This phrase is always relevant for our country. Was and is, and most likely will be. An outstanding personality, no matter how you treat her, and no matter how she glorifies herself, differs from mediocrity in that she speaks incorruptible speeches. So this phrase, one way or another, resonates with the Russian. Simply, in different periods of the country's life, it was perceived differently. Literally, like the joy of a sunny day, when a happy life loomed in a bright future full of hope. Well, maybe not for everyone, maybe someone will not live, but for their children, for sure. And then the chest was filled with enthusiasm, and Komsomol enthusiasm flared up in the eyes. “The country grows and sings amicably, forges new happiness with the song. You look at the sun and the sun is brighter. Life has become better, life is more fun. "
And in other times, it was already perceived as a rudiment of some kind of yesterday's life, full of youthful illusions, already looking silly in stagnant gray everyday life. And maybe the majority of citizens, comparing their life with the life of their childhood, the life of their parents, could still take the first part of the phrase seriously - life has become better, then, at the second - more fun, they already looked with irony. Yes, it’s true, and it wasn’t gloomy anyway. Blue lights, radio, stage, movies on TV and other cultural and mass recreation, and even the same pursuit of shortages gave peppercorns. But, the belief was in the inviolability of tomorrow. "Calls like birds, one after another, songs fly over the Soviet country."
But even today, this phrase is relevant. The truth opens up for her, already some kind of mocking meaning. After all, what has become the best is perceived not by comparison with the past, but by comparison with the best - with comfortable Europe. Yes, and as far as more fun is concerned, it will not surpass the Comedy Club either. But, on a personal level, "more fun" - annoying. It is perceived as the need to constantly be in good shape and fight for life. Will not relax. There is a pensioner in Novosibirsk having fun. For an increase in my pennies I came to the Minister of Labor and Social Development with a rope and soap, and matches, with salt, with the words: “There are no words, how grateful I am for the increase to my pension of 89 rubles from the minister! Here is a gift, I give it to the amount of the increase "-" The hum of cities and fields is cheerful - life has become better, life is more fun. "
And the best is already like the worst. The worse the better - the strongest survive. This is the slogan of today. After all, no one is against. The government wants to educate the people of the instincts of survival, which is something to produce parasites. Indeed, the currency is volatile, inflation is in progress, prices are rising for everything from fuel to dill. And we cannot understand in any way why this world community, not how it will not see clearly that man, man is a friend. As it grabbed the throat, and strives to bite. So that everything returns to normal. Nobody canceled Darwin's laws as well as Newton's. Of course, one can also remember about humanitarian values, but this is for those who have mastered the law. And so, socialism and all sorts of others with a human face discouraged us. Forgot that mammals are animals too. “You should know, all of you, we are on the alert, we will not concede an inch of land to the enemy.”
Maybe from the official tribunes, statesmen are ashamed to cut the truth to the womb.They stand at the microphone, crumple and select affectionate expressions, so as not to scare the people. Cover themselves with varnished words. Well, you can understand them too, we are the electorate, we must vote. And we have elections, it is a permanent process. Here and there, then there, then here. Now we choose the head of the country, now where, which mayors, now the Duma members, to this or that legislative assembly, or even just some municipalities. So dear friends and comrades, and gentlemen, if you want to cut you in the eye, no one will. And then still what good you go to rebel. And they ate all at once, then the National Guard will not be enough for everyone, not to frighten them with Armata. “Fathers and children have Silushka, life has become better, live with bills.”
Why be sad, where to go.Why look at the little things, so what, that there are more micro-borrowers by a third compared to last year. And to hell with the fact that the black market for such loans is comparable to the white market (100 billion rubles). On the other hand, the number of citizens has doubled in comparison with 1991, who believe that they live above average (10%). And 64% of those who consider themselves to be the average level have become, which is 15% more than in the 1990s (VTsIOM). In addition, since then Russia has been able to catch up and overtake America. Not in everything, of course, but in the level of concentration of wealth per capita, they were made like children. So in Russia, 10% of the population accounts for 82% of personal wealth, and in the States, only 76%, and even less in China - 62% (data from the report of the Swiss bank Credit Suisse). So that we live, we do not grieve - "Life has become better, life has become more fun."
Life has become better, life has become happier
From the speech of JV Stalin (1878-1953) at the First All-Union Conference of the Stakhanovites (November 17, 1935): “Life has become better, comrades. Life has become more fun. " Then the leader of the party continued: "And when life is fun, work is good ... If our life was bad, unattractive, unhappy, then we would not have any Stakhanov movement."
In modern speech, it is quoted, as a rule, ironically - about unfavorable life circumstances.
Encyclopedic Dictionary of winged words and expressions. - M .: "Lokid-Press"... Vadim Serov. 2003.
