Military folklore. Sayings and proverbs about the war

In World War II, our people went through many trials. These are the cauldrons of the beginning of the war: the Battle of Stalingrad, the Kursk Bulge, the liberation of Crimea and Transcaucasia. The blockade of Leningrad, the need to rebuild the economy during the retreat of 1941, left a serious imprint on our mentality. The eastern front was the place where the German armed forces suffered the greatest losses.

Background of military folklore

Neither during the French campaign, nor in the North African upheavals, nor during the Anglo-German confrontation over the English Channel, nor during the capture of Poland, did the Germans overcome every kilometer with such difficulty as during the battle for Moscow or during the battles for Rzhev. Despite the fact that in 1942 the latest Tiger and Panther tanks began to arrive in the German troops, and later created on their chassis the self-propelled guns Yagdtigr and Yagdpanther, the Soviet armed forces managed to seize the initiative even after the battle near Prokhorovka let her go to the very end of the war.

Under the heel of fascism, Hungary, Romania, the Baltic states, Italy, and part of North Africa remained. It was after the end of World War II that two opposing forces took shape - the NATO bloc and the Eastern bloc. After the division of Berlin into zones of occupation, the USSR began to exert a serious influence on the eastern part of Germany, which led to the fact that the GDR and the FRG separated from each other and for a long time lived in isolation, as two separate countries.

It would have been even harder to survive difficult military days without such an element of Russian folklore as proverbs about the war. Usually they are divided into several types.

Proverbs about the benefits of the world

A soldier desires nothing during the war as much as a speedy advance of peace. This category includes such proverbs about the war:

• If we stand together for peace, there will never be a war.
• To whom the world is completely inexpensive, that is our country and the hell.
• Love for the world, this is the way - this is the grace of God.
• Peace is the virtuous initiative of civilization, and war is degradation.
• Living with everyone in the world, do not forget the fear of war.
• It’s good to talk about the war, but it’s not good to participate in the war.
• The soldier is fighting, the son is grieving.

Proverbs of Divine Destiny

These include proverbs and sayings about the war, such as:

• The battle for the Motherland is a holy cause, go boldly against the enemy.
• Two sides in the field - to whom the Lord will help, he is right.
• What is handed down with the battle is holy.
• The honor of a soldier must be protected sacredly.
• You will not frighten the enemy with prayer.
• For a soldier, the border of the Motherland is holy.
• Save the Lord from war and from a foreign country.

Proverbs about Hitler

Of course, proverbs about the Patriotic War could not fail to affect the leader of the fascist state - Adolf Hitler. And here's what they said about him:

• How many Hitler do not fight - our victory, Russian.
• From the world on a string - Hitler to the rope.
• The farther into the Russian forest, the worse for Hitler and the SS.

Proverbs about weapons

Of course, proverbs about the war could not get past the weapons theme. The following expressions can be attributed to it:

• The Russian machine gun will find itself an enemy everywhere.
• Those who skillfully own their weapons will easily defeat the enemy.
• The enemy is very close - hit quickly with a butt.
• Beat the enemy with a knife, rifle - and hit with the mind, and dexterity.
• The bullet does not make out people, and officials even more so.
• Keep gun powder dry - you'll be healthy and alive.
• Not a bullet, but a man kills.
• A gun and a shovel are the best friends of our soldier.

Proverbs about courage and courage

Courage is a separate issue. Without it, there will be no victorious war, and therefore proverbs and sayings about the war did not bypass this theme either:

• Learn courage from a scout, caution from a sapper.
• It is better to rot in a clean field than in an Indian hem.
• Fight courage loves.
• Without courage and courage you will not take a single fortress.
• Who is brave and resistant, twenty soldiers are standing.
• The battle is red with courage, and the colleague with friendship.
• You can’t drown the enemy with tears.
• For your homeland and your land stand firmly.
• The hero and praise, and glory runs.

Proverbs about war of other subjects

There are expressions that cannot be attributed to any of the above topics. These include the following proverbs about the war:

• What is taken from the battle is holy.
• War is a rotten swamp: it is easy to abyss, but it is difficult to get out.
• A man in battle is worth a visit - the exact price of his life is known.
• War gives scars and wounds.
• From Moscow to the capital of Germany, Berlin, the path is narrow, you can’t stop it.
• To Moscow on black tanks, and from Moscow - Russian sledding.
• War is pleasant to those who did not know it.
• In a war, that army is strong, where the governor has his head.
• Strive not to take over the world, but its knowledge.
• The enemy came to feast, and I had to tear my tears into a fist.
• The sapper is not mistaken, or there is no sapper.
• A fool is a soldier who does not want to become a general.
• A skilled fighter with experience is well done everywhere and the porridge is bursting.
• The Russian soldier does not want to know the obstacles.
• Do not swords of arrows that you cannot repel.
• Anyone who appreciates war will all become enemies over the years.
• Victory is not considered living enemies, but killed.
• War will leave a mark everywhere, on soldiers with scars, on civilians with wrinkles.
• Nothing will be lost in battle: to the brave - glory, to the traitors - hula.
• To achieve high victories is to break the back of the Germans.
• If the time of war comes, the Russian fighter will go one against eight.
• A native eagle and a magpie will beat an eagle.
• War and food need not be joked.
• Kill the enemy do not take care of the boot.
• The enemy is terrified when far away, but even worse when behind.
• To whom the army is the mother, to whom the evil stepmother.
• If the battle, so in battle.
• War is a terrible baker; widows and orphans are quickly obtained from it.

In conclusion, I would like to note that the war is a terrible event, but its course can serve as food for thought to the creators of folklore - proverbs and sayings about the war.