The devil is in the details. The devil is in the details

Once again about the causes of the tragedy that happened a year ago in Belgorod and shook up not only the whole country, but the whole world.

We have already had our fill of what the “health care reform” has brought us. This is what the new government calls the collapse of the Soviet medical care system - one of the best in the world! Previously, people went into medicine to save people, now they go...to make money.

IT WAS AND FORGET?

The tragedy that happened in Belgorod on the very eve of the new year, 2016, shook not only the whole country, but the whole world! Still would! Doctor Ilya Zelendinov beat to death a 56-year-old patient brought by ambulance in the hospital emergency room. Alas, only this publicity allowed a righteous judgment to take place.

They tried to get rid of the beloved son-in-law of a high-ranking local official, Alexander Kulabukhov, to the last, almost blaming the murdered man for his own death.

Now, more than a year after that tragedy, we are forced to return to it again precisely because it was simply silenced in Belgorod at that time. But in addition to the deceased, there were many more victims. We are talking about the team of the 2nd city hospital.

A DOCTOR'S REST IS EXPENSIVE
TO PATIENTS...

The killer doctor took away the only true value from his colleagues - a good name. It was earned by common hard work over many years, and was lost instantly.

As punishment for what? For the best eye department in the region? For the best gynecological? Because the chief physician and city council deputy Vladimir Lutsenko pushed for the construction of a perinatal center at the hospital? Because for the first time in the modern history of the region, it was the 2nd City, with the help of the regional authorities, that managed to build a residential building for its employees? Just in time for that New Year, the house - 75 apartments, a kindergarten on the ground floor - was completed...

Everything collapsed. The team - almost one and a half thousand people - found themselves trampled into the mud. And after Deputy Governor Elena Batanova demanded and received a statement “on her own” from the chief physician, the 2nd City Hospital was simply left to the mercy of fate.

It’s hard to believe, but... The chief doctor of the regional hospital, Zhanna Chefranova, was at the same time (!) appointed chief doctor of the 2nd city hospital. Someone came up with something like this!

Alas, to correct the mistake, to return to his place the head physician, who was not allowed to remain in his hospital even as an ordinary surgeon - this did not occur to anyone. Although all the doctors with whom I had to talk about this topic during this year nodded in agreement: the man suffered innocently, he was treated unfairly...

DEATH FROM LOSS OF BLOOD OR PROFESSIONALISM?

The worst thing is that it was not only at her new place of work that Zhanna Chefranova experienced a complete bummer. In her native regional hospital, too, everything has not been working for a long time, thank God.

It should be said right away: 49-year-old Sergei Karachevtsev was a very healthy person. He died in the regional hospital for three weeks: he underwent one unnecessary, senseless operation, a second, and a third was already scheduled...

As the head of the department, Alexander Soloshenko, said, “we decided to look with our eyes.” They didn't even see anything. After the second operation, the patient developed peritonitis. He slowly bled to death, almost 20 liters of blood were transfused to him... He even endured a flight to the capital when his relatives found 2 million to pay for air ambulance...

Before this, the relatives, and not the doctors, organized the visit of a consultant from Moscow; they were in the hospital and were against transporting the patient to the capital (apparently, believing that the end was near and it would be better to do the autopsy themselves?). The hospital did not have the reagents needed to carry out a special analysis. And my brother took the blood to Moscow for analysis...

At 2 a.m. on March 19, Sergei Karachevtsev was taken to the Sklifosovsky Institute, where he was immediately given a diagnosis that could not be made at the main Belgorod hospital for three long, painful weeks. But it was already late, too late.

Sergei was a very healthy person. Not everyone in his place would have lasted so long...

And I remembered how the former head physician of the regional hospital, Vladimir Kulikovsky, answered my question: why is the mortality rate in the regional hospital the same, or even lower, than in some areas; How can this be, since the most seriously ill patients from the entire region are taken there?

He replied: “They treat well, that’s why they die less often.” But other doctors unanimously told me something completely different: the regional department either doesn’t take the most severe cases, or sends them back to the districts to die so that the indicators don’t spoil.