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"During the period of the most terrible terror, everyday life strangely improved. After long years of hunger, after collectivization and everything else that brought the people to almost complete exhaustion, there was a kind of lull. Stalin himself gave the go-ahead. He uttered the famous phrase:" Life has become better, life has become more fun. ”All the newspapers repeated it in chorus.
Stalin allowed the joys of life. Legalized love, family happiness (it was very difficult to divorce), fatherly duty, allowed poetry, allowed reasoning about humanism, blush and jewelry. Tango and foxtrot returned, and Leonid Utyosov created Soviet jazz. He had a song that accurately expresses the spirit of modern times:
On the alleys of the central park
Mignonette grows on May morning.
You can wear a very bright tie
And be a hero of labor in the mine.
How so: reseda -
And a hero of labor?
I do not understand, you explain to me.
Because we have
Everyone is young now
In our beautiful young country.
The year 1937 for the inhabitants of the former USSR has become a household term, a symbol of the Great Terror, a senseless and merciless conveyor of arrests, torture, trials and executions. During that year, about 350 thousand people were killed, 315 times more than in the previous year, 1936. Approximately the same amount was sent to camps for "counter-revolutionary crimes".
However, in parallel with the bloody bacchanalia in the country, everyday life somehow continued with its joys and concerns, newspaper reports about the trials were densely interspersed with reports of new successes of socialist construction and the exploits of brave pilots. And for Western tourists who came to the USSR in 1937, the horror of the mass shootings remained completely behind the scenes.
Here's a small kaleidoscope of visual evidence of that hectic time. ... 
On January 6, a census of the population of the USSR took place. However, its preliminary results were almost immediately (after 10 days) declared "sabotage"; the responsible officials who carried it out were arrested and repressed. It seems that several million were missing and the "top" did not like it.
* In the 1937 census, for the first and last time in our entire history from 1917 to the present day, the questionnaires included the column "Confession". It was filled in by many, not being afraid to call themselves believers in those conditions. And this is after the notorious "five-year plan of atheism" (1932-37)! This was one of the reasons for the cancellation of the census results and the repression of those who conducted it: if the facts do not suit the management, so much the worse for the facts.
With unexpectedly great fanfare in 1937, the USSR celebrated the centenary of the death of A.S. Pushkin (poster of Buyev and Iordansky)
In the thirty-seventh year, the centenary of Pushkin's death was celebrated with great fanfare, two editions of the Complete Works were printed in millions of copies. 
Pushkin was glorified even in the mountain Mari language 
Cultural life in general was in full swing: citizens were encouraged to actively subscribe to foreign literature
Until the thirty-sixth year, everyone lived in the name of the "common cause" and no one thought about private life. She was barely enough to have children. And then suddenly, after Stalin's one single phrase “life has become more fun,” everything changed. The people obeyed.
In 1937, the second year went, as "Life has become better, life has become more fun" and the theme of people's happiness was actively played up by the authors of the posters.
"Thanks to the party, thanks to my dear Stalin for a happy, cheerful childhood!", 1937
The painters did not lag behind. In this picture by Alexander Deineka we see a fashion show of the 1937 collection in Moscow 
A. Samokhvalov painted the painting "Soviet physical culture" in 1937 
They did not shy away from erotic motives either. The famous sculpture of a girl with a paddle by Shadr in Moscow's Gorky Park, 1937
* Always believed that "The Girl with the Paddle" was in underpants. And here somehow it turned out not so ...
"The Girl with the Paddle" was wearing underpants. In the Central Park of Culture and Leisure, 2 sculptures of Shadr "Girls with a Paddle" were installed. One in 1935, another in 1937. The first was criticized for being erotic and removed. But the second was also nude. Judging by the look in the photo (buildings), it could be 1935 (?)
And the "Girl with the Paddle" was then replaced with a dressed one, in shorts and a T-shirt
New resorts for workers were built in the Caucasus. City buses on Stalinsky Prospekt in Sochi, 1937 
"Citizens of the USSR have the right to rest" V.I. Govorkov, 1937
The counters were slowly filling up. Smoked fish, caviar, four or even five types of cheese appeared. They began to sell oranges everywhere, Spanish. The cafes were opened. For example, "Cocktail Bar" on Gorky Street. There you could have a drink sitting in the semi-darkness on a high stool - this was considered the height of luxury. And in "Artistic" opposite the Moscow Art Theater, you could have a cup of coffee before or after the performance and eat an omelet.
They began to dress better. Women began to go to hairdressers and do manicures - manicurists were even in factories - they painted their lips with red lipstick, plucked their eyebrows. Before, everyone dressed the same badly, but now there is some opportunity to be elegant. Fashion magazines began to appear again. Comrade Zhemchuzhina, Molotov's wife, was entrusted with the responsibility of producing perfumes, lotions and creams. 
