Dictatorship of the Somoza family. This is a son of a bitch, but this is our son of a bitch Losing allies and strengthening enemies
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Anastasio Somoza Garcia(Spanish) Anastasio Somoza Garcia ; February 1 - September 29) - Nicaraguan military and statesman, de facto head of Nicaragua from 1936 to 1956.
As the head of the National Guard, he organized the assassination attempt on the revolutionary Augusto Sandino, who led the fight against the American occupation forces in 1927-1933.
On September 21, 1956, the poet Rigoberto Lopez Perez attempted to assassinate Somoza, wounding him in the chest with a pistol shot. Lopez was shot by security on the spot, and Somoza died 8 days later in an American hospital in Panama, after which his son Luis Somoza Debayle became the head of Nicaragua. 
Somoza regime
Under Somoza, a strict authoritarian regime was established in Nicaragua. The Guard became the arbiter of destinies in Nicaragua [ style] . She controlled the trade in weapons, alcoholic beverages, drugs, and medicines in the country. Organized prostitution, gambling houses, radio and television, tax collection and rural justice were also under her jurisdiction. Anastasio Somoza himself was considered already in the mid-1940s one of the richest people in all of Mesoamerica. He was an extreme anti-communist (in particular, surrealism was banned in any form as “communist art”), patronized fascist and Nazi organizations, and showed open sympathy for Hitler before the start of World War II. However, on December 8, 1941 he declared war on Germany.
"Our son of a bitch"
Despite his authoritarianism, the anti-communist Somoza enjoyed political support from the United States. Franklin Roosevelt is credited with saying in 1939: “Somoza may be a son of a bitch, but he’s our son of a bitch.” As historian David Schmitz points out, a study of the archives of Franklin Roosevelt's presidential library found no evidence to support this statement. The phrase first appeared in the November 15, 1948 issue of Time magazine; On March 17, 1960, it was mentioned in the CBS broadcast Trujillo: Portrait of a Dictator as being said in reference to Rafael Trujillo of the Dominican Republic. Thus, the authorship and object of this statement remain doubtful.
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Prince Andrei looked at Timokhin, who looked at his commander in fear and bewilderment. In contrast to his previous restrained silence, Prince Andrei now seemed agitated. He apparently could not resist expressing those thoughts that unexpectedly came to him.– The battle will be won by the one who is determined to win it. Why did we lose the battle at Austerlitz? Our loss was almost equal to that of the French, but we told ourselves very early that we had lost the battle - and we lost. And we said this because we had no need to fight there: we wanted to leave the battlefield as quickly as possible. “If you lose, then run away!” - we ran. If we hadn’t said this until the evening, God knows what would have happened. And tomorrow we won’t say this. You say: our position, the left flank is weak, the right flank is stretched,” he continued, “all this is nonsense, there is none of this.” What do we have in store for tomorrow? A hundred million of the most varied contingencies that will be decided instantly by the fact that they or ours ran or will run, that they will kill this one, they will kill the other; and what is being done now is all fun. The fact is that those with whom you traveled in position not only do not contribute to the general course of affairs, but interfere with it. They are busy only with their own small interests.
- At such a moment? - Pierre said reproachfully.
“At such a moment,” repeated Prince Andrei, “for them it is only such a moment in which they can dig under the enemy and get an extra cross or ribbon.” For me, for tomorrow this is this: a hundred thousand Russian and a hundred thousand French troops came together to fight, and the fact is that these two hundred thousand are fighting, and whoever fights angrier and feels less sorry for himself will win. And if you want, I’ll tell you that, no matter what it is, no matter what is confused up there, we will win the battle tomorrow. Tomorrow, no matter what, we will win the battle!
“Here, your Excellency, the truth, the true truth,” said Timokhin. - Why feel sorry for yourself now! The soldiers in my battalion, would you believe it, didn’t drink vodka: it’s not such a day, they say. - Everyone was silent.
