Maybe it was they who introduced the term "Upper Volta with rockets" into circulation? The book was written by a group of American Sovietologists. By the way, this phrase has been attributed to him since 1993. In any case, there was no (serious) evidence of his authorship. The Federal Chancellor is far from stupid, he clearly realized what a powerful army was at his side. As they say, if this happened in reality, then only late at night, under a thick blanket. Schmidt could not utter the expression "Upper Volta with rockets" to the USSR. In fact, everything was, to put it mildly, somewhat differently. But we still managed to get some information.Īs it turned out, West Germany only seemed to be a very free country. And the Germans hardly remember the nuances. Nowadays, we do not particularly imagine what life was like in the FRG. Some curious researchers decided to find the original source. Helmut Schmidt, Federal Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany (until 1982). With the name change, little has changed in the state. Now we can find it on the map under the name Burkina Faso. With missiles, by the way, it was not that bad, but nothing. From the sixtieth to the eighty-fourth of the last century, it was called Upper Volta. The fact is that this name has survived the education that it signified. If everything is clear with missiles, no one will interpret this term in two ways, then "Upper Volta" requires explanations. Let's see what this means and where it came from. Even the President of the Russian Federation used this expression in his interviews. For example, there is a saying: "Upper Volta with missiles." Oddly enough, it is now associated with Russia. That is, the world perceives them unambiguously. They are not related to the ideological characteristics of individual countries or nations. In the information space, sometimes there are sonorous sticky names that survive due to their imagery.
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