Khrushchev's bury remark

[Andrew Jameson]

Dushenko, Slovar' Sovr. Tsitat, M., Agraf, 1997 says:

s.387, X No. 90
90 *My vas zakopaem.
Iz besedy Khrushcheva s amerikanskimi diplomatami 18 noyab. 1956
na prieme v Moskve v chest' V. Gomulki; povtoreno na odnoi iz vstrech
s zhurnalistami v SShA v sent. 1959. V "Oksfordskom slovare
sovremennykh tsitat" (1991) delaetsya ssylka na "Times" ot 19 noyab.
1956; no, soglasno "Slovaryu khodyachikh tsitat Bartleta" (1992), takogo
vyskazyvaniya v "Times" ne bylo.
Veroyatno, "My vas zakopaem" - obratnyi perevod s angliiskogo frazy
"We will bury you" ("My vas pokhoronim"). Khrushchev, vprochem, govoril
i o "zakapyvanii" kapitalizma: "Kak govorili krasnoarmeitsy vo vremya
grazhdanskoi voiny: s belymi u nas odin spornyi vopros (...) - eto zemel'nyi
vopros (...) Kto kogo zakopaet ran'she (...) U nas s kapitalizmom takoi
zhe vopros" (rech' na plenume TsK 21 iyunya 1963).

*(zvezdochka) - tsitata poluchila izvestnost' v "nepravil'noi" forme.

Andrew Jameson
Chair, Russian Committee, ALL
Languages and Professional Development
1 Brook Street, Lancaster LA1 1SL UK
Tel: 01524 32371  (+44 1524 32371)

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From: Scott Petersen <rv5s-ptrs at ASAHI-NET.OR.JP>
To: SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU
Subject: Khrushchev's bury remark
Date: 06 May 2000 03:02

Can anyone with this?

I have seen many times that Khrushchev's remark that the Soviet Union would
bury the West was a mistranslation; that he actually said that the SU would
be at the grave of the West, i.e. would outlive the West. Lynn Visson gives
the Russian as "my vas poxoronim" (_From Russian into English_, Ardis
Press).

Is there anywhere that gives more details about this incident? A fuller
quote? The context in which it was said?

TIA.

Scott Petersen

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