The officers stood up. Prince Andrei went out with them outside the barn, giving the last orders to the adjutant. When the officers left, Pierre approached Prince Andrei and was just about to start a conversation when the hooves of three horses clattered along the road not far from the barn, and, looking in this direction, Prince Andrei recognized Wolzogen and Clausewitz, accompanied by a Cossack. They drove close, continuing to talk, and Pierre and Andrey involuntarily heard the following phrases:
– Der Krieg muss im Raum verlegt werden. Der Ansicht kann ich nicht genug Preis geben, [War must be transferred to space. I cannot praise this view enough (German)] - said one.
“O ja,” said another voice, “da der Zweck ist nur den Feind zu schwachen, so kann man gewiss nicht den Verlust der Privatpersonen in Achtung nehmen.” [Oh yes, since the goal is to weaken the enemy, the losses of private individuals cannot be taken into account]
“O ja, [Oh yes (German)],” confirmed the first voice.
“Yes, im Raum verlegen, [transfer into space (German)],” Prince Andrei repeated, snorting angrily through his nose, when they passed. – Im Raum then [In space (German)] I still have a father, a son, and a sister in Bald Mountains. He doesn't care. This is what I told you - these German gentlemen will not win the battle tomorrow, but will only spoil how much their strength will be, because in his German head there are only reasonings that are not worth a damn, and in his heart there is nothing that is only and what is needed for tomorrow is what is in Timokhin. They gave all of Europe to him and came to teach us - glorious teachers! – his voice squealed again.
– So you think that tomorrow’s battle will be won? - said Pierre.
“Yes, yes,” said Prince Andrei absently. “One thing I would do if I had power,” he began again, “I would not take prisoners.” What are prisoners? This is chivalry. The French have ruined my house and are going to ruin Moscow, and they have insulted and insulted me every second. They are my enemies, they are all criminals, according to my standards. And Timokhin and the entire army think the same. We must execute them. If they are my enemies, then they cannot be friends, no matter how they talk in Tilsit.
“Yes, yes,” said Pierre, looking at Prince Andrei with sparkling eyes, “I completely, completely agree with you!”
The question that had been troubling Pierre since Mozhaisk Mountain all that day now seemed to him completely clear and completely resolved. He now understood the whole meaning and significance of this war and the upcoming battle. Everything he saw that day, all the significant, stern expressions on faces that he glimpsed, were illuminated for him with a new light. He understood that hidden (latente), as they say in physics, warmth of patriotism, which was in all those people whom he saw, and which explained to him why all these people were calmly and seemingly frivolously preparing for death.
Our son of a bitch
Our son of a bitch
To begin with, let me give you an anecdote that has recently been circulating on the Internet:
“- Somoza, of course, is a son of a bitch, but whose son of a bitch? - said President Nixon. - Our son of a bitch!..
30 years have passed.
“I looked into the eyes of my friend Vladimir,” said President Bush, “and I saw in them a democrat, a true democrat in the spirit of George Washington and the Founding Fathers.”
“Political correctness is a great thing,” thought Kissinger, who wrote both speeches.”
Of course, Kissinger did not write speeches for Bush Jr., nor, indeed, for Nixon. And Nixon didn't say anything like that. It is sometimes claimed that US Secretary of State Cordell Hull (in reference to the dictator of the Dominican Republic Rafael Trujillo) or Secretary of State Dean Acheson (in reference to the leader of communist Yugoslavia Josip Broz Tito) was the first to speak about “our son of a bitch”. There are other versions. But it is still generally believed that Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the first to say this phrase, and it referred to the President of Nicaragua, Anastasio Somoza Sr.