In the USSR, special attention was paid to the emancipation of women. In 1937, ladies - automobiles became a fashionable theme. "We learn to drive a car", S. Shor, 1937
The communists began to regularly fall in love and start a family. At the same time, new literature appeared, lyric poetry returned in the form of poems by Simonov and Dolmatovsky, who sang about love under the cloudless sky of their homeland. It was even allowed to mention Dostoevsky and Yesenin, for which earlier it was possible to go to prison for a long time.
And motorcyclists! "Motorcycle race of engineers' wives", A. Yar-Kravchenko, 1937 
And the female pilots, of course. Poster by P. Karachentsev, 1937
The theater had such a success then, which it probably never had any more. At night we stood in queues for tickets to get to the Moscow Art Theater and see Katchalov, Moskvin, Knipper - Chekhov. The most fashionable performance was Anna Karenina; he even went to Paris.
The Days of the Turbins went on with great success. I knew people who went to the Turbins thirty-two times. Bulgakov showed that the white officers also had a sense of their own dignity and a concept of honor. They said that Stalin had attended the performance many times, sat in the back of the box, hidden from view.
The path was open for successful women to the very top. "An unforgettable meeting", Vasily Efanov, 1937 
The year 1937 was marked by further successes in the industrial and technological development of the country.
The turnkey automobile factories built by the Americans increased the production of American car models.
ZIS main conveyor, I. Shagin, 1937
“I don’t know of any other country where a person breathes so freely.” It sounded incessantly on the streets from loudspeakers, and in apartments from "plates", and God forbid in the kitchen or in the corridor of a communal apartment to ask to make it quieter. They would have reported instantly, there was no shortage of informers. It was impossible to hide from the avalanche of propaganda. For example, on each wall there was a photograph of Lenin and Stalin called "Great Friendship". Then, under Khrushchev, it turned out that this was a photomontage: two different pictures - one of Lenin, the other of Stalin - were combined to canonize Stalin during his lifetime.
The futuristic steam locomotive-giant "Joseph Stalin" (1937) entered the steel lines 
Handsome motor ships of unprecedented outlines entered the waterways, 1937 
One of the main events of the year was the opening of the Moscow-Volga channel
He never appeared in public. He was invisible like a god
He never appeared in public. He was invisible like a god. Sometimes I called on the phone in the middle of the night. There were many rumors in Moscow about his conversations with Pasternak, Ehrenburg, Stanislavsky. He invited actors to perform in the Kremlin. But ordinary people could see him only twice a year: at the mausoleum during parades on May 1 or November 7.
Human trembling is impossible to describe. Especially among the young. We woke up at six in the morning in anticipation of happiness, then waited for hours in the columns ... Impatience, fun - they played accordions, sang, carried banners and could not believe that they would see Him so close. They walked in ranks. When it was the turn to pass in front of the mausoleum, the pace accelerated, the guards commanded: wider step, faster, pass faster! And people rolled their necks so that they could see as long as possible, in order to capture the precious image of the leader and teacher in their memory.
He was idolized. People shouted "Long live Stalin!" When they were shot, convinced that he did not know what was happening to them. How then, during the Patriotic War, soldiers died with his name on their lips - this was described by Ehrenburg, Grossman, Paustovsky.
I have never seen him. The only time I had the opportunity, I got sick. In the evening, the guys, terribly excited, came to me to tell you. They were very sorry that I was not with them. I listened and once again felt like a stranger.
A large group of photographers, journalists and writers was immediately taken along the channel, and a luxurious photo album was published as a result of the trip. 
However, the greatest pride of the USSR was aviation! In June 1937, the American city of Vancouver met the Soviet ANT-25 aircraft commanded by Chkalov 
While the organs were mercilessly exterminating the commanding staff of the Red Army, the country was popularly preparing for war.
Exercises in the Leningrad region, 1937 
"Collective farmers greet tankers during maneuvers", Ekaterina Zernova, 1937 
Back in 1937, the "architectural genocide" reached its peak - the massive destruction of Orthodox and other churches.
Demolition of the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral in Baku, 1937 
At the end of the year, elections to the Supreme Soviet were held, according to the new Stalin Constitution of 1936 
The Soviet leadership did its best to advertise the country's successes in the West.
The "nail" of the 1937 World Exhibition in Paris was a Soviet pavilion with a sculpture by Vera Mukhina 
In 1937, thousands of Western tourists visited the USSR. Intourists in Leningrad, 1937 
Back in 1937, a rather famous German writer Lyon Feuchwanger visited the USSR and wrote a book about it
On October 26, 1932, Joseph Stalin called the writers "engineers of human souls." We decided to make a selection of the most famous statements of a politician, which later became aphorisms.