HE DOESN'T OWE ANYTHING TO ANYONE?

I had many reasons to meet Kulikovsky: the doctor himself, the former head of the regional hospital, heads the local medical center, and a deputy of the regional Duma. And in response I unexpectedly heard:

Why are you getting into this? Write about something else... Talk to others in this case. What am I obliged to do... I don’t owe anything to anyone! I don't owe anything!

However, unexpectedly he called back. He innocently explained such a drastic change in his views: he reported to the chairman of the Duma, and he reminded him that he was a public figure and still obliged...

Alas, our long conversation did not really yield anything. Or vice versa? It turns out that I “asked questions that have no answers,” and also “I myself must see that everything is leading to the collapse of healthcare.”

It remains to be fair to add that no one wanted to discuss the medical situation in the region with a journalist! And Elena Batanova, who recently became a former deputy governor, and the current deputy Natalya Zubareva, and the head physician of the regional hospital Zhanna Chefranova, and...

For two weeks I called their reception desks every day to no avail. Probably, on a business trip to Belgorod you should come for a couple of months or even better for a year at once...

By the way, only two agreed to the meeting - the former head physician of the 2nd City Hospital, but he really could not answer my questions, and her current one.

PASSWORD: “I AM FROM ZOTOV!”

The new chief physician Anton Bondarev - there is no newer - we met on the 21st day after his appointment - at first he surprised me with his spontaneity. Who sent you? And he surprised me even more by sternly warning me: if I don’t like what you write about me... And then I stopped being surprised. The gentleman came from business.

The main pride of the new boss is that he was appointed governor! “So you are a thieves? Did you get this position through connections?” - I clarified. Yes, Zotov personally asked and Savchenko personally appointed.

It’s worth explaining: Vladimir Zotov is a local oligarch and deputy of the regional Duma. At the end of last year, he was included in the Forbes list in 190th place with a fortune of $400 million.

Zotov's surname was repeated in the chief physician's speech like a password. Would you like to get another review and life would be good?

And it also constantly sounded: I, my... The remark that it was he who came to someone else’s team, which had been formed over the years, and not she who was hired to work for him, seemed to surprise my interlocutor. So we surprised each other...

Anton Bondarev and his subordinates seemed to be talking not about the same hospital, but about two different ones.

He: “The main thing is that I have extensive experience in leadership.”

They: “But he’s not a doctor, he doesn’t understand basic things, how can you appoint a person in charge who didn’t work in a hospital?!”

“I don’t touch anyone, let everyone work.”

“Yes, the deputy chief of surgery has not yet been officially fired, but there is already another one sitting in his office.”

"I'm modernizing..."

“How dare he mock people - leak planning meetings with offensive comments about doctors onto the Internet?! Why did he come? What does he want?

So far, it seems that only one thing is clear to the team: we are not his soldiers, and he is not our general.

Olga Kitova,

columnist weekly

"New Tuesday"

Belgorod-Moscow.