On May 5, 1939, Somoza and his wife got off the train at Union Station, a train station in Washington. He was met by Roosevelt and his wife, the almost full Cabinet of Ministers and the leaders of Congress. Along the entire route of the motorcade there were troops dressed in full dress uniform and a lot of military equipment, including thirty tanks. A month later, the English King George VI and Queen Elizabeth were greeted in the same way, and no one had been greeted like this in Washington before. At the White House, Somoza presented Roosevelt with a complete collection of Nicaraguan stamps and proposed digging a new inter-oceanic canal through Nicaragua, for the sake of greater security for the continent.
Three days later, Somoza addressed Congress. Congressmen were less friendly, and Republican Hon Schafer even called the guest of honor a “South American dictator.” It was rumored that on the eve of the visit, Roosevelt's adviser Sumner Wells presented the president with a report in which Somoza was portrayed in an extremely unsavory manner. After carefully reading the report, Roosevelt noted: “AS A NICARAGUAAN WOULD SAY, HE IS A SON OF A BITCH, BUT OURS.”
But who reported these words and when? They were reported by Time Weekly in an unsigned article about Somoza, “I Am a Champion,” published in November 1948, ten years after Somoza’s visit and four years after the death of F.D. Roosevelt. To this day, no evidence has been found that he actually said this.
But they discovered that this is exactly what they said about him. F.D.R. was nominated for president in July 1932 at the Chicago Democratic Convention. His candidacy passed with a significant majority, but not all party bosses were happy with it. One of Roosevelt's most persistent opponents, General Hugh Johnson, was asked how he viewed the results of the vote. Instead of answering, the general told an “old joke” about the provincial Democratic convention. When the delegates elected a dubious candidate, one of the participants exclaimed in their hearts: “Damn everything! It was impossible to allow such a scoundrel to be elected!” The other paused, sighed and replied: “After all, he’s not so bad: after all, he’s our scoundrel.”
The “old joke” had really grown a beard by that time: it appeared in print in 1868 and since then, with various variations, has been walking through the pages of American newspapers. He was often associated with the name of Thaddeus Stevens (1792-1868), an ally of Lincoln; During the Civil War, he was the leader of the left wing of the Republicans. It was said that once, when choosing a person for a position, Stevens asked his colleagues which of the two applicants was better. “Both are big rascals,” they answered him. “YES, BUT WHICH ONE OF THEM IS OUR SLAYER?” — Stevens clarified his question.
I foresee another question: what and when did Bush Jr. say about V.V.P.’s eyes? At a joint press conference with him in Ljubljana, Slovenia, on January 16, 2001, Bush said: “I looked this man in the eye. I think this is a very straightforward and trustworthy person. (...) I understood his soul, the soul of a man devoted to his country and the interests of his country.”
But phrases from jokes much more often end up in history.
Konstantin Dushenko.
Phrase he may be a son of a bitch, but he's our son of a bitch allegedly said by Franklin Delano Roosevelt about the Nicaraguan dictator Somoza (the elder) before the latter's visit to Washington in 1939.
Safir's Political Dictionary(Oxford University Press, 2008, p.676) states that this statement was first attributed to Roosevelt in Time magazine in 1948, allegedly from Welles (who was Deputy Secretary of State in 1939), in the form " As Nicaraguan might say, he"s a sonofabitch but he"s ours". Indeed, this story is in the issue of Time dated November 15, 1948. However, Time magazine does not provide any sources, so Safir classifies the phrase as apocryphal.
