What is sabotage?

Sabotage. What does this word mean, how did it come about in Russian?

Sabotage is a foreign language, came to Russian from French: fr. sabotage from saboter - pounding with a shoe.

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Even under feudalism, the French millers,dissatisfied with the conditions of work, their payment, stopped the mill with their shoes in protest, which prevented her from grinding flour further. It was a kind of protest.

The concept of

What is sabotage? This is a deliberate evasion of the performance of their work duties, counteraction to anything, manifested in both an open form and hidden, when the appearance of work is created, but in fact people do not fulfill their duties.

This form of protest is not new in the history of Russia. But especially fiercely fought with sabotage in Soviet Russia, when the formation of Soviet power was taking place. Many experts of the Tsarist era, apparently agreeing to work for a new government, in fact, were engaged in sabotage: they broke plans of work, created conditions for the production of defective products, and sometimes openly opposed the new government.

World and Russian history knows many examples of sabotage caused by various reasons - from economic to political.

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