KOMMERSANT/FOTODOM

Who owns the natural resources in Russia? Today I became interested in understanding one “obvious” question, namely: “Who owns the national wealth of our country?” To be honest, like many people, I thought that it was for the people. But alas, as it turned out, the truth is much more surprising than it seemed at first glance... Let's get started. Russia and “national wealth” The term “national wealth” is usually considered to include all the resources of our country: land, oil, gas, coal, timber, raw materials and everything that is located on Russian territory and may have some value or utility. More than 1/3 of the Russian budget consists of revenues from oil and gas activities, the so-called mineral extraction tax. Mineral extraction tax - taxes on income from mineral resources And it seems that everything is quite obvious who owns the natural resources in Russia. If more than a third of the Russian Federation’s budget comes from revenues from the oil and gas industry, then the state receives the money. And the state spends it on the people and national programs. That is, it would be quite logical to say that indirectly (through the state), income from oil and gas in Russia is controlled by the people. But it's not that simple. Let's see what is written about this in the Constitution of the Russian Federation. Natural resources of Russia and the Constitution of the Russian Federation This is where I encountered a slight dissonance when I began to collect information on this issue. In theory, Russia's natural resources should belong to the people, and accordingly, all proceeds from the sale of oil and gas should go to us. But, in the Constitution of the Russian Federation, everything is written rather strangely in this regard: Taken from the Constitution of the Russian Federation. Chapter 1, Article 9, paragraph 2. “Land and other natural resources can be in private, state, municipal and other forms of ownership.” In simple words it is written that land and resources can be owned. And there is a listing of forms of ownership. The key word here is "can". This means that land and resources, a priori, do not belong to the people. But when the rights of ownership are formed, they can receive such a right. Taken from the Constitution of the Russian Federation. Chapter 2, Article 36, paragraph 1-3. But in Article 36 of the Constitution of the Russian Federation, there is a decoding to the ninth: “Ownership, use and disposal of land and other natural resources is carried out freely by their owners...” That is, in Article 9 it is written that there are forms of ownership in which land and resources may be in someone else's hands. And in Article 36 it is written that the rights to own, use and dispose of this land and resources belong to their owners (reference in Article 9 and forms of ownership). So much for “national wealth belongs to the people.” Land and resources in Russia belong to their owner (who acquires the rights of ownership, use and disposal), as written in the Constitution of the Russian Federation. Conclusion This is how it turns out, land and resources can belong to the people if they form a certain company that can acquire such property rights. But such a form of ownership as “people’s”, “civil” or “national” does not exist. In reality, rights to land and resources belong to their owner, no matter what form of ownership we are talking about. And accordingly, profits from the sale of oil and gas go to the owners of this land and resources, and not anyone else. Another thing is that the state takes taxes, excise taxes and fees from these “owners” for the extraction and sale of “national wealth” and indirectly receives income from the owner of the land and resources. Therefore, the statement that “Russia’s natural resources belong to the people” is incorrect; they belong to their owner (which may be citizens of the Russian Federation).

Regarding the expression “The devil is in the details,” a lot of different things have been written on the Internet, but little of substance.

There is a funny moment in the Wiki (in English).

First of all, this idiom is a reversal.
Initially it sounded like "God is in the details."

A mutation of this expression has been associated with several prominent people of German and French origin.

Many attribute the phrase to J. Goethe: “Der Teufel steckt im Detail oder da ist doch der Wurm drin!” (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
but I didn't find any confirmation.

Therefore, the RuNet statement: Goethe's complete statement: “God is in the details, and the devil is in the extremes.” - can be viewed with skepticism.

Several cultures compete for the primacy of pronunciation.
Due to the fact that it is not completely clear who is first, the authors come to a brilliant solution: “God is in the details” and so on. -- "an ancient saying of the Germans and French and it is no longer possible to find out the original author..."

Other options:
- it was an expression Seems, was a favorite of the German art historian Aby Warburg (1866-1929), although Warburg's biographer, E. M. Gombrich, does not confirm that it was Warburg who invented it.
-- formerly the form "Le Bon Dieu Est Dans Le Detail" (the good God is in the details) attributed to Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880)
-- The New York Times obituary in 1969 mentioned this now catchphrase, "God is hidden in the small details," and associated him with the architect of the modern glass-skyscraper style, the German-born architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886) -1969).

It is unknown who replaced God with the devil.

There are dozens of ways to paraphrase and invent the meaning of the expression:
God is in the details and the devil is in the extremes
The devil is in the details, the whole machine belongs to God.
Overcoming the difficult begins with the easy, achieving the great begins with the small.
"Everything starts small and ends with the Universe"
God and the devil are an inseparable whole.
The devil is in the details, details and shades.
Little things can be ignored and forgiven, but extremes can be either loved or hated.
...
In general, as in any aphorism, there is an abyss of meaning.

The devil/God is in the details.
Der Teufel steckt im Detail.
Le bon Dieu est dans le detail.

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It is curious that the figurative expression formed the basis of a huge number of jokes (and then anecdotes related to the fact that an inattentive person in a dialogue with the cunning Devil misses some important detail.