What is more interesting is that in some later editions this apocrypha appears in the form of a dialogue between Roosevelt and his Secretary of State Cordell Hull, with Hull speaking the main words. Here's a typical example:
President Franklin Roosevelt reportedly had questioned Secretary of State Cordell Hull, "Isn't that man supposed to be a son of a bitch?" The secretary reportedly replied, "He sure is but he is our son of a bitch"This is “more interesting” in light of recent research.(Robert Sheina, Latin America's Wars, Brassey's 2003, p.184)
Andrew Crawley, author of Somoza and Roosevelt (Oxford University Press, 2007), found this story in a book published in 1934, five years before the Nicaraguan dictator's visit to Washington. The characters there are completely different:
After the 1932 Chicago Convention, General Hugh Johnson ... was asked what he thought of his nomination. Johnson replied by recalling a story of a country convention of Democrats in which the wrong man had been chosen. Driving home from the meeting, two politicians were comparing notes. Both had opposed the succesfull candidate. One said to the other, "Damn it all! ... he is son of a bitch!" the other man sighed and said nothing for a long time. Then he cheered up, "After all", he observed, "... he"s our son of a bitch"Crawley believes that the spreader of the legend attributing these words to Roosevelt is... Somoza himself, who loved to boast about his “special” relationship with the American president.John F. Carter The New Dealers: By the Unofficial Observers(Simon & Shuster, 1934)
In any case, I believe that here we are dealing with a wandering duck, an ancient joke that American politicians told each other. The characters changed depending on the preferences of the narrator. This was the case until the printing press finally assigned “authorship” to Roosevelt-Hull.
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Anastasio Somoza Garcia(Spanish) Anastasio Somoza Garcia ; February 1 - September 29) - Nicaraguan military and statesman, de facto head of Nicaragua from 1936 to 1956.
Somoza regime
Under Somoza, a strict authoritarian regime was established in Nicaragua. The Guard became the arbiter of destinies in Nicaragua [ style] . She controlled the trade in weapons, alcoholic beverages, drugs, and medicines in the country. Organized prostitution, gambling houses, radio and television, tax collection and rural justice were also under her jurisdiction. Anastasio Somoza himself was considered already in the mid-1940s one of the richest people in all of Mesoamerica. He was an extreme anti-communist (in particular, surrealism was banned in any form as “communist art”), patronized fascist and Nazi organizations, and showed open sympathy for Hitler before the start of World War II. However, on December 8, 1941 he declared war on Germany.
"Our son of a bitch"
Despite his authoritarianism, the anti-communist Somoza enjoyed political support from the United States. Franklin Roosevelt is credited with saying in 1939: “Somoza may be a son of a bitch, but he’s our son of a bitch.” As historian David Schmitz points out, a study of the archives of Franklin Roosevelt's presidential library found no evidence to support this statement. The phrase first appeared in the November 15, 1948 issue of Time magazine; On March 17, 1960, it was mentioned in the CBS broadcast Trujillo: Portrait of a Dictator as being said in reference to Rafael Trujillo of the Dominican Republic. Thus, the authorship and object of this statement remain doubtful.
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Anastasio Garcia Somoza
Somoza, Somoza Garcia Anastasio (1.2.1896, San Marcos - 29.9.1956), Nicaraguan statesman, general (1926). The son of a wealthy coffee plantation owner. He received his education in Nicaragua, then in Philadelphia (USA). Returning to Nicaragua, he married a representative of the wealthy and very influential Debail family. He took part in the removal of President A. Diaz (1926). Under President X. Moncada (1928-32), he served as Minister of Foreign Affairs and translator for the US Marine Expeditionary Force in Nicaragua. In 1932, the Americans, leaving Nicaragua, appointed S. commander of the National Guard, which was just beginning to be created. Relying on the loyal military, S. overthrew President X. Baptiste Sacasa (who was the uncle of S.'s wife) in 1936 and was then elected president of the country. On January 1, 1937, he officially took over the post of head of state. Established a regime of personal power, brutally suppressing any manifestations of opposition. With financial and military support from the United States, S. managed to defeat the troops of A. Sandino. Increased the term of office as president from 4 to 6 years. 12/8/1941 declared war on Germany. In 1947, he allowed L. Arguello to be elected president, but a month after the inauguration he declared him incompetent and again led the country, and in 1950 he officially took over the post of president. He established a one-party regime of the Liberal Party in the country, then allowed the activities of the Conservative Party (with which he entered into a pact that provided the latter with a certain number of seats in parliament). In 1948 he took part in the military intervention (subsidized by the United States) in Costa Rica, then in the intervention in Guatemala (1954). In 1954 he signed an agreement with the United States, which placed Nicaraguan military formations under the full control of American military advisers. By the end of his life he had made a huge fortune for himself, becoming the richest landowner in the country. Mortally wounded by nationalist R. Lopez Peretz. After his death, his son Luis Somoza Debail came to power, and in 1967 his 2nd son, Anastasio Somoza Debail. The Somoza family ruled Nicaragua until 1979.
