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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: puborectalis who wrote (715010)	11/24/2005 5:07:43 PM
From: Geoff Altman	Respond to of 769670

Did I stutter? My mistake was it wasn't at the UN Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev famously used an expression generally translated into English as "We will bury you!" ("?? ??? ?????????!", or "My vas pokhoronim!") while addressing Western ambassadors at reception in Moscow in November, 1956. [1] The translation has been controversial by being presented as belligerent out of context. The phrase may well have been intended to suggest "we will outlast you" as a more complete version of the quote reads: "Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you" - a meaning more akin to "we will attend your funeral" than "we shall cause your funeral". Several online sources incorrectly claim that he made this statement at the United Nations General Assembly on October 11, 1960, when he is said to have pounded the table with his shoe (or with an extra shoe he had brought with him explicitly for that purpose). [2] (Occasionally these incorrect reports give the date October 12, the date this incident was reported in most newspapers.) Speaking some years later in Yugoslavia, Khrushchev himself remarked, "I once said, 'We will bury you,' and I got into trouble with it. Of course we will not bury you with a shovel. Your own working class will bury you" [3], a nod to the popular Marxist saying, "The proletariat is the undertaker of capitalism". The cuban missle crisis wasn't until 1962