The devil is the first liar and the father of lies, “the doctor of lies, since lies were invented by himself” (Weier, On Deceit, ch. 3, § 4).

The devil, after Christ’s victory over him, lost his right to man and therefore cannot act by force: he “can deceive people, but can no longer subjugate them by force” (Isidore of Pelusium. Epistle CLIV: Anatoly the Deacon. Col. 1239).

That is why in medieval legends there are so few cases of direct material, gross influence of the devil on a person: demons act here through temptation and deception.

There are many such stories and parables (Pact with the Devil), but there are also many stories about man deceiving the devil
In "The Life of St. Basil the Great,” the devil is indignant at the infidelity of Christians: “You Christians are clever at subterfuge, when you need me, you come to me; when they begin to persecute you, you renounce me and approach your Christ, and he, as kind and merciful, accepts you” (Sar. VIII. Col. 302-303).

The queen of the Frankish kingdom of Austrasia Brungo (7th century) signed a treaty with Satan, according to which he had to build a road in one night, before the rooster crowed. However, the queen made the rooster crow at the very moment when the devil was carrying the last stone to its intended place.
As a result, the contract was broken (Collin de Plancy, 121).

Master Gerard, the legendary builder of the unfinished Cologne Cathedral, received a construction plan from the devil in exchange for a corresponding agreement; but Gerard, grabbing with one hand the plan extended by the devil, with the other hand presented the evil relics of Saint Ursula, which put him to flight - however, the devil, recoiling from the relics, tore out the most valuable piece from the plan, so the cathedral remained unfinished (Collin de Plancy, 301).

A certain Jack and the devil were building a bridge near Kentmouth; everything they built at night collapsed during the day, but the devil finally completed the bridge on the condition that he would receive the soul of the first creature to cross the bridge; Jack threw a bone across the bridge, and a dog ran across him (Russell, Lucifer, 74).

In the French version of this legend - about the Saint-Cloud bridge in Paris - a black cat is the first to cross the bridge (Givry, 150).

The devil built a house for a shoemaker, flattered by the promise that the shoemaker would give him his soul as soon as the lit candle burned out; the shoemaker blows out the candle before it burns out, and the devil is left with nothing (Russell, Lucifer, 74).

Nostradamus signed an agreement with the devil, according to which he must belong to the devil after death, both if he is buried in the church and if he is buried outside it. The foresight of the devil, who insisted on this clause, turned out to be a trap for him: the cunning prophet ordered in his will that his coffin be walled up in the wall of the sacristy. It turned out that Nostradamus was buried neither in the church nor outside it, and the contract, naturally, was terminated (Collin de Plancy, 494).

Rabbi Joshua Ben-Levi, dying, asks the devil to show him at least the entrance to heaven - the devil agrees, but the rabbi, seeing the gates of heaven, rushes towards them, enters heaven and swears “in the name of the living God” that he will never leave here. God has no choice but to agree with him. Thus the rabbi “deceives” both the devil and God (Collin de Plancy, 379).

An innovative, albeit completely suicidal, position was taken in this matter by Johann Faust, who (according to the testimony of the Thuringian and Erfurt chronicles of Z. Hogel; the folk book gives the same version - Faust, 109) deliberately refused to break the contract with the devil, not wanting to deceive him: “ My oath bound me tightly: after all, in my insolence I despised God, treacherously abandoned him, trusting more in the devil than in him. Therefore, I cannot now return to him, nor be consoled by his mercy, which I so frivolously despised. Moreover, it would be dishonest and dishonorable to break the agreement that I personally sealed with my blood. After all, the devil honestly kept everything he promised me” (Testimony of Faust, 32).

But the brightest page is about how the devil (Satan, damn... sometimes his role is played by a fairy) hides some little things in the details... but then, as a result, it turns out that the person missed some point that could have foreseen it, but due to many distractions or the depravity of the person himself, he did not take this detail into account, which turns out to be funny in itself.