"Life has become better, life has become happier!"... Despite the fact that it was in this form that the phrase became widely known and used, it completely sounded like "Life has become better, comrades. Life has become more fun. And when life is fun, work is good ... If our life was bad, unsightly, sad, then we would not have had any Stakhanov movement. " Stalin pronounced it on November 17, 1935, during a speech at the First All-Union Conference of Workers and Workers-Stakhanovites. Some historians see in it a clear irony, because the secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU (b) uttered these words on the eve of the peak of mass repressions. Stalin is even credited with "false optimism."
"Cadres are everything"... Stalin uttered this phrase on May 4, 1935, at the release of the red commanders. This is perhaps one of his most famous sayings. In this way he formulated the essence of party-political leadership of society in an extremely capacious manner.
"Winners can and should be judged"... With this phrase, Stalin replayed the aphorism "the winners are not judged." It was pronounced at a meeting of voters of the Stalin district of Moscow on February 9, 1946. In its entirety it sounded like this: “They say that the winners are not judged, that they should not be criticized, that they should not be tested. This is wrong. The winners can and should be judged, it is possible and necessary to criticize and check. winners: there will be less conceit, more modesty. "
"We have no prisoners, we only have traitors"... These words were spoken by Stalin during the war, when he was offered to exchange his captured son for a high-ranking military man - a general. Joseph Vissarionovich then refused and uttered his famous phrase.
"Talkers have no place in operational work"... This quote is from a report to the 17th Party Congress on the work of the Central Committee of the CPSU (b). Stalin spoke of two types of people who "prevent us from moving forward." Here is his full quote: "One type of worker is people with renowned merit in the past, people who have become nobles ... These arrogant nobles think that they are irreplaceable ... And now about the second type of workers. I mean the type of talkers, I would say, honest talkers, honest people, loyal to Soviet power, but incapable of leading, incapable of organizing anything. " To thunderous applause from the audience, Iosif Vissarionovich pronounced a verdict on the “talkers”: “What about these incorrigible talkers? posts and put on other, non-operational work. Chatterboxes have no place in operational work! "
"Our cause is just, the enemy will be defeated, victory will be ours."... For the first time, Soviet citizens heard this slogan from the lips of the Deputy Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR V.M. Molotov. This was the final phrase of his address to the Soviet people, which he read at 12 noon on June 22, 1941 - the day the Great Patriotic War began. Stalin repeated the call in his first radio speech on July 3, 1941: “... all the peoples of our country, all the best people in Europe, America and Asia, finally, all the best people in Germany ... see that our cause is just, that the enemy will be defeated, that we must win. " However, there is an opinion that Molotov coordinated his text with Stalin, so the phrase belongs to the leader.
"Engineers of Human Souls"... Stalin used this phrase on October 26, 1932, at a meeting with Soviet writers at the house of Maxim Gorky. They say that the leader only repeated the statement of the famous Soviet writer Yuri Karlovich Olesha, which he liked, and thus officially introduced these words into the circle of the winged expressions of his time.
"Every mistake has a first and last name"... It was spoken in 1940. This phrase is also attributed to Stalin's closest associate - Beria, as well as Sergo Ordzhonikidze and the people's commissar Yezhov. It is believed that Lazar Kaganovi, People's Commissar for Railways, was the first to say it, and it sounded like this: "Every accident has a name, surname and position."
"You have to be a very brave person to be a coward in the Red Army." This quote is not attributed to anyone other than Stalin. Sometimes it is even published as an anecdote from the times of Joseph Stalin.
"It doesn't matter how they voted, it's important how they counted"... Stalin uttered these words in 1934 at the 17th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) about the procedure for electing the General Secretary of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), in which he won. They were blatant irony about unfair elections.
(quotes from books: Igor Kurlyandsky, "Stalin, Power, Religion"; Elena Prudnikova, "Iosif Dzhugashvili. The Most Human Man"; Zhuravlev PA, "Meetings with Stalin".)
Life has become better, comrades, life has become more fun, and when you have fun, work gets better - a widespread version of the phrase uttered by the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU (b) I.V. Stalin on November 17, 1935, in a speech at the First All-Union Meeting of Workers and Workers - Stakhanovites. The whole phrase sounded like this: “Life has become better, comrades. Life has become more fun. And when life is fun, work is good ... If our life was bad, unattractive, sad, then we would not have any Stakhanov movement " .
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No later than 1936, the phrase was fixed in the chorus of the song "Life has become better, life has become more fun" (words by V. I. Lebedev-Kumach):
Calls are like birds, one after another,
Songs fly over the Soviet country.
The hum of cities and fields is merry -
Life has become better, life has become more fun!
"This slogan is on all banners, posters, banners."
“The most beautiful flowers, the best combinations of colors were chosen by the working people of Leningrad for two endlessly repeated slogans: 'Life has become better, comrades! Life has become more fun "," Thanks to Comrade Stalin for a happy and joyful life! "
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