of an explosive device left in the waiting room worked . By a happy chance, no one was injured, although the charge was equivalent to 20 kg of TNT. The responsibility was taken by the Chechen action movie Salman Raduev. Later, during the court in 2001, answering the question of the state prosecutor, he called his statement to PR.

"Especially manic Raduev ... eager to blow up the railway station in Voronezh.

“Share, Raduev,” the prosecutor Ustinov was interested, “I am purely interesting to me: that you clung to Voronezh?” In those years, the residents of the city were ate validol in packs because of you!

- Well, just in alphabet, the letter "in" close to the beginning ... "

A deputy who was not

The most common version of the origin of the meme about bombing refers to a certain Voronezh deputy. Allegedly, after the war with Georgia in 2008, the authorities of the Russian Federation allocated a lot of money to restore South Ossetia. In the city council of Voronezh, some deputy said that "the amount allocated to the South Service forces is three times more than the whole Voronezh region receives in three years. Bake better Voronezh, we will build normal roads."

However, in Voronezh itself, no one remembers such a case, there are no reliable links to the quote, and the name of the deputy in the Internet versions of the joke has never been named.

The meme received a wide circulation on the network in early 2013, when the Law of the Plotsy (“The Law of Dima Yakovlev”) was discussed: in response to the US sanctions against officials from the “Magnitsky” list, Russian deputies banned the adoption of orphans. Hundreds of seriously ill children in orphanages were left without parents, without modern medical care.

The Voronezhs themselves can only accept the baton of black humor: “The head of the Omsk region said that investors are afraid to invest in the region in which there is a meme“ do not try to leave Omsk. ”About our region is the Mem“ Break Voronezh ”, and it seems that I have bad news about investors,” one of the users of social networks joked.

In addition to the proximity of the first letter, the name of the alphabet is considered the cause of stability of the meme to a certain “Russianness” of Voronezh and the sonority of its name. Although he is far from an example of the old Russian city, his name is ancient, not deciphered, but therefore mysterious and attractive.

Regardless of origin, the deputy was or was not, the meme turned out to be tenacious and incorporated a lot of ideas about the average provincial city with its aggression and defenselessness at the same time.

An old (pre -war) joke instead of a postcryptum.

Lavrov calls Shoigu and says:

-Listen, Kuzhuhetovich, do not hit New York, my daughter lives there.

Shoigu, indignantly:

- Crap! Peskov asked for London and Paris not to beat, Medvedev - Berlin, Mizulin in Belgium, Zhirinovsky in Switzerland ... Others called, the list is large. Lavrov, where to beat then in case of something?

- Mmm, well, fucking in Voronezh, there are definitely no ours there.