And here I would divide jokes into two large categories.
One is anecdotes about how a person did not take into account “The Devil is in the Details” because of his depravity.
The second is anecdotes about how the devil presented many distracting details due to which a person became confused and made the wrong choice.

According to the first category There are a huge number of anecdotes - perhaps they trace their history to the transactions of a blacksmith, a priest, some high-ranking aristocrat with the devil, but in the modern interpretation such an anecdote is initially dedicated to a lawyer.
Short version:
The devil came to the lawyer and immediately proposed a deal: “You will win all the trials, you will become the richest man on earth, but at the same time all your relatives will die and go to hell.” Time to think until tomorrow - think. The devil has disappeared, the lawyer sits with his head in his hands and argues intensely. - So this means: I will win all cases. Let's put it. I will become the richest man on earth. Let's say. All my relatives will die... I don’t understand what he wants to catch me with.

I have many versions of this joke - the first time I changed it for the sake of Navalny) (therefore for the sake of Poroshenko and for the sake of Russian football players):
The devil appeared to a Russian football player, for example, Kokorin, and said:
- You are a disgusting football player. You will be kicked out of the National Team, and you will not score another goal, but I can help you! You will still receive huge fees, relax at luxury resorts, drink the most expensive champagne, and even during the anthem you will not need to get up. The only condition is that you can no longer touch the soccer ball... Don’t rush to answer, think... Tomorrow I’ll come for the answer.
With these words the devil disappeared.
Kokorin was left alone and began to think:
- So! I will still receive huge fees, relax at luxury resorts, drink the most expensive champagne, and even during the anthem I will not have to get up... But at the same time I will not be allowed to touch the soccer ball...
- Crap! Once again... fees, resorts, champagne... but you can't touch the ball...
- Crap!!! What does he want to catch me with?
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The metamorphoses of this anecdote reached H. Clinton:
Hillary's election campaign ends and then the devil suddenly appears in front of her:
"I am here to offer you a deal. I will give you unlimited wealth, even more power, even more media to cater to your every whim. In exchange, I ask for your soul, the souls of every member of your family, and the souls of all your constituents." .
Hillary thinks for a moment, then asks: “Unlimited wealth and power?”
“Absolutely unlimited,” says the devil.
"Pandering to the media?"
“They will ride and support you, no matter what you say or do,” the devil assures.
"And you want my soul, the souls of my family, and the souls of my constituents?"
"Yes.
Hillary thinks deeply for a moment and responds:
"So... Well, what's the catch?"
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For the second category, the classic version is:
The man dies and goes to hell. The Devil says that he must choose a room in hell where he must spend the rest of eternity.
A man enters the first room and sees a bunch of people standing on their heads on a wooden floor.
He thinks - "No way. I can't do this forever."
He enters the second room and sees people standing on their heads on a metal (or concrete) floor.
He thinks, "I definitely can't do this forever."
Enter the third - a bunch of people standing knee-deep in shit, drinking coffee and peacefully talking.
He says to himself, "...well, I think I can get used to the smell."
He makes a choice, gets a cup of coffee, gets acquainted with those present, but after 10 minutes the devil appears and says:
"Okay, coffee break is over. Let's go back to the headstand."

Another option:
The man dies and goes to hell. There, Lucifer, asking him to choose one of three punishments, leads him into the first room. A man sees sinners hanging in chains over a fire and refuses. In the second room, he sees sinners up to their necks in ice, and wasps fly around and sting them directly on their shaved heads (bandits?). The man refuses this too, and Lucifer takes him to the third room. There, men see sinners knee-deep in shit, but quite calmly reading newspapers and even drinking coffee. And he decided to choose the lesser of all evils. He also took a newspaper, a cup of coffee, sat, read, and sipped coffee. Suddenly the devil appears and says:
- All rest is over, it's time to turn upside down.

Russian short translated version:
The man went to Hell. Looks - two rooms. In one devils over people
they scoff, in another - three men stand knee-deep in shit and smoke deliciously.
But you need to choose one. Without hesitation he went to the men for a cigarette
shot, and also stood up with them. They are smoking, and suddenly a huge devil runs in:
- Okay, guys, the smoke break is over! LET'S FINISH IT!