Zalessky K.A. Who was who in the Second World War. Allies of the USSR. M., 2004
Somoza Anastasio Garcia, President of Nicaragua in 1936-1947 and 1950-1956, in fact a dictator. Killed by conspirators.
Tacho early became interested in gambling, wine and women. His father sent him to Philadelphia to business school, but in America, instead of studying, Anastasio began reselling used cars, and squandered the proceeds from his business in gambling houses.
Then Somoza Sr. returned his son to Nicaragua, purchased a tavern for him and married him to Salvador, the daughter of Dr. Luis J. Debayle and Casimira Sacasa, the sister of the future President of Nicaragua, Juan Sacasa.
Marriage did not calm down Tacho. Very soon the tavern went under the hammer for gambling debts, and the same fate befell the San Marcos estate, which Anastasio inherited from his father. To improve his financial affairs, Anastasio became a counterfeiter.
In 1921, he was arrested along with an accomplice and future chief of staff of the National Guard, Camilo Gonzalez.
In 1926, the military forces of the Liberal Party removed President Adolfo Diaz. The Debayles were influential figures in the Liberal Party and helped their son-in-law Somoza get nominated.
Somoza combined his duties as Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs in the government of President José María Moncada with serving as a translator for the US Marine Expeditionary Force in Nicaragua.
General Calvin B. Matthews, the last American chief of the Nicaraguan National Guard, recommended Somoza to take his place. In November 1932, new President Juan Bautista Sacasa appointed General Somoza to command the National Guard.
After the end of World War II, Somoza, anticipating the intensification of opponents of his rule, made broad promises of reforms, which remained only promises.
Somoza rewrote the Constitution of Nicaragua four times in his own interests, and changed ministers like gloves. Follower Hitler, Mussolini And Hirohito who gave him their portraits with touching inscriptions, he introduced USA in World War II quickly turned into a “democrat”, and then found contacts with the Zionists, making their man I. Arazi his ambassador for special assignments in Western Europe.
In early April 1954, a group of guards attempted to stage a coup in Managua with the intention of physically eliminating Somoza. The dictator found out about this in a timely manner and suppressed the rebellion. He ordered the captured rebels to be burned alive. His victims numbered in the thousands, and during the reign of his successors, in the tens of thousands.
On September 21, in the second largest Nicaraguan city of Leon, a fiesta was held at the local Workers' Club to mark the proclamation of the dictator as a presidential candidate for a new term. The hero of the occasion was here. In the midst of the evening, when at the table where Tacho was sitting, another toast was being proclaimed to the candidate’s upcoming success, and the orchestra was playing the popular mambo tune “Caballo Negro” (black horse), one of the dancers (it was Rigoberto with his partner) quietly approached the president's table and seriously wounded Somoza with four shots.
After the assassination attempt, Somoza was sent by helicopter to the hospital in the American Panama Canal Zone, where those sent by the president arrived D. Eisenhower surgeons Despite their efforts, Somoza died on September 29. This is how 60-year-old Tacho ended his days ingloriously. During his lifetime he said: “I think I will remain in power for 40 years, but if USA If they judge otherwise, then I’m ready to leave the presidential palace even tomorrow.” He held power for a little over 20 years and left for another world at the behest of not the Americans, but their opponents.
I.Mussky. One Hundred Great Dictators. M.Veche, 2000
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