In 1927, the British government sharplyreacted to the support of the Soviet Union of the Kuomintang (People's Party) in China. Later it turned out that this political force was not at all different from the world communist movement, and there was nothing particularly to argue about, at least with the British, but the reason for the conflict nevertheless arose. Harsh words contained in a note signed by Austin Chamberlain, Minister of External Relations of the British Empire, outraged the leadership of the USSR. Her tone was really harsh, and although the British did not have any real opportunities for intervention, the Soviet people did not remain silent.
Nothing brings you together like a common external enemy.Under the slogan "Our answer to Chamberlain" everyone has rallied: the shepherds from transcendental pastures, the Uzbeks, the cotton growers, the steelmakers, and the builders of the DnieproGES, in general, all the working people of the first proletarian world in the world. Each raised ram, cooked pud of cast iron, a loaf baked at a bakery plant, or a nut screwed into a locomotive was not just a production achievement. This was our response to Chamberlain, an arrogant arrogant lord in a tuxedo and with a monocle, arrogantly looking at the working people of Soviet Russia and, obviously, despising the British proletarians.
Apparently, the British minister himself did not suspectthe abnormal popularity of a proper name on one sixth of the land. It was full of matchboxes, posters, flyers and other products of the Soviet agitprop, and the cartoon image of Joseph Austen shied away from powerful kulaks, figs, squadrons, locomotives, Red Army bayonets, sheaves of wheat and fat cows. That was our answer to Chamberlain, and if he knew that his unfortunate note would be the cause of such massive enthusiasm, he would certainly have refused the very thought of it.
The politician died in 1937, and his namewould have been forgotten in our country long ago, like other luminaries of the British royal political firmament. Today, rarely anyone remembers Baldwin, Lloyd George or Macmillan, but our answer to Chamberlain was remembered, and, apparently, this expression was among the catch phrase of the Russian language forever. That is the meaning of a decisive rebuff, sometimes ironically, and sometimes seriously.
Many have already forgotten, while others have never knownabout political collisions of the second half of the twenties. Today, few will appreciate the underlying humor contained in the workers ’response to the British lord, as well as in the hundreds of warnings made by the Chinese government to the United States in the fifties, each of which was“ last and serious ”. But there is a rock band called “Answer to Chamberlain”. The songs of this group have nothing to do with the politics of the first post-revolutionary decade, but they are quite interesting in all other respects, which compares favorably with the dirty teeth of pop music. “Bullets”, “Aty-bats”, “In heavens”, “Tramp - thunder”, “All the same” - these and other compositions should be listened to by lovers of album rock. “Reply to Chamberlain” - a group from Bryansk. She is already a good decade and a half, today she is becoming popular throughout the post-Soviet space. Well, the answer is a bit late, but still, at a good hour!