One of the first jokes from the second category, according to professor of Jewish origin Mark Parakh, who emigrated to the USA, was invented in the USSR.
It seems to me that he is mistaken and the joke was invented by American Sovietologists:
Brezhnev died and was sent to hell.
Given his lifetime achievements, the devil allowed Brezhnev to choose torture for himself.
Brezhnev looks into one room - there is Stalin in a bath with boiling water, then he sees Hitler, hanging upside down over the fire.
Then he sees Khrushchev holding Marilyn Monroe on his lap.
"Oh," says Brezhnev. “I choose the same torture as Khrushchev!”
Devil: “Unfortunately, Brezhnev, it is not Khrushchev who is being tortured here. This is torture for Marilyn Monroe.”

This category has been developed in many different variants:
Barack Obama dies and immediately goes to hell. The devil greets him joyfully, but explains:
"I don't know what to do with you here.
You're on my list, but I don't have room for you.
You should definitely stay here, so I'll explain what I'll do.
Several other people, not as bad as you, went to hell. I'll let one of them go to heaven. You will take his place, but I will let you choose which one.”
Satisfied with this situation, Obama goes to choose.
Opens the first room - there is Ted Kennedy ["Democratic Icon"] trying to get something from the bottom of the pool.
Time after time he dives under the water, but each time he comes up empty-handed.
This is his fate in hell.
"No," says Obama. "I don't think it's right for me. I'm not a very good swimmer, and I don't think I can dive for forever."
The devil leads him to the door to the next room.
There are stones everywhere and Al Gore [another famous democrat - Nobel Peace Prize laureate] with a sledgehammer. All he does is rapidly swing the sledgehammer to break the stone. But unable to hit the stone, Horus stops, then again makes a senseless swing. And so all eternity
"No, this is not good. I have a shoulder injury and I will be hysterical if all I can do is try to hit a rock for ages," Obama commented.
The devil opened the third door.
Obama saw Bill Clinton stretched out on the bed, his hands tied above his head, his legs spread out to the sides. Monica Lewinsky is leaning over him, doing what she does best.
Obama looks on in shock and disbelief and finally says, "Yeah, I guess I can handle this."
The devil smiles and says:
"Okay, Monica, you're free to go."
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Longest option:
The politician dies and finds himself in front of the pearly gates of Purgatory.
St. Peter stares at him for a second, runs his finger down the list of names in his book, and finds the name he wants.
“So, you’re a politician...” he pauses.
"Well, yeah, is that a problem?"
"Oh, no, no problem. But we just adopted a new system for evaluating people of your profile, and unfortunately, you will have to spend a day in hell. After that, however, you are free to choose where you want to spend the rest of eternity." .
"Wait, do I have to spend a day in hell?" - the politician is trying to start an argument.
“These are the rules,” St. Peter sums up, snaps his fingers, the guy disappears... And he wakes up, curled up in fear and covering his eyes with his hands, realizing that he will now see all the horrors of Hell that he was warned about in earthly life.
But he doesn’t hear any of the expected screams of pain and doesn’t smell the sulfur.
On the contrary, it seems to smell like freshly cut grass or an apple with mint.
"Open your eyes!" - he hears a good-natured voice, - “Don’t be afraid, get up, get up, we only have 24 hours.”

With fear, he opens his eyes, looks around and sees that he is in a huge hotel room.
Everything looks amazing - the furniture, the ceilings, the lighting.
Wait, this is a penthouse...
Opposite, a smiling man in a smart suit is sipping a martini.
"Who are you?" asks the politician.
“Mmmm, I’m Satan. That’s how it is,” says the man, handing him a martini and helping him stand up, “Welcome to hell!”
"Wait, is this hell? But... Where is all the pain and suffering?"
Satan looks at him reproachfully:
"Oh, this place has been a little misbranded over the years. It's a long story. Bad marketing, gossip and slander.
Either way, this is your number now! The minibar is of course free. Extra towels next to the hot tub. If you need anything, any little thing, just call the maid. But enough about that! It's a beautiful day, and if you're interested in taking a look at what's outside..."

