“No man, no problem”Joseph Dzhugashvili is often credited with the quote in the title of this post. This short saying is used to demonstrate the cynicism of the Soviet leader towards people.
And this phrase is used almost more actively than any other attributed to Stalin. It was used by Putin (
https://ria.ru/20081124/155762367.html), the former President of the Czech Republic (
https://aroundprague.cz/news/politika/ zeman-proczitiroval-stalina-est-chelovek-est-problema-net-cheloveka-net-problemyi), a member of parliament (
https://regnum.ru/news/1478569) of the Verkhovna Rada, media outlets such as Radio Liberty (
https://www.svoboda.org/a/24204320.html), and others (
https://www.gazeta.ru/science/2019/09/06_a_12630439.shtml).
“No man, no problem” began to be attributed to Stalin in the late 1980s; there are simply no earlier references to it. In particular, in 1989, at the First Congress of People's Deputies of the USSR, actor Sosa Sarkisyan used it (
https://militera.lib.ru/docs/0/pdf/snd1989-6.pdf), saying that this quote was “Stalin's philosophy.”
But the phrase was first used by writer Anatoly Rybakov in his book Children of the Arbat, published in 1987.
Ten years later, in his memoirs, he admitted (
https://www.sakharov-center.ru/asfcd/auth/?t=page&num=1598%29 that the phrase was made up:
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Maybe I heard it from someone, maybe I came up with it myself. So what? Did Stalin do anything different? Did he persuade his opponents? No, he exterminated them... ‘No man, no problem...’ That was Stalin's principle. I just put it succinctly. That's an artist's prerogative."
There is no other evidence, transcripts, documents, or recollections from people close to Stalin's activities to confirm the quote attributed to him.
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