Stunned by the luxurious surroundings, the politician approaches the floor-to-ceiling windows, into which the dazzling sun shines, sees a huge golf course below, and a little to the side the sea.
A group of people is standing on the field and waving to him friendly.
Satan explains:
"A short drive to the beach and harbor. If necessary, there is a yacht waiting for you there"
The politician gets dressed and, descending in a transparent elevator, passes through the sparkling lobby, where everyone is greeted and Satan signs autographs and jokes with the staff.
On the golf course are all his friends who have passed away, as well as people whom the politician admired all his life but never met (their careers ended long before he entered politics).
His deceased wife separates from the group, but with the figure that she had at 20 years old.
She smiles and throws herself on his neck.
Everyone rejoices and applauds, pats him on the back and makes friendly jokes.
He spends the day in the bright sunshine, talking about interesting topics, exchanging jokes. And his wife, who admires him, is always nearby.
Later they return to the hotel, where for dinner they find themselves in a restaurant with gourmet food and Gandhi (telling about the truth) with Marilyn Monroe for company).
They laugh, they drink, the wife whispers something in her ear... they return to their penthouse and spend the rest of the night making love as fiercely as they ever did on their honeymoon.

After 6 hours of passion, a person falls on Egyptian 100% cotton pillows and falls asleep completely happy...

And wakes up next to Saint Peter.
"So you spent 24 hours in hell. I'm sure it wasn't what you expected?"
"It was truly amazing!" says the man.
“So,” says St. Peter, “Now you can make your choice. Where do you want to spend the rest of eternity - in Hell, where you just visited, or in Heaven, where there is wonderful choral singing, where you can talk to God , all the people in white clothes, and so on."
“Well... I know this will sound strange, but I think I'd prefer hell,” says the politician.
"No problem. We completely understand and accept your choice! Enjoy!" St. Peter says and snaps his fingers again.
A man wakes up in complete darkness, the stench of ammonia fills the air, around in the darkness there is a terrible squeal, scream and moan.
He sees in the glow of the flames people unsuccessfully trying to swim out of the huge sulfur ocean.
Suddenly lightning illuminates Satan next to him.
He wears the same suit as before, but now he grins evilly, and in his hands he has a soldering iron and a roll of barbed wire.
"What is this??" - the politician shouts, trembling. He is crying.
"Where is the hotel?? Where is my wife??? Where is the minibar, golf courses, swimming pool, restaurant, Gandhi and sunshine???"
“Ah,” says Satan. "Yesterday you watched the election campaign. But today, you have already voted..."

One of the last options for the first category of jokes:
The Little Russian is sitting in a hut, there is little gas, little money, his wife has to earn extra money as a whore in Russia.
Complete hopelessness. Suddenly Satan appears in the middle of the hut: “I help all the desperate, I give you the opportunity to make two wishes: for yourself and for your wife.”
The Little Russian jumped up with joy and answered:
“I want the gas to disappear from Muscovites.”
Satan:
“Are you sure you made the right choice? After all, you will become even poorer? Is that better?
The crest replies: “Better, because the Muscovite will get worse.”
No sooner said than done. Gas disappeared in Russia, and then in Ukraine. The Little Russian became even poorer.
- Make a second wish now, just don’t get it wrong. - says Satan.
“I want all Muscovites’ wives to start working as prostitutes.” May it be as bad for them as it was for me.
- Eh, you shouldn’t be doing that. After all, now you will become even poorer, your wife may be kicked out of work because of competition.
— Nothing, but it’s worse for Muscovites.
No sooner said than done. All Russian wives became prostitutes.
Satan has disappeared, the Little Russian sits alone in the hut, saddened.
I missed this opportunity and became even poorer. What should I tell my wife now?
My wife came.
- Honey, I have bad and good news.
- Let's go with the bad ones.
“Muscovites’ gas has disappeared and your virtues have become cheaper.”
- So we are even poorer now. Well, give me good news, don't disappoint.
— Muscovites have lost their gas.

“God is in the details,” but also: “The devil is in the details.” Both expressions seem very old. When did they appear and who was here first - God or the devil?

There used to be a God, although “before” does not mean “a very long time ago.” The expression “God is in the details” was created in the 20th century. It appeared in print no later than 1937, with reference to the German historian and art theorist Aby Warburg.
Aby Warburg (born Abraham Moritz) (1866–1929) devoted much of his life to the study of the Italian Renaissance. Almost 30 years after Warburg's death, his closest collaborator Gertrude Bing quoted the words that he once wrote about himself in his favorite Italian: “Ebreo di sangue, Amburghese di cuore, d'anima Fiorentino” - “Jew by blood, Hamburger by heart.” , a Florentine at heart.”
Since 1925, Warburg taught a seminar on Italian art at the University of Hamburg. An interdisciplinary approach dominated here, involving the study of the artist’s contemporary rituals, symbols, language, philosophy and even natural sciences. According to Ernst Gombrich, a student of Warburg, the motto of the seminar was:

Der liebe Gott stack im Detail.
(God is in the details.)

The French version is better known: “Le bon Dieu est dans les détails” - “God is in the details.” The German art critic Erwin Panofsky groundlessly attributed these words to Gustave Flaubert (in the book The Meaning and Interpretation of Fine Art, 1955).
In 1922, three years before Warburg's first seminar, Boris Pasternak's poem "Let's drop words...", written in 1917, was published. It ended with the lines:

You ask, who is in charge?
– Almighty god of details,
Almighty god of love,
Jagilov and Jadwig.

I don't know if it's resolved
The riddle of the afterlife,
But life is like silence
Autumn - detailed.

Of course, Pasternak’s “god of details” is not the same as Warburg’s “God in details.”

A distant prototype of Warburg’s motto can perhaps be considered the statement of Pliny the Elder: “The nature of things is expressed in nothing so fully as in the smallest (...nusquam magis quam in minimis, tota est)” (“Natural History”, XI, 2, 4).

Such is the case with “God is in the Details”; what can we say about the devil? The expression “The devil (is) in the details” (German: “Der Teufel steckt im Detail”) has been widely used since the 1960s.

The saying “God is in the details” is most often found in works on the history and theory of art, when they want to emphasize the importance of studying the totality of facts. The meaning of the formula “The devil is in the details” is that something that appears good at first glance may not be so good upon closer examination.

The scope of application of the second maxim is wider, which is why it has become the main one.

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So let's continue, who said The devil is in the details Wikipedia provides too little information on this matter. The origin of this saying is rooted in the history of France and Germany, where exactly this phrase was first uttered is unknown today. Then the saying went like this: " God is in the details and the devil is in the extremes".

The devil is in the details- means that you should not trust the first impression, it is often deceptive. However, there is no need to go to extremes, and act with frenzy, this is not at all like God

Who is the Devil in religion?

The devil is in the details- means that no matter how much you want to plan everything, some little thing can ruin your whole cunning plan

After a while, this proverb found its way into the English language." The devil is in the details", and most likely it was this option that later appeared in the Russian language.

In general, neglecting the little things is completely unforgivable, since the whole reality around us consists of little things.

Dear reader, you still have a question, who said the devil is in the details? The first recorded evidence dates back to 1969, when the saying was published in the New York Times by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, a German architect.
Although researchers claim that its author is another German, named Warburg Abi, a German art historian and cultural critic (June 13, 1866, Hamburg - October 26, 1929).

Some will wonder why The devil is in the details and not say Carlson, who lives on the roof or the Cheshire cat? Yes, because the Devil has a strong intellect, he is cunning and cunning. All he actually does is play with human destinies. People for the most part are lazy, gullible and stupid; they are bored with learning about the world around them, because for this they need to strain their “gray matter”. Therefore, a person without hesitation trusts charlatans, newspapers, television, neighbors, friends, acquaintances, etc.
The Chinese have a similar saying " catch the little devil and he will lead you to